La Belle Dame Sans Merci - Read the Full Poem
Read Keat’s tragic poem about a trickster faery lady who lures a poor knight into her life by pretending to be a damsel in distress.
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning - Read The Full Poem
Here’s Browning’s dark and powerful dramatic monologue about a psychopathic Duke who wants to send a message of dominance and control to his new wife’s family, by alluding to the fact that he murdered his previous wife because he couldn’t control her.
iGCSE Questions for ‘Blessing’
A list of practice questions for the poem ‘Blessing’, tailored towards Edexcel iGCSE Literature exams.
iGCSE Questions for The Tyger
A list of practice questions for Blake’s poem ‘The Tyger’, tailored towards Edexcel iGCSE Literature exams.
iGCSE Questions for La Belle Dame Sans Merci
A list of practice questions for Keats’ poem ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’’, tailored towards Edexcel iGCSE Literature exams
iGCSE Questions for Funeral Blues
A couple of practice questions for the iconic poem Funeral Blues by WH Auden, tailored towards Edexcel iGCSE Literature exams.
‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling: Poem + Analysis
The poem has a personal, emotional and motivational tone which is intended to inspire its readers - for this reason, it is likely that the speaker is the poet himself (Kipling).
Edexcel IGCSE Poetry: Essay Planning + Example Paragraphs
Before writing your own essay, it can be helpful to go through a few different example answers that are around the specific level you’re aiming for. Here are a couple example paragraphs as well as essay planning based around Edexcel IGCSE Poetry.
How To Study Poetry (for Edexcel IGCSE Literature)
As a whole, Literature covers three forms of writing: poetry, prose (novels/stories) and drama (plays). In any GCSE or iGCSE exam, you’ll have to write essays about all three of these forms.
‘My Last Duchess’ - Context Analysis
Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess (1842) is one of the most famous dramatic monologues in Victorian poetry. It offers a chilling insight into the psychology of power, control, and jealousy. Understanding the poem requires knowledge of its historical, literary, and biographical contexts.
Edexcel IGCSE Poetry: Grade Boundaries + Mark Scheme
Before writing your own essay, it can be helpful to go through a few different example answers that are around the specific level you’re aiming for. It’s always good to read student exemplar scripts with examiner feedback too, to get an idea for how the essay will be marked. You also need to understand the mark scheme and the grade boundaries in detail.
Essay Questions: Edexcel IGCSE Poetry Anthology
Here are 20 Anthology questions taken from official Edexcel IGCSE Literature past papers - use these as a starting point for essay practice, theme revision, essay planning or full mock exams.