Philip Larkin A Level Revision Pack

This is a condensed revision pack that covers all of the key material needed to succeed in the Philip Larkin portion of the A-Level exam (tailored to Edexcel, but the information is widely applicable).

This pack will walk students step-by-step through what they need to do to revise for their Larkin exam.

This pack includes:
• Key Vocabulary
• A list of key vocabulary that can be used to dissect the poems, broken down by theme and covering the breadth of Larkin’s work. Allows students to enhance their essay writing with higher level language.
Understanding the Poems
• Poem Groupings: Poems grouped by theme and date.
• Essential Arguments: A breakdown of Larkin’s essential arguments put forward in regards to age and decay; routine, repetition and responsibility; cycles and rhythms; memory and nostalgia; boredom and disenchantment; love, loss and longing; home and roots; departures and absences; corruption and disease
Argument and Style
• Literary Influences: A breakdown of all his major allusions and intertexts.
• What is Larkin’s point? Sentence stems organised by argument, breaks down his key arguments and how they are posed.
• Craft: Sentence stems organised by theme that allow for in depth exploration of Larkin’s craft, compares to their wider body of work and The Movement.
• Key Context: All of the overarching key context that relates Larkin’s poetry, dual coded and organised into a grid.

Exam Technique
• How to Approach an Exam-Style Question
• What if I Need Support? How to Break Down a Poem