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).
If you're looking for our Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2, Part 4 course, you can click here.
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.
What's included?
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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