Poetry Anthology (WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Literature): Exam Questions

Read the poem below, London, by William Blake.

London is a poem about a place. How does William Blake present this place in the poem? Refer to the contexts of the poem in your answer.

The poems you have studied are:

The Manhunt by Simon Armitage

Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

London by William Blake

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

Living Space by Imtiaz Dharker

As Imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson

Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove

Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy

A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes

To Autumn by John Keats

Afternoons by Philip Larkin

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers

Excerpt from The Prelude by William Wordsworth

Choose one other poem from the anthology in which the poet also writes about a place.

Compare the way the poet presents the place in your chosen poem with the way William Blake presents the place in London.

In your answer to 7.2 you should:

• compare the content and structure of the poems – what they are about and how they are organised

• compare how the writers create effects, using appropriate terminology where relevant

• compare the contexts of the poems, and how these may have influenced the ideas in them.

Read the poem below, Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen.

Dulce et Decorum Est is a poem about death. How does Wilfred Owen write about death in the poem? Remember to refer to the contexts of the poem in your answer.

The poems you have studied are:

The Manhunt by Simon Armitage

Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

London by William Blake

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

Living Space by Imtiaz Dharker

As Imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson

Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove

Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy

A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes

To Autumn by John Keats

Afternoons by Philip Larkin

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers

Excerpt from The Prelude by William Wordsworth

Choose one other poem from the anthology in which the poet also writes about death.
Compare the way the poet presents death in your chosen poem with the way Wilfred Owen presents death in Dulce et Decorum Est.

In your answer to 7.2 you should:

• compare the content and structure of the poems – what they are about and how they are organised

• compare how the writers create effects, using appropriate terminology where relevant

• compare the contexts of the poems, and how these may have influenced the ideas in them

Read the poem below, A Wife in London, by Thomas Hardy.

A Wife in London is a poem about loss. How does Thomas Hardy present loss in the poem? Remember to refer to the contexts of the poem in your answer.

The poems you have studied are:

The Manhunt by Simon Armitage

Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

London by William Blake

The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron

Living Space by Imtiaz Dharker

As Imperceptibly as Grief by Emily Dickinson

Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove

Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy

A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy

Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney

Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes

To Autumn by John Keats

Afternoons by Philip Larkin

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers

Excerpt from The Prelude by William Wordsworth

Choose one other poem from the anthology in which the poet also writes about loss.

Compare the way the poet presents loss in your chosen poem with the way Thomas Hardy presents loss in A Wife in London.

In your answer to 7.2 you should compare:

• the content and structure of the poems – what they are about and how they are organised

• how the writers create effects, using appropriate terminology where relevant

• the contexts of the poems, and how these may have influenced the ideas in them

Read the poem below, Mametz Wood, by Owen Sheers.

Mametz Wood is a poem about war. How does Owen Sheers present war in the poem? Remember to refer to the contexts of the poem in your answer.

Choose one other poem from the anthology in which the poet also writes about war.

Compare the way the poet presents war in your chosen poem with the way Owen Sheers presents war in Mametz Wood.

In your answer, you should compare:

• the content and structure of the poems – what they are about and how they are organised

• how the writers create effects, using appropriate terminology where relevant

• the contexts of the poems, and how these may have influenced the ideas in them