Struggling with your poetry?
This course gives you a full breakdown of the poems in the CAIE / Cambridge A Level Poetry Anthology for 2024.
(Songs of Ourselves: Volume 2, Paper 2, Section B Poetry)Â
Access video lessons + downloadable PDF study guides for each poem!
Each poem study guide covers the following topics:
- VOCABULARY
- STORY / SUMMARY
- SPEAKER / VOICE
- ATTITUDES /MESSAGES
- LANGUAGE FEATURES
- FORM / STRUCTURE
- CONTEXT
- THEMES AND IDEAS
- POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS
- TASKS AND EXERCISES
Each study guide is a fully illustrated, downloadable PDF. Perfect for reading on a smartphone, tablet or a computer.
Plus you can watch a video lesson taught by Natasha that will help you get to grips with each and every poem.
Still not sure? You can watch a free preview video below.
You can also purchase individual documents from the course here:
Course Curriculum
Video Lessons
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- 'Winter Song' - Elizabeth Tollet (13:00)
- 'The Storm Wind' - William Barnes (13:39)
- 'The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean' - Robinson Jeffers (21:17)
- 'The Spring' - Thomas Carew (10:07)
- 'The Sea and The Hills' - Rudyard Kipling (17:22)
- 'The Hour is Come' - Louisa Lawson (7:34)
- 'The Darkling Thrush' - Thomas Hardy (19:18)
- 'Stabat Mater' - Sam Hunt (10:55)
- 'Renouncement' - Alice Meynell (22:13)
- 'Surplus Value' - David C Ward (17:50)
- 'Love (III)' - George Herbert (15:34)
- 'Eel Tail' - Alice Oswald (17:26)
- 'Description of Spring' - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (19:37)
- 'Australia 1970' - Judith Wright (19:41)
- 'An Afternoon Nap' - Arthur Yap (17:23)
- 'A long journey' - Musaemura Zimunya (17:45)
- 'Blessing' - Imitiaz Dharker (14:41)
- 'The Buck in the Snow' - Edna St Vincent Millay (18:49)
- 'Father Returning Home' - Dilip Chitre (14:30)
- From 'Fears in Solitude' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (25:31)
- 'Growing Old' - Mathew Arnold (25:45)
- 'In the Park' - Gwen Harwood (15:38)
- 'I hear an Army' - James Joyce (12:32)
- 'Passion' - Kathleen Raine (16:11)
- 'She was a Phantom of Delight' - William Wordsworth (15:39)
- 'The Clod and The Pebble' - William Blake (18:40)
- 'The Lost Woman' - Patricia Beer (21:08)
- 'The Road' - Nancy Fotheringham Cato (16:35)
- 'Who in One Lifetime' - Muriel Rukeyser (16:00)
- From 'The Complaints of Poverty' - Nicholas James (18:12)
PDF Study Guides
Available in
days
days
after you enroll
- 'Winter Song' - Elizabeth Tollet
- 'The Storm-Wind' - William Barnes
- 'The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean' - Robinson Jeffers
- 'The Spring' - Thomas Carew
- 'The Sea and the Hills' - Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Hour is Come' - Louisa Lawson
- 'The Darkling Thrush' - Thomas Hardy
- 'Surplus Value' - David C Ward
- 'Stabat Mater' - Sam Hunt
- 'Renouncement' - Alice Meynell
- 'Love (III)' - George Herbert
- 'Eel Tail' - Alice Oswald
- 'Description of Spring' - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
- 'Australia 1970' - Judith Wright
- 'An Afternoon Nap' - Arthur Yap
- 'A Long Journey' - Musaemura Zimunya
- 'Blessing' - Imitiaz Dharker
- 'Buck in the Snow' - Edna St Vincent Millay
- 'Father Returning Home' - Dilip Chitre
- From 'Fears in Soltitude' - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- From 'The Complaints of Poverty' - Nicholas James
- 'Growing Old' - Mathew Arnold
- 'In the Park' - Gwen Harwood
- 'I hear an Army' - James Joyce
- 'Passion' - Kathleen Raine
- 'She was a Phantom of Delight' - William Wordsworth
- 'The Clod and the Pebble' - William Blake
- 'The Lost Woman' - Patricia Beer
- 'The Road' - Nancy Fotheringam Cato
- 'Who in One Lifetime' - Muriel Rukeyser