Love’s Dog by Jen Hadfield

Love’s Dog – Jen Hadfield: GCSE Poetry Lessons

Explore the pleasures and contradictions of love with this two-lesson resource for the Edexcel GCSE English Literature Relationships anthology.

The fully editable PowerPoint includes:

Poet background and clear explanations of the poem
Comprehension questions with example answers
Picture predictions, discussion and storyboard activities
Analysis of language, themes, form and structure
Essay tasks and model responses
Comparison with Sonnet 43, including planning support

Designed to develop GCSE students’ confidence in analysing poetry and writing comparative responses.

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The Manhunt
Sonnet 43
London
The Soldier
Living Space
As Imperceptibly as Grief
Cozy Apologia
A Wife in London
Death of a Naturalist
Hawk Roosting
To Autumn
Afternoons
Dulce et Decorum Est
Excerpt from The Prelude
Mametz Wood
Ozymandias
La Belle Dame sans Merci
A Complaint
1st Date - She and 1st Date - He
Nettles
My Father Would Not Show Us
My Last Duchess
Neutral Tones