Stuck on poetry?
This course gives you a full breakdown of the poems in the 2023-2025 CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE and O Level Poetry Anthology (Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2, Part 4).
Enroll today to access engaging video content, plus a downloadable PDF study guide for each poem covering the following topics:
- VOCABULARY
- STORY / SUMMARY
- SPEAKER / VOICE
- ATTITUDES
- LANGUAGE FEATURES
- FORM / STRUCTURE
- CONTEXT
- THEMES
You will also receive:
- A / A* GRADE EXAMPLE ANSWERS
- EXAM STYLE PRACTISE QUESTIONS
Still not sure? Take a look at these free previews from the course:
You can also purchase individual documents from the Cambridge IGCSE Poetry Course.
This is a great option if you don't require everything in the complete course.
Course Curriculum
Video Lessons
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- How to Write Essays & Understand the Mark Scheme (18:17)
- 'After' - Philip Bourke Marston (9:20)
- 'I hear an Army' - James Joyce (12:32)
- 'Rhyme of the Dead Self' - A.R.D. Fairburn (15:28)
- 'Rooms' - Charlotte Mew (16:45)
- 'Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples' - Percy Bysshe Shelley (23:45)
- 'Love in a Life' - Robert Browning (10:32)
- 'Nearing Forty' - Derek Walcott (19:52)
- 'Waterfall' - Lauris Dorothy Edmond (13:51)
- 'Verses Written on Her Deathbed at Bath to Her Husband in London' - Mary Monck 'Marinda' (12:44)
- 'A Leave-Taking' - Algernon Charles Swisburne (21:25)
- From 'An Essay on Criticism' - Alexander Pope (21:49)
- 'The Forsaken Wife' - Elizabeth Thomas (10:42)
- 'The Character of a Happy Life' - Henry Wotton (19:08)
- 'I Find no Peace' - Sir Thomas Wyatt (14:23)
- 'Now Let No Charitable Hope' - Elinor Morton Wylie (11:28)
Poem Analysis (PDF)
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- 'After' - Philip Bourke Marston
- 'I Hear an Army' - James Joyce
- 'Rhyme of the Dead Self' - A.R.D. Fairburn
- 'Rooms' - Charlotte Mew
- 'Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples' - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 'Love in a Life' - Robert Browning
- 'Nearing Forty' - Derek Walcott
- 'Waterfall' - Lauris Dorothy Edmond
- 'Verses Written on Her Death-bed at Bath to Her Husband in London' - Mary Monck 'Marinda'
- 'A Leave-Taking' - Algernon Charles Swisburne
- 'From An Essay on Criticism' - Alexander Pope
- 'The Forsaken Wife' - Elizabeth Thomas
- 'The Character of a Happy Life' - Henry Wotton
- 'I Find no Peace' - Sir Thomas Wyatt
- 'Now Let No Charitable Hope' - Elinor Morton Wylie
BONUS MATERIAL:
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