Interpreture’s Edexcel Relationships Poetry GCSE Revision notes are an important resource for students studying the Relationships Anthology for their English Literature GCSE course.
This is a relatively new course – the first examinations took place in June 2017.
Prescribed Poems in the Relationship Anthology
Interpreture is in the process of posting analysis on the poems included in the three Edexcel GCSE Anthologies. The list below identifies the 15 poems from the Relationships Anthology.
Relationships Anthology
Romantic:
- John Keats – “La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad”
- Joanna Baillie – “A Child to his Sick Grandfather”
- George Gordon, Lord Byron – “She Walks in Beauty”
- William Wordsworth – “A Complaint”
Literary Heritage:
- Thomas Hardy – “Neutral Tones”
- Robert Browning – “My Last Duchess”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning – “Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Contemporary:
- Wendy Cope – “1st Date – She & 1st Date – He”
- Carol Ann Duffy – “Valentine”
- Elizabeth Jennings – “One Flesh” (A Level-standard analysis)
- John Cooper Clarke – “i wanna be yours”
- Jen Hatfield – “Love’s Dog”
- Vernon Scannell – “Nettles”
- Simon Armitage – “The Manhunt (Laura’s Poem)”
- Ingrid de Kok – “My Father Would Not Show Us”
Our ultimate aim is to provide analysis on all prescribed poems, so please bear with us if we haven’t posted the poem you’re looking for at the moment. Hopefully, those that we have reviewed will be helpful.
Edexcel GCSE Poetry Revision
Interpreture presents four pages to assist students revising for the poetry element of the Edexcel GCSE English Literature examination.
The overarching introduction Edexcel GCSE Poetry Revison page provides an overview of the course, the requirements of the final examination and the expected outcomes for students.
This is, in turn, supported by three separate pages (including this one) each detailing one of the three specified poetry anthologies included in the course:
- Relationships;
- Conflict; and
- Time and Place.
Each collection contains 15 poems and includes Romantic, Literary Heritage and Contemporary poetry. Your teacher or school will have selected an anthology out of these three which you will study and answer questions on in your exam. See more at the Edexcel website.
Good luck with your Edexcel Relationships Poetry – GCSE Revision!