This revision pack contains detailed analyses of each poem in the CIE A-Level Lit Songs of Ourselves collection, including suggested themes that may form the basis of exam questions. Contents: “If Thou Must Love Me” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning “On the Day of Judgement” - Jonathan Swift “On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year” - Lord Byron “Shirt” - Robert Pinsky “Sleep” - Kenneth Slessor “Sonnet 19” - William Shakespeare “The Cry of the Children” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning “The Death-Bed” - Siegfried Sassoon “The Mountain” - Elizabeth Bishop “The Pains of Sleep” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Pride of Lions” - Joanna Preston “The Song of the Shirt” - Thomas Hood “The Wedding” - Moniza Alvi “Waterfall” - Lauris Dorothy Edmond “When We Two Parted” - Lord Byron “When You Are Old” - W.B. Yeats “Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening” - Charlotte Smith Analysis for each poem includes: VOCABULARY STORY/SUMMARY SPEAKER/VOICE LANGUAGE FORM/STRUCTURE ATTITUDES CONTEXT THEMES

This revision pack contains detailed analyses of each poem in the CIE A-Level Lit Songs of Ourselves collection, including suggested themes that may form the basis of exam questions. Poems included: ‘A Wife in London’ - Thomas Hardy ‘A Complaint’ - William Wordsworth ‘A Song of Faith Forsworn’ - John Warren ‘Darkness’ - Lord Byron ‘Distant Fields / ANZAC Parade’ - Rhian Gallagher ‘Farewell, ungrateful traitor’ - John Dryden ‘First March’ - Ivor Gurney ‘Futility’ - Wilfred Owen ‘Homecoming’ - Lenrie Peters ‘I Years Had Been From Home’ - Emily Dickinson Each resource includes a breakdown of the poem in the following way: VOCABULARY STORY + SUMMARY SPEAKER + VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES ATTITUDES TASKS + EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS For more resources, including the Part 2 bundle, take a look at our shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/ntabani

A complete bundle of study guides for a range of Emily Dickinson’s works. Each guide offers a full breakdown of each poem, including detailed contextual and linguistic analysis, as well as themes that provide basis for exam-style questions. Perfect for teaching and revision! Tailored towards higher level students, including those studying the Cambridge AS + A Level Literature. Teaching or studying Dickinson collection? Have a resource on us! For a limited time ‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’ is completely FREE so you can check whether this bundle is right for you! For PART 2 of this bundle, click here These digital + printable + worksheet resources include: POEM VOCABULARY STORY / SUMMARY SPEAKER / VOICE LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT ATTITUDES THEMES TASKS AND EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS POEMS INCLUDED IN THE BUNDLE: ‘A Bird came down the Walk’ ‘A Murmur in the Trees - to note -’ ‘A narrow Fellow in the Grass’ ‘A Still - Volcano - Life -’ ‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes’ ‘An awful Tempest mashed the air’ ‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ ‘‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers’ ‘I can wade Grief’ ’ I cautious, scanned my little life -’ ‘I did not reach Thee’ ‘I dreaded that first Robin, so, -’ ‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’ ‘I have a Bird in spring’ ‘I have never seen ‘Volcanoes’’ Please review our content! We always value feedback and are looking for ways to improve our resources, so all reviews are more than welcome. VIEW OUR SHOP for other literature and language resources.

A complete bundle of study guides, covering a range of Emily Dickinson’s works. Each guide offers a full breakdown of each poem, including detailed contextual and linguistic analysis, as well as themes that provide basis for exam-style questions. Perfect for teaching and revision! Tailored towards higher level students, including those studying Cambridge AS + A Level Literature. Teaching or studying Dickinson collection? Have a resource on us! For a limited time ‘I felt a Funeral, in my Brain’ is completely FREE so you can check whether this bundle is right for you! For PART 1 of this bundle, click here These digital + printable + worksheet resources include: POEM VOCABULARY STORY / SUMMARY SPEAKER / VOICE LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT ATTITUDES THEMES TASKS AND EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS POEMS INCLUDED IN THE BUNDLE: ‘My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun’ ‘The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants’ ‘The Wind - tapped like a tired Man’ ‘There came a Wind like a Bugle’ ‘There’s a certain Slant of light’ ‘This World is not Conclusion’ '‘Twas the old-road - through pain’ ‘I heard a Fly buzz, when I died’ ‘I measure every Grief I meet’ ‘I’m Nobody! Who are you?’ ‘It was not Death, for I stood up’ ‘One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted’ ‘The Brain - is wider than the Sky’ ‘What mystery pervades a well!’ ‘Whose cheek is this?’ ‘Wild nights! Wild nights!’ Please review our content! We always value feedback and are looking for ways to improve our resources, so all reviews are more than welcome. VIEW OUR SHOP for other literature and language resources.

A full set of study guides for each poem in the CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE Poetry collection: Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4 (2023-25). If you’re looking for the other IGCSE poetry collection, CLICK HERE. There are also tasks, exercises, themes and essay questions that are tailored towards helping students achieve the very highest level! Have a resource on us! Download our From Long Distance II by Tony Harrison - COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE for FREE to see whether these documents are right for you. POEMS INCLUDED: ‘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 Each digital pdf, printable pdf, PowerPoint (ppt) + worksheet resource includes: VOCABULARY STORY / SUMMARY SPEAKER / VOICE ATTITUDES LANGUAGE FEATURES STRUCTURE / FORM CONTEXT THEMES TASKS AND EXERCISES POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS BONUS MATERIAL: How To Write Essays and Understand the Mark Scheme ‘The Planners’ - Poetry Essay (B-A Grade L6-L7) Ozymandias + Power: Example A/L7 Grade GCSE/IGCSE Essay* Please review our content! We always value feedback and are looking for ways to improve our resources, so all reviews are more than welcome. VIEW OUR SHOP for other literature and language resources.