ENGLISH LITERATURE
Topic outline
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Below you will find a wide range of resources to support your study of the Poems of the Decade. We have selected a range of unseen poems to go with the prescribed poems, and created a number of videos to take you through the poems. You will also find resources produced by the exam board, a commercially produced guide to the poems and a useful contribution here from a YouTuber whose angle on the poems we think is worth watching.
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A sample question and model answer to remind you what to expect for your timed practice in September 2021, followed by a range of 'unseen' poems with questions put together by the department.
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Produced by our department, a pack of unseen poems paired with the taught poems and questions to go with them.
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You need a pen and copies of the poem, plus headphones.
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Useful notes from the poet herself on her poem. You will need to scroll down a bit.
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The poet Julia Copus (who wrote 'An Easy Passage') talks to Daljit Nagra about his poem.
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Juliet Harrison walks you through some approaches to this poem from the 'Poems of the Decade' anthology.
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Note 'The Duration' is an unseen poem, not a taught poem. This video will help you with the poem and then sets up links you might make with one of our taught poems 'History' by John Burnside
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This tutorial is on an unseen poem, not a taught poem, that is then compared to 'Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn'