Introducing Semiotics

AS Comms - Consolidating High & Popular Culture

Watch this short tutorial on High and Popular Culture: click here

AS Lit - How to analyse a poem

AS Comms - Culture: two good clips to watch

AS Lit - the poems we are studying

These are the poems from Poems of the Decade that we are studying for the exam:

‘To my Nine-Year-Old Self’ by Helen Dunmore

‘An Easy Passage’ by Julia Copus

‘The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled’ by Leontia Flynn

‘A Leisure Centre is also a Temple of Learning’ by Sue Boyle

‘Inheritance’ by Eavan Boland

‘Out of the Bag’ by Seamus Heaney

‘The Fox in the National Museum of Wales’ by Robert Minhinnick

‘History’ by John Burnside

‘Eat Me’ by Patience Agbabi

‘The Gun’ by Vicki Feaver

‘The Map Woman’ by Carol Ann Duffy

‘Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass’ by Simon Armitage

‘Effects’ by Alan Jenkins

‘Material’ by Ros Barber

‘Genetics’ by Sinead Morrissey

‘Song’ by George Szirtes

‘Please Hold’ by Ciaran O’Driscoll

‘You, Shiva and My Mum’ by Ruth Padal

‘Look We Have Coming to Dover’ by Dalgit Nagra

‘Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn’ by Tim Turnbull

‘Fantasia on a Theme of James Wright’ by Sean O’Brien

‘From the Journal of a Disappointed Man’ by Andrew Motion

‘The War Correspondent’ by Ciaron Carson

‘Guiseppe’ by Roderick Ford

‘The Deliverer’ by Tishani Doshi

‘The Lammas Hireling’ by Ian Duhig

‘On Her Blindness’ by Adam Thorpe

‘A Minor Role’ by U. A. Fanthorpe

 

AS Lit: the first 4 poems

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A leisure centre is also a temple of learning

To my 9 year old self

An easy passage

The furthest distances I've travelled

A2 Lang Lit - Blake documentary

Watch this documentary about William Blake: click here