GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE (9-1) - the 15

"Relationships" Examination Set Text poems

KEGS English Department: approved online resources - readings
aloud and video analyses

1. John Keats – La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1819)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL-L8ExX3kQ = read aloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuMz1g_a0BQ = teacher analysis

2. Joanna Baillie – A Child to his Sick Grandfather (1790)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1z794p_joanna-baillie-a-child-to-his-sick-
grandfather =_music and text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZLGyuwqBSc = analysis

3. Lord Byron – She Walks in Beauty (1814)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_zCOJOgd4U = read aloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icV51Tf86oM = analysis

4. William Wordsworth – A Complaint (1807)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxbKbwluLzY = read aloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKv8kH-RN0E = analysis

5. Thomas Hardy – Neutral Tones (1898)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s2Cl64zYzA = read aloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIlqynCFo5g = analysis

6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnet 43 (1850)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ78X8K3IMw = read aloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdUKRXHmpfs = analysis

7. Robert Browning – My Last Duchess (1842)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5AoZY6a_kE = read aloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ggl2HTnfEI = analysis

8. Wendy Cope – 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He (2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvN92G3N6aY = read aloud

9. Carol Ann Duffy – Valentine (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv40UAFcVtk = analysis

10. Elizabeth Jennings – One Flesh (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyLdNKhLjDY = read aloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3FYo9Eec3Y = analysis

11. John Cooper Clarke – I Wanna Be Yours (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lupMcHWcKw = arctic monkeys' song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnEW_X8nVp = analysis
12. Jen Hadfield – Love’s Dog (2008)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muathvqe680 = analysis

13. Vernon Scannell – Nettles (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wttwy0recg = read aloud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF4-nfENfoM = analysis

14. Simon Armitage – The Manhunt (2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGX4vwXvek4 = read aloud by wife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsuUlmw84-o = read by poet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtDiOsQsnRw = analysis by the poet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nv89WlrmCo = analysis

15. Ingrid de Kok – My Father Would Not Show Us (1988)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfCmxML42ck = analysis