For those that are studying Cambridge IGCSE World Literature 0408 course, here is a list of all poems from their syllabus analyzed for the years 2022, 2023, and 2024. If you are struggling to understand any of the terms used in our analysis, explore our literary term glossary.
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Cambridge IGCSE World Literature 0408 Poems (2022-24)
Set texts for examination in 2022
A selection from Songs of Ourselves (Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English) Volume 1. The following 14 poems from Part 3: Poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Carol Rumens – Carpet-weavers, Morocco [PDF Guide]
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Song to the Men of England [PDF Guide]
- Hone Tuwhare – Monologue [PDF Guide]
- Liz Lochhead – Storyteller [PDF Guide]
- Charles Lamb – The Old Familiar Faces [PDF Guide]
- Walter De La Mare – The Listeners [PDF Guide]
- Thomas Hardy – The Voice [PDF Guide]
- Allen Curnow – Time [PDF Guide]
- Matthew Arnold – Dover Beach [PDF Guide]
- Ted Hughes – Full Moon and Little Frieda [PDF Guide]
- Gillian Clarke – Lament [PDF Guide]
- Vachel Lindsay – The Flower-Fed Buffaloes [PDF Guide]
- Boey Kim Cheng – Report to Wordsworth [PDF Guide]
- John Clare – First Love [PDF Guide]
Set texts for examination in 2023
A selection from Songs of Ourselves (Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English) Volume 2. The following 14 poems from Part 2: Birds, Beasts and the Weather:
- Judith Wright – Australia 1970 [PDF Guide]
- Thomas Carew – The Spring [PDF Guide]
- Philip Larkin – Coming [PDF Guide]
- Thomas Hardy – The Darkling Thrush [PDF Guide]
- Ruth Pitter – Stormcock in Elder [PDF Guide]
- Stevie Smith – Parrot [PDF Guide]
- Vivian Smith – At the Parrot House, Taronga Park [PDF Guide]
- Alice Oswald – Eel Tail [PDF Guide]
- Peter Reading – Cetacean [PDF Guide]
- David Constantine – Watching for Dolphins [PDF Guide]
- William Barnes – The Storm-Wind [PDF Guide]
- Kofi Awoonor – The Sea Eats the Land at Home [PDF Guide]
- Allen Curnow – You Will Know When You Get There [PDF Guide]
- Robinson Jeffers – The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean [PDF Guide]
Set texts for examination in 2024
A selection from Songs of Ourselves (Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Poetry in English) Volume 2. The following 14 poems from Part 2: Birds, Beasts and the Weather:
- Judith Wright – Australia 1970 [PDF Guide]
- Thomas Carew – The Spring [PDF Guide]
- Philip Larkin – Coming [PDF Guide]
- Thomas Hardy – The Darkling Thrush [PDF Guide]
- Ruth Pitter – Stormcock in Elder [PDF Guide]
- Stevie Smith – Parrot [PDF Guide]
- Vivian Smith – At the Parrot House, Taronga Park [PDF Guide]
- Alice Oswald – Eel Tail [PDF Guide]
- Peter Reading – Cetacean [PDF Guide]
- David Constantine – Watching for Dolphins [PDF Guide]
- William Barnes – The Storm-Wind [PDF Guide]
- Kofi Awoonor – The Sea Eats the Land at Home [PDF Guide]
- Allen Curnow – You Will Know When You Get There [PDF Guide]
- Robinson Jeffers – The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean [PDF Guide]
