AQA GCSE English Literature – Walking Away by Cecil Day-Lewis | Love & Relationships Poetry Revision

AQA GCSE English Literature – Walking Away by Cecil Day-Lewis | Love & Relationships Poetry Revision Pack

Support students studying Walking Away by Cecil Day-Lewis for AQA GCSE English Literature (8702) with this clear and accessible poetry revision resource.

Walking Away is part of the AQA Love and Relationships poetry anthology and explores powerful ideas surrounding parental love, separation, growing independence and the difficulty of letting go.

This resource is designed to help students develop a stronger understanding of the poem and prepare ideas for AQA GCSE poetry comparison questions.

WHAT DOES THE RESOURCE SUPPORT?

The pack helps students explore key aspects of Walking Away, including:

• Parental love
• Family relationships
• Separation
• Growing up
• Independence
• Letting go
• Memory
• Change
• Nature imagery
• Extended metaphor
• The speaker’s perspective
• Language analysis
• Structural techniques
• Key quotations
• Themes and interpretations

AQA LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS POETRY

This resource is particularly suitable for students studying:

• AQA GCSE English Literature 8702
• Love and Relationships poetry
• Walking Away
• Cecil Day-Lewis
• GCSE poetry comparison
• Year 10
• Year 11
• Exam revision
• Intervention
• SEN / SEND support
• Mixed-ability groups
• Independent revision

SUPPORTING POETRY COMPARISON

Students can use the resource to develop comparison ideas between Walking Away and other poems from the AQA Love and Relationships anthology.

Useful comparison themes include:

• Parent-child relationships
• Family love
• Separation
• Distance
• Memory
• Growing independence
• Loss
• Change
• Different forms of love
• The difficulty of letting go

Possible comparison poems may include:

• Follower
• Before You Were Mine
• Mother, any distance
• Eden Rock
• Climbing My Grandfather

ABOUT THE PREVIEW

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FILE FORMAT

This resource contains PNG visual revision resources.

Please note that these are visual resources rather than an editable PowerPoint or Word workbook.

EXAM BOARD

Designed to support:

AQA GCSE English Literature (8702)
Love and Relationships Poetry
Walking Away – Cecil Day-Lewis

PLEASE NOTE

This is an independently created educational resource and is not produced, endorsed or approved by AQA.

Students should use this resource alongside the official AQA specification, their anthology and teacher guidance.

Copyright in the original poem remains with the relevant copyright holder.