IGCSE Poetry Resources

Oblivion

Ellis Ayitey Komey resists the coming of the dark

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Seamus Heaney wants to grow up to be like his dad

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Judith Wright gives us a glimpse of the sublime

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Kevin Halligan’s as stuck as a bug in a rut

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Matrimony’s not quite so holy in Katherine Philips’ anti-marriage poem

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William Blake sweeps away the comforting lies that enable child exploitation

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Who is really being appreciated in this famously tender poem by William Shakespeare?

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Nurture trumps nature in Elizabeth Brewster’s austerely beautiful poem

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Alexander Pope examines our place in the grand scheme of things

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There’s plenty of reasons to be sad – and angry – in Gillian Clarke’s poem based on the events of the first Gulf War

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