English Literature GCSE

Annotations:

• Remember - Act 1 Scene 5Act 1 Scene 7 Act 2 Scene 2 Act 2 Scene 5

1. At least 5 poets
2. At least 15 poems
   1. War Poems
      1. Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes

         Annotations:

         • "My eyes closed" "No falsifying dream" "hooked head" and "hooked feet" "rehearse perfect kills" "convenience of the high trees" "The allotment of death" "No arguments assert my right" "I kill where I please" "No sophistry"
      2. Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

         Annotations:

         • "Haunting flares" - A flare is sent as a distress call, his squad turns his back on the flares "Distant rest" - The soldiers are beginning to feel the lack of sleep"Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!" - Completely changes the mood of the poem"ecstasy of fumbling" "shows that everyone is rushing for their lives""Men marched asleep" - Men are beginning not to cope with the lack of sleep"guttering, choking, drowning" -powerful descriptive adverbs"I saw him drowning" - describes the choking of getting caught in Mustard gas"In all my dreams.... He plunges at me" - He will never forget it, it haunts him"His hanging face" - describes the damage the gas does to the soldiers face"like a devil's sick of sin" - describes something considered impossible to show that the face is impossible to describe "Obscene as cancer" "Bitter as the cud"
      3. The Manhunt by Simon Armitage

         Annotations:

         • "Passionate nights and intimate days" - How the relationship WAS "frozen river which ran through his face" - Lack of emotions now "blown hinge of his lower jaw" "damaged, porcelain collar-bone" "fractured rudder of shoulder-blade" -dramatic adjectives show how delicate he is "Parachute silk of his punctured lung" - A damaged parachute is useless
      4. The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

         Annotations:

         • "That is for ever England" - His grave is part of England "A dust whom England bore"- England created and shaped him"all evil shed away"- Once dead he is at peace"pulse in the eternal mind" - Never forgotten "Thoughts by England given" - After death he will think of England "English Heaven" - Specifically a better Heaven with only english people
   2. Romantic Poems
      1. Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy
      2. She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron
      3. Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

         Annotations:

         • "How do I love thee" direct address makes it personal "ideal grace" uses religion to show love as it was important back then
      4. Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove
      5. A Wife In London by Thomas Hardy

         Annotations:

         • "tawny vapour" - Fog is ominous and foreboding  "webby fold on fold" - mist and despair all over the streets "cracks smartly" Onomatapeia, breaks her thoughts "flashed news" Speedy and difficult to take in "dazes to understand" Can't understand the bad news shes recieved "the fog hangs thicker" symbolic of the lack of communication between her and her lost lover "his hand, whom the worm now knows" The lost lover sent a letter before his death, the letter only came after his death "penned in highest feather" the letter he sent was positive "in the summer weather" he was looking forward to summer

Attachments:

• GCSE: Reading Comprehension and Critical Reading

1. spelling
2. punctuation
3. grammar

1. 2. Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology
   1. 3. Show understanding of the relationships between texts and the contexts in which they were written
      1. 4. Use a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation
         1. 5%
      2. 15-20%
   2. 40-45%
2. 35-40%