IGCSE Syllabus

1. From Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 4, the following 15 poems:
2. From Song of Ouselves Vol 2 Part 4, the following 15 poems:

Section A: Poetry

Candidates answer on one set text in Section A (Poetry).

From Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 4, the following 15 poems:

• Margaret Atwood, ‘The City Planners’
• Boey Kim Cheng, ‘The Planners’
• Thom Gunn, ‘The Man with Night Sweats’
• Robert Lowell, ‘Night Sweat’
• Edward Thomas, ‘Rain’
• Anne Stevenson, ‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’
• Tony Harrison, ‘From Long Distance’
• W H Auden, ‘Funeral Blues’
• Thomas Hardy, ‘He Never Expected Much’
• Fleur Adcock, ‘The Telephone Call’
• Peter Porter, ‘A Consumer’s Report’
• Judith Wright, ‘Request To A Year’
• Charles Tennyson Turner, ‘On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book’
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ozymandias’
• Stevie Smith, ‘Away, Melancholy

From Song of Ouselves Vol 2 Part 4, the following 15 poems:

• I Hear An Army
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, I Find No Peace
• Charles Swinburne, A Leave Taking
• Philip Marston, After
• Robert Browning, Love In A Life
• Charlotte Mew, Rooms
• Mary Monck, Verses Written on Her Death-Bed
• Lauris Dorothy, Edmond Waterfall
• A.R.D.Fairburn, Rhyme of the Dead Self
• Percy Bysshe Shelley, Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples
• Derek Walcott, Nearing Forty
• Elinor Wylie, Now Let No Charitable Hope