Conflict Poetry Anthology Workbook: Questions for Analysis / Context (CCEA GCSE English Literature)

This detailed 34 page document is developed to assist both pupils and teachers in their understanding of the CCEA GCSE Conflict Poetry anthology, while guiding them towards a detailed analysis.

For each of the 15 poems in the anthology, there are detailed questions that prompt critical stanza-by-stanza and line-by-line analysis from pupils. Each set of questions enables pupils to focus on identifying and analysing poetic methods (AO2) and strengthening their understanding of each poem.

Also included in the document-
-specific contextual information for each poem (AO4)
-specific themes for each poem to assist in connections between poems (AO3)
-further prompt questions to analyse specific poetic devices (AO2).

Poems:

• The Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
• Vitai Lampada (Henry Newbolt)
• The Man He Killed (Thomas Hardy)
• Who’s for the Game? (Jessie Pope)
• Easter Monday (In Memoriam E.T.)(1917) (Eleanor Farjeon)
• Anthem for Doomed Youth (Wilfred Owen)
• An Irish Airman Foresees his Death (W B Yeats)
• What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
• Vergissmeinnicht (Keith Douglas)
• Bayonet Charge (Ted Hughes)
• Requiem for the Croppies (Seamus Heaney)
• Mametz Wood (Owen Sheers)
• Last Post (Carol Ann Duffy)
• Poppies (Jane Weir)
• Out of the Blue (Simon Armitage)