CIE English Lit Poetry Songs of Ourselves Pt 4

Full lessons/powerpoints on all 15 poems for CIE Poetry Unit Songs of Ourselves Part 4, examination 2023 (full list of poems below). Starter activities and focus on close annotation - good for teaching or revision.

1. The City Planners – Margaret Atwood
2. The Planners – Boey Kim Cheng
3. The Man with Night Sweats – Thom Gunn
4. Night Sweat – Robert Lowell
5. Rain – Edward Thomas
6. The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument – Anne Stevenson
7. From Long Distance – Tony Harrison
8. Funeral Blues – W H Auden
9. He Never Expected Much – Thomas Hardy
10. The Telephone Call – Fleur Adcock
11. A Consumer’s Report – Peter Porter
12. Request to a Year – Judith Wright
13. On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book – Charles Tennyson Turner
14. Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley
15. Away, Melancholy – Stevie Smith