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Abstract
To achieve top grades in English Literature, you need to know your set texts and master all the key skills examiners are looking for. With everything you need right at hand, this NEW York Notes Study Guide on Love and Relationships: AQA Poetry Anthology – now with complete annotated poems! – gives you all the tools you need to study the cluster, practise Unseen poetry and face your exam with confidence.
Read and understand all the poems – Find every poem, printed in full with lots of expert annotations, to help you read, understand and write about the cluster.
Practise all the key skills – Use the dedicated sections on Form, Structure and Language and Themes and Contexts to perfect your knowledge and master the key techniques. Plus, get help with Comparing poems and the Unseen poem questions.
Check your progress – Use the regular ‘Progress and revision check’ features to test your knowledge and understanding, and monitor what you have achieved.
Feel ready for the exam – Key features linked to the Assessment Objectives, longer exam-style ‘Practice tasks’ and annotated sample answers at different levels, will help you to be exam-ready and prepared to perform at your best.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Front Cover | ||
| Contents | 3 | ||
| Part One: Getting Started | 5 | ||
| Preparing for assessment | 5 | ||
| How to use your York Notes Study Guide | 6 | ||
| Part Two: Exploring the Poems | 7 | ||
| How to read and study a poem | 7 | ||
| Lord Byron: ‘When We Two Parted’ | 8 | ||
| Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Love’s Philosophy’ | 12 | ||
| Robert Browning: ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ | 15 | ||
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning: ‘Sonnet 29 – “I think of thee!”’ | 19 | ||
| Thomas Hardy: ‘Neutral Tones’ | 22 | ||
| Maura Dooley: ‘Letters from Yorkshire’ | 25 | ||
| Charlotte Mew: ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ | 28 | ||
| Cecil Day Lewis: ‘Walking Away’ | 32 | ||
| Charles Causley: ‘Eden Rock’ | 35 | ||
| Seamus Heaney: ‘Follower’ | 38 | ||
| Simon Armitage: ‘Mother, any distance’ | 42 | ||
| Carol Ann Duffy: ‘Before You Were Mine’ | 45 | ||
| Owen Sheers: ‘Winter Swans’ | 48 | ||
| Daljit Nagra: ‘Singh Song!’ | 51 | ||
| Andrew Waterhouse: ‘Climbing My Grandfather’ | 55 | ||
| Progress and revision check | 58 | ||
| Part Three: Themes and Contexts | 60 | ||
| Themes | 60 | ||
| Family ties | 60 | ||
| Love and desire | 62 | ||
| Breakdown and betrayal | 64 | ||
| Separation | 66 | ||
| Time and memory | 66 | ||
| The natural world | 67 | ||
| Contexts | 68 | ||
| Progress and revision check | 70 | ||
| Part Four: Form, structure and language | 71 | ||
| Form | 71 | ||
| Structure | 73 | ||
| Language | 77 | ||
| Voice and viewpoint | 77 | ||
| Imagery | 78 | ||
| Symbolism | 79 | ||
| Connotation | 79 | ||
| Language and vocabulary choice | 80 | ||
| Rhetorical question | 81 | ||
| Personification | 81 | ||
| Tone and mood | 82 | ||
| Progress and revision check | 83 | ||
| Part Five: Comparing Poems in the Cluster | 84 | ||
| The exam | 84 | ||
| Links between poems | 85 | ||
| Exploring ideas and issues in both poems | 87 | ||
| The language of exploration, comparison and contrast | 89 | ||
| Progress check | 89 | ||
| Part Six: Approaching ‘Unseen Poems’ | 90 | ||
| The exam | 90 | ||
| How to approach the first ‘unseen’ poem question | 91 | ||
| How to approach the second ‘unseen’ poem question | 93 | ||
| Practice task 1 | 94 | ||
| Practice task 2 | 96 | ||
| Progress check | 97 | ||
| Part Seven: Progress Booster | 98 | ||
| Understanding the question | 98 | ||
| Planning your answer | 98 | ||
| Responding to writers’ effects | 101 | ||
| Using quotations | 103 | ||
| Annotated sample answers | 104 | ||
| Practice task 3 | 110 | ||
| Part Eight: Further Study and Answers | 111 | ||
| Literary terms | 111 | ||
| Checkpoint answers | 113 | ||
| Progress and revision check answers | 115 | ||
| Mark scheme | 117 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |