Welcome to all! Student, parent and fellow teachers!
Students - please introduce yourself and rate your confidence in poetry comparison as follows:
- I've read the poems but need some help in comparing them
- I've not read all of the poems yet
- I haven't read any of the poems yet
Use this template:
Hi, I'm _____________ . I'm in Year ___ . I rate myself ___
Just to check you're in the right place - this is a community for students, teachers, parents and poetry fans who follow the IGCSE Pearson Edexcel English Literature syllabus. These are the poems we will cover:
📜 Edexcel IGCSE Poetry Anthology – Complete Poem List
- If— – Rudyard Kipling
- Prayer Before Birth – Louis MacNeice
- Blessing – Imtiaz Dharker
- Search For My Tongue – Sujata Bhatt
- Half-past Two – U.A. Fanthorpe
- Piano – D.H. Lawrence
- Hide and Seek – Vernon Scannell
- Sonnet 116 – William Shakespeare
- La Belle Dame sans Merci – John Keats
- Poem at Thirty-Nine – Alice Walker
- War Photographer – Carol Ann Duffy
- The Tyger – William Blake
- My Last Duchess – Robert Browning
- Half-caste – John Agard
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night – Dylan Thomas
- Remember – Christina Rossetti