GCSE English Lit Poetry 'Love & Relationships' Anthology, Notes, Example Answers

Includes all 15 poems:

- When We Two Parted – Lord Byron

- Love’s Philosphy – Percy Bysshe Shelley

- Porphyria’s Lover – Robert Browning

- Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

- Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy

- Letters from Yorkshire – Maura Dooley

- The Farmer’s Bride – Charlotte Mew

- Walking Away – Cecil Day-Lewis

- Eden Rock – Charles Causey

- Follower – Seamus Heaney

- Mother, any distance – Simon Armitage

- Before You Were Mine – Carol Ann Duffy

- Winter Swans – Owen Sheers

- Singh Song! – Daljit Nagra

- Climbing My Grandfather – Andrew Waterhouse

 

and example answers to exam questions:

- Compare how the poets present romantic love in 'When We Two Parted' and 'Love's Philosophy'.

- Compare how poets present romantic love in 'Sonnet 29' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and in one other poem from 'Love and relationships'.