Stuck on poetry?
This course gives you a full breakdown of the poems in the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4).
Enroll today for access to video lessons and comprehensive PDF study guides for each poem covering the following topics:
- VOCABULARY
- STORY / SUMMARY
- SPEAKER / VOICE
- ATTITUDES
- LANGUAGE FEATURES
- FORM / STRUCTURE
- CONTEXT
- THEMES
- POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS
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EXTRA TASKS
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.
You can also purchase individual documents from the Cambridge IGCSE Poetry Course.
This is a great option if you don't require everything in the complete course.
Course Curriculum
Video Lessons
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- How to Write Essays & Understand the Mark Scheme (18:17)
- 'A Consumer's Report' - Peter Porter (26:54)
- 'Away, Melancholy' - Stevie Smith (18:32)
- From 'Long Distance II' - Tony Harrison (15:39)
- 'Funeral Blues' - W H Auden (13:04)
- 'He Never Expected Much' - Thomas Hardy (14:18)
- 'Night Sweat' - Robert Lowell (19:39)
- 'On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book' - Charles Tennyson Turner (20:23)
- 'Ozymandias' - Percy Bysshe Shelley (25:20)
- 'Request To A Year' - Judith Wright (17:13)
- 'The City Planners' - Margaret Atwood (16:11)
- 'The Man with Night Sweats' - Thom Gunn (14:41)
- 'The Planners' - Boey Kim Cheng (16:29)
- 'The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument' - Anne Stevenson (13:53)
- 'The Telephone Call' - Fleur Adcock (21:38)
- 'Rain' - Edward Thomas (20:58)
Downloadable PDF Lessons
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- A Consumers Report - Peter Porter
- Away Melancholy - Stevie Smith
- from Long Distance II - Tony Harrison
- Funeral Blues - W H Auden
- He Never Expected Much - Thomas Hardy
- Night Sweat - Robert Lowell
- On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book - Charles Tennyson Turner
- Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Request To A Year - Judith Wright
- The City Planners - Margaret Atwood
- The Man with Night Sweats - Thom Gunn
- The Planners - Boey Kim Cheng
- The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument - Anne Stevenson
- The Telephone Call - Fleur Adcock
- 'Rain' - Edward Thomas
BONUS Material
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