A full set of study guides for each poem in the CAIE / Cambridge IGCSE Poetry collection: Songs of Ourselves, Volume 1, Part 4 (2023-25).

If you’re looking for the other IGCSE poetry collection, CLICK HERE.

There are also tasks, exercises, themes and essay questions that are tailored towards helping students achieve the very highest level!

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POEMS INCLUDED:

‘A Consumers Report’ - Peter Porter
‘Away, Melancholy’ - Stevie Smith
From ‘Long Distance II’ - Tony Harrison
‘Funeral Blues’ - W.H. Auden
‘He Never Expected Much’ - Thomas Hardy
‘Night Sweat’ - Robert Lowell
‘On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book’ - Charles Tennyson Turner
‘Ozymandias’ - Percy Bysshe Shelley
‘Request to a Year’ - Judith Wright
‘The City Planners’ - Margaret Atwood
‘The Man with Night Sweats’ - Thom Gunn
‘The Planners’ - Boey Kim Cheng
‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’ - Anne Stevenson
‘The Telephone Call’ - Fleur Adcock
‘Rain’ - Edward Thomas

Each digital pdf, printable pdf, PowerPoint (ppt) + worksheet resource includes:

  • VOCABULARY
  • STORY / SUMMARY
  • SPEAKER / VOICE
  • ATTITUDES
  • LANGUAGE FEATURES
  • STRUCTURE / FORM
  • CONTEXT
  • THEMES
  • TASKS AND EXERCISES
  • POSSIBLE ESSAY QUESTIONS

BONUS MATERIAL:

How To Write Essays and Understand the Mark Scheme
‘The Planners’ - Poetry Essay (B-A Grade L6-L7)
Ozymandias + Power: Example A/L7 Grade GCSE/IGCSE Essay*

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Lots of really useful and well organised information, with tasks for the students to do and good explanations. Thank you!

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