A detailed exploration of Shelley’s iconic sonnet on the impermanence of power, packed with activities on irony, symbolism, and historical context. Students will analyse Shelley’s portrayal of a decayed statue and examine how the poem critiques human arrogance and power.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
This resource focuses on family bonds and admiration. Students analyse Waterhouse’s extended metaphor of climbing, exploring themes of discovery, trust, and the deep connection between grandparent and grandchild.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
An exploration of Agard’s challenge to colonial history, with tasks on dialect, rhythm, and cultural identity. Students will analyse Agard’s use of contrast and repetition to emphasize the importance of reclaiming one’s own history.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
This worksheet explores the theme of connection over distance. Students analyse Dooley’s use of everyday imagery, enjambment, and sensory language to depict the comfort and warmth of long-distance communication.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
Students explore Heaney’s depiction of nature’s force and human vulnerability. Activities focus on Heaney’s use of metaphor, structure, and tone, as well as the poem’s themes of isolation and resilience.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
A study of Hardy’s melancholy take on love and disappointment. This worksheet includes tasks on tone, imagery, and Hardy’s use of contrasting colours to reflect the bitterness of a relationship that has gone cold.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
This worksheet covers themes of independence and family ties. Students analyse Armitage’s use of metaphor and enjambment to convey the complex emotions involved in leaving home and growing up.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual
understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
This worksheet guides students through Blake’s powerful social commentary on London’s oppression. Activities cover key themes like corruption and suffering, poetic devices such as repetition and irony, and context on the Industrial Revolution and Blake’s own beliefs.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
Walking Away by Cecil Day-Lewis - GCSE Poetry Revision Worksheet
This worksheet helps students explore the theme of parental love and letting go. Activities focus on Day-Lewis’s use of metaphor and gentle tone, capturing the bittersweet emotions of seeing a child grow up.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
A lively exploration of love, culture, and humour, this worksheet examines Nagra’s playful use of language, cultural dialect, and repetition to portray a young man’s joyful, yet challenging, married life.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
This worksheet explores reconciliation and unity in relationships. Activities cover Sheers’ use of natural symbolism, contrast, and tone to depict a couple finding harmony amidst conflict.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
Exploring Duffy’s critique of the media, this worksheet helps students analyse themes of detachment and ethical responsibility. Activities focus on language techniques like contrast and juxtaposition, as well as the moral questions raised in the poem.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
This worksheet examines Shelley’s romantic appeals and arguments for love. Students explore persuasive techniques, natural imagery, and themes of longing and unity in this philosophical take on love.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
Focusing on possessiveness and obsession, this worksheet covers Browning’s dramatic monologue style. Students analyse themes of love, power, and violence, as well as Browning’s use of irony and symbolism.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
Focusing on an extract from Wordsworth’s epic poem, this resource examines the awe-inspiring power of nature. With exercises on personification, imagery, and the Romantic ideals, students can explore how Wordsworth conveys fear and reverence for nature.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
A gripping look at the chaos of battle, this worksheet covers Hughes’ portrayal of fear and instinct. Students analyse Hughes’ use of similes and enjambment, and examine the dehumanizing effects of war on the individual.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
Focusing on unrequited love and loneliness, this worksheet examines Mew’s use of rural imagery and dialect. Activities cover the psychological depth of the poem and the complex dynamics of the farmer’s relationship with his wife.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.
Poppies by Jane Weir - GCSE Poetry Revision Workbook
A reflection on loss and memory, this resource guides students through Weir’s use of imagery and symbolism. Students analyse the emotional perspective of a mother grieving a son, and explore themes of sacrifice and remembrance.
This GCSE revision workbook includes
Summary of poem
Exercise 1
Vocabulary list
Thematic Connections
Language and Structure
Poetic Techniques:
Structure and Form:
Context
Memorable Quotes
Questions (x3)
Exercise 2:
The Poem
This workbook emphasises key themes, language analysis, and contextual understanding to support students’ comprehension and exam preparation. It is designed to encourage critical thinking and engagement with the language techniques and poetic forms used across GCSE Poetry examinations.
It can be printed or used digitally, allowing students to build their skills and confidence with unseen poetry through structured, guided practice.