A Wife in London - Analysis

An analytical lesson on Thomas Hardy's 'A Wife in London' for 14-16 year olds. Suitable for any GCSE syllabus, this lesson offers contextual and linguistic lenses through which to read the poem. Students work in pairs to explode key quotations from the poem, then pass their work to another pair who will develop it with new contextual information on 'the London fog' and Hardy's relationship with feminism. Students will then answer an analytical question on the poem, with the support of a model answer which can be printed off, annotated or deconstructed as a group.