A plan for the question ‘The world is charged with the grandeur of God’ (Gerard Manley Hopkins). Explore the connection between nature and EITHER religious faith OR doubt OR BOTH in any work(s) of Victorian literature.’ This explores these themes - faith and doubt - in Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Goblin Market’. A university (BA English Literature) level plan, but can also be used for A-level English and GCSE.

An essay on the question ‘Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them’ (Kamila Shamsie). Explore the relation between the living and the dead in the work of ONE OR MORE authors on the module.’ Poems discussed include: The Skunk, The Strand at Lough Beg, A Postcard from North Antrim (Field Work elegies); Punishment, Bog Queen (Bog Poems from North) This is a university (BA English) essay, but can be used for GCSE and A-level examples, and includes a bibliography and footnotes.