Wordsworth and Keats: Exemplar Analysis

Wordsworth and Keats: Exemplar Analysis

William Wordsworth and John Keats explore change through Nature's symbolism in their poetry, focusing on themes of aging and loss, while accepting these transitions. Both authors celebrate the natural cycle of life, using the seasons to illustrate change, highlighting a comforting connection to Nature and a shared spiritual experience among humanity.

Poems of the Decade: Homework Schedule

Poems of the Decade: Homework Schedule

  Week 1: Watch ‘The Deliverer’ A-level Literature Playlist   Week 2: Essay: How is suffering presented within the Poems of the Decade collection? 1000 words Watch ‘Giuseppe’ A-level Literature Playlist   Week 3: Watch ‘Out of the Bag’ A-level Literature Playlist     Week 4: Essay: How is the memory or identity depicted in [...]

Romantic Poetry: Homework Schedule

Romantic Poetry: Homework Schedule

Romanticism: Our home study schedule Week 1: Read ‘Pastoral Poetics’ for William Blake. Highlight and make notes ready for discussion. Read the introduction of The Cambridge Introduction to British Romantic Poetry p1-16 Week 2: Read ‘A few lines written about Tintern Abbey’ ahead of analysis Read and annotate Growth of the Classical in Wordsworth’s Poetry [...]

Poems of the Decade: Coping with Difficulty

Poems of the Decade: Coping with Difficulty

Compare the ways in which poets present people coping with difficulties in ‘Please Hold’ and ‘A Minor Role’   O’Driscoll and Fanthorpe portray a wide sense of people coping with difficulties all throughout both ‘Please Hold’ and ‘A Minor Role’. Both poems interweave a sense of nihilism, time passing and the progressiveness of suffrage. However, [...]