Hi #TeamEnglish - here are my poetry blogs. They may be useful if you are teaching the AQA P&C Cluster. I have also tagged my blog on Poetry, Aesthetics and Powerful Knowledge at the end, and one for those new to lit theory. There are 10 blogs in this thread đŸ‘‡đŸœ
1. London https://roundlearning.org/2017/12/15/marks-of-weakness-marks-of-woe/
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.

Some short, contextual comments on Blake’s ‘London.’ William Blake’s London, nestled quietly between Shelley and Wordsworth in the AQA Power and Conflict cluster, doesn̔ 

https://roundlearning.org/2017/12/15/marks-of-weakness-marks-of-woe/
2. Ozymandias https://roundlearning.org/2020/02/13/ozymandias-and-the-heart-that-fed/
Ozymandias and the Heart that Fed

What a small poem. Ozymandias is tiny, really. Neatly condensed and deceptively packed into sonnet form, it’s densely crammed with narrators, images, hubris, and the devastating, eternal nothingnes


https://roundlearning.org/2020/02/13/ozymandias-and-the-heart-that-fed/
3. My Last Duchess https://roundlearning.org/2020/04/30/my-duchess-my-thing/
My Duchess; my thing

‘
our human speech is naught. Our human testimony false, our fame and human estimation words and wind. 
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth
’ Robert Browning The Ring and the Book (1


https://roundlearning.org/2020/04/30/my-duchess-my-thing/
4. Remains https://roundlearning.org/2019/01/29/a-sense-of-restraint-comments-on-armitages-remains/
A Sense of Restraint: Comments on Armitage’s ‘Remains’

While physical and mental conflict spills from every blood-drenched line in Remains, there’s another conflict underpinning the poem; the internal and institutional conflict that surfaces when soldi


https://roundlearning.org/2019/01/29/a-sense-of-restraint-comments-on-armitages-remains/
5. War Photographer https://roundlearning.org/2020/04/01/the-horror-beneath-comments-on-war-photographer/
The Horror Beneath: Comments on War Photographer

Within this poem is a mind, a body, and a world beyond repair. There is a patina of respectability; there is a semblance of order in these four tightly-held stanzas, each identical in length. Scrat


https://roundlearning.org/2020/04/01/the-horror-beneath-comments-on-war-photographer/
6. Tissue https://roundlearning.org/2018/04/06/paper-that-lets-the-light-shine-through/
Paper that lets the light shine through


Comments on Tissue by Imtiaz Dharker, written for my GCSE English Literature students. If you’re revising at home, without your anthology, a copy of the poem can be found here: Sometimes, in moment


https://roundlearning.org/2018/04/06/paper-that-lets-the-light-shine-through/
7. Kamikaze (I am not that pleased with this blog and the formatting is odd - I can't seem to fix it. I'll probably rewrite one soon; it needs a better treatment) https://roundlearning.org/2017/01/29/kamikaze-some-supplementary-thoughts/
Kamikaze: some supplementary thoughts.

Halfway through a PiXL session on Friday, I checked my work emails. I was concentrating (honest!) but I always seem to have a little corner of my mind checking in on the faculty and/or Twitter. To 


https://roundlearning.org/2017/01/29/kamikaze-some-supplementary-thoughts/
8. Charge of the Light Brigade https://roundlearning.org/2018/11/04/rode-the-six-hundred/
Rode the Six Hundred

A few thoughts on pronouns, context, the ’blunder’, and the language of hell and death in Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade. They’re tiny little words, pronouns – often overlooked, or clumsily


https://roundlearning.org/2018/11/04/rode-the-six-hundred/
9. Poetry, Aesthetics and Powerful Knowledge https://roundlearning.org/2020/05/24/poetry-aesthetics-and-powerful-knowledge/
Poetry, Aesthetics and Powerful Knowledge

Over the last decade, we have seen a glossing of the educational philosophies and landscape. We have polarised ourselves into camps – we are traditional or progressive; we are Team Knowledge or Tea


https://roundlearning.org/2020/05/24/poetry-aesthetics-and-powerful-knowledge/
10. Mirrors and Lamps - Lit for beginners.
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Mirrors and Lamps

A post for teachers – especially non-specialists – of GCSE English Literature “Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812. His father was sent to debtors’ prison when he was 12 and



https://roundlearning.org/2018/02/04/mirrors-and-lamps/
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