GCSE English AQA Poetry Guide – Love & Relationships Anthology inc. Online Edn, Audio & Quizzes: perfect for the 2024 and 2025 exams (CGP AQA GCSE Poetry)
£6.20
Packed with crystal-clear notes on every poem, plus exam-style questions and online audio recordings for ultimate exam prep!
This brilliant book is the ultimate guide to the Love and Relationships cluster from the AQA GCSE English Literature Anthology of Poetry! The full text of every poem is included, with clear, concise notes on the meaning, form, structure, language and context – plus questions to help students develop their personal responses. Since it’s crucial to be able to compare the poems, we’ve included in-depth sections dividing the poems by the themes and poetic techniques found in the cluster. There are practice questions and exam-style questions at the end of each section, and the book is rounded off with plenty of detailed exam advice, including a section specifically focused on targeting those top 8-9 Grades. What’s more, we’ve also included top tips based on real Examiner’s Reports, so students know exactly what markers are looking for! As the cherry on top, the CGP wizards have concocted some brilliant online extras to give their revision a super-boost – audio recordings of the poems, insightful discussions about every poem and a digital quiz. Plus, it can all be taken on the road with the free Online Edition included too! Just use the code printed in the book to unlock. For even more practice this Poetry Guide matches our Love and Relationships Poetry Workbook (9781782948209) and Revision Question Cards (9781789083705).
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Additional information
| Publisher | Coordination Group Publications Ltd (CGP) (7 Jun. 2021) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 96 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1782943625 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1782943624 |
| Reading age | 14 – 16 years |
| Dimensions | 29.5 x 0.4 x 21 cm |
by MRS JULIE GUDGEON
Bought for my son who said it was useful
by Hana
thank you its in perfect condtions and i got it half price
by Hattie
Being someone who is struggling with the English Literatre GCSE at the moment, this book has really helped me. The annotations around each poem are really useful, most easy to remember as well.
The other sections (themes, comparisons, structure etc) really help to understand each poem better with a strong foundation. I genuinely think I’ll do better in the poetry section in my exam because of this guide as long I keep on using it thoroughly, and keep putting a lot of effort in.
by Eleanor Jane McFarlane
The detail in this book is incredible and the information provided on the pages on the right is really useful to talk about in exams. The practice questions are my favourite thing about them however because they range from simple, one-word answers that are really useful to use to jog your memory about the poems to exam-style questions which allow you to practice responses to questions you might face in an exam. This guide paired with Mr Bruff’s youtube channel (type it into youtube and look at his Grade 9 responses to the the poems, they’re so helpful!) are incredible resources, especially for those who don’t know where to start when it comes to revising the poems. Good luck with your exams!
by M. Lewis
Good, clear over-analysis of GCSE poetry as demanded by current exam boards! Honestly, if poets really thought that much about every word they wrote, I don’t think any poetry would ever be written! But, needs must for GCSE exams. A few poets probably revolving in their graves but Heigh Ho, perhaps every possible nuance and interpretation was intended (like hell). Oh dear, a little cynical? – & I’m the parent (& poetry lover!) Thank god I didn’t have to over-analyse this much when I did my old O level English Lit. Teens, there is good poetry out there, they just didn’t choose much of it for your GCSE study. Do try it again years later when you’ve recovered, and maybe you can find some poets you enjoy and just read them for your enjoyment, discovering more each time you read them.
Unfortunately the Board examiners interpret every word or punctuation mark to have a deep meaning, turning all those theories into a memory test -how many can you remember? That is how you’ll be marked. Parents, do have a read, I bet you’ll be shocked! Anyway, enough of modern exams – the GCSE English literature poetry guide gives good, listings in clear form for all those myriad details you are expected to learn off by heart to pass your exam. I’d say it’s a must for revision because reading the poems, you are never going to work out that many interpretations yourselves (largely because the poets themselves probably never even thought of them). A revision ‘must have’!
by Grace Byrne
It has some good annotations and is a really good guide. However these annotations will be seen in nearly every gcse paper so I use this book to see what everyone else will put and then find annotations that aren’t in it to wow the examiner
by Urszula Sarnecka
This is my daughters opinion on this product (she has just done her GCSE for English Literature) :
This revision book is really helpful for the second part of the English Literature course, paper 2. The overall quality of the product is really good and modern looking which is appealing to the eye. In simple terms this is its context;
1. Inside cover contains a Table of Themes that allow an easier use to compare poems
2. First section contains the Poems themselves alongside thorough annotations
3. Section two contains the Themes associated with different poems and how they link
4. Section three contains Poetic Techniques and how to apply them into your answer
5. Section four contains Exam Advice along with tips
6. Section five contains Improvements and Marking Sample Answers
I found this book really helpful, especially the annotation section of the poems as I could remember the poems better through the thorough analysis than the lyrical description of each poem. If you’re worried about the remembering section of the poems, take my word of remembering the annotations, it helps you link poems together easier. I would definitely buy this book again even just for a good read of the poems. The content is so specific I find that it would be very relaxing just to read and understand the poems for the pure good of reading them.
Hope this helps 🙂
Helpful Note: This revision guide only contains content for the ‘Love and Relationships’ part of the ‘AQA Anthology’. The ‘Power and Conflict’ part is found in a separate revision guide by CGP.
by naz
I think I bought this like 4 years ago or more than that for school, but yeah brand new book, better than the used ones they hand at school that you have to give back and it’s more convenient making your own annotations and stuff