For years you kept your accentin a box beneath the bed Liz Berry Summary Homing was written in 2014 as part of Berry’s award-winning poetry collection The Black Country. The collection is an ode to her birthplace and family heritage … Continue reading Homing by Liz Berry: AQA Worlds and Lives
the Punjabi in my mouth, became dislodged as milk teeth fell Raman Mundair Summary The speaker begins with comparing themselves and their sense of isolation to the Hindu deity Rama. They go on to lament their loneliness by highlighting their … Continue reading Name Journeys: AQA Worlds and Lives
Hello, she said, and startled me.Nice day. Nice day I agreed. James Berry Summary On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 was written by James Berry, who was born in 1924 and died in 2017. Born in Jamaica … Continue reading On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955: AQA Worlds and Lives
Travel back in time with George Eliot’s In a London Drawingroom, a poem that remained unpublished for 90 years. The sky is cloudy, yellowed by the smoke. George Eliot Summary The poem describes the speaker’s view from their drawingroom, which … Continue reading In a London Drawingroom Analysis: AQA Worlds and Lives
Welcome back to Beyond English’s AQA Love and Relationships poetry bonanza. This week, we’re exploring Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem -Sonnet 29: I Think of Thee! Continue reading Elizabeth Barrett Browning – Sonnet 29: I Think of Thee! AQA Love and Relationships
Welcome back to Beyond English’s AQA Love and Relationships poetry bonanza. This week, we’re exploring Love’s Philosophy poem, by mad lad Shelley. Continue reading Before You Were Mine: AQA Love and Relationships
I decide to do it free, without a rope or net Andrew Waterhouse Welcome back to Beyond English’s AQA Love and Relationships poetry bonanza. This week, we’re exploring Climbing My Grandfather by Andrew Waterhouse. We’ll be focusing on: Climbing My … Continue reading Climbing My Grandfather: AQA Love and Relationships
Welcome back to Beyond English’s AQA Love and Relationships poetry bonanza. This week, we’re exploring Love’s Philosophy poem, by mad lad Shelley. Continue reading Follower by Seamus Heaney Analysis: AQA Love and Relationships
Welcome back to Beyond English’s AQA Love and Relationships poetry bonanza. This week, we’re exploring Love’s Philosophy poem, by mad lad Shelley. Continue reading Mother, Any Distance by Simon Armitage: AQA Love and Relationships
Welcome back to Beyond English’s AQA Love and Relationships poetry bonanza. This week, we’re exploring a poem by Charlotte Mew – come read our ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ analysis. Continue reading The Farmer’s Bride Analysis: AQA Love and Relationships
