Past questions and likely poems

Just done a quick scan of past questions + themes (from exemplar packs or exams) for Year 12 and Year 13:

 

On her Blindness – growing old

Please Hold  - strong emotions

Out of the Bag – memorable characters

Deliverer – disturbing events

A Minor Role – challenging experiences

Effects – changing relationships

Inheritence – what we inherit from past

Look we have coming to Dover! – identity

Chainsaw v Pampas – human relationship with natural world

History – brief experiences > universal themes

Chainsaw v Pampas – ordinary events to explore universal themes

Easy Passage – shift from childhood to adulthood

 

Chainsaw has come up twice now – but this also suggests that they can name a previously named poem again, only with a different focus. So it’s hard to say ‘don’t study the poems above’. However, it might be worth doubling your focus on poems that haven’t been named yet, and also to think about other themes worth considering – like the ones we made up for the mocks:

 

Mapwoman + memory and Leisure Centre + Gender

Same goes for Furthest Distance + worthwhile experiences and Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn + everyday life.

 

These ones, soon to be axed, are STILL ON THE LIST and may well come up – they’ve pointed this out explicitly.

• Eavan Boland - 'Inheritance'
• Sue Boyle - 'A Leisure Centre is also a Temple of Learning'
• Ciaran Carson - 'The War Correspondent'
• Carol Ann Duffy - 'The Map Woman'
• Robert Minhinnick - 'The Fox in the National Museum of Wales'
• Sean O’Brien - 'Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright'
• Ruth Padel - 'You, Shiva, and my Mum'
• George Szirtes -'Song'