Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature in English 9695 (2021-23) Poems Analyzed

For those that are studying the Cambridge International AS & A Level Literature (English) (9695) for the years 2021-23, there is a list of poems for which the student must study in preparation for answering a question about any one of them, taken from the syllabus.

Since Poem Analysis has the largest database of poetry analysis on the internet, you can find below every poem analyzed from the course, which, in total, is 45 poems for 2021-23 (if it has not yet been analyzed, we are working very hard to get it analyzed as soon as possible). Please feel free to skip to the poem most relevant to you and if you want a poem to be analyzed that you cannot find on the site too, feel free to contact us.

What poems apply to the course depends on the year:

Robert Browning Poems

(Paper 1, Section B Poetry for 2021, 2022, and 2023)

1. A Face ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. A Light Woman ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. A Toccata of Galuppi’s ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. A Woman’s Last Word ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. Among the Rocks ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. Confessions ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Epilogue ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. ‘How Thet Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Life in a Love ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. Love Among the Ruins ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. Love in a Life ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Meeting at Night ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. My Last Duchess ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Pictor Ignotus ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. Porphyria’s Lover ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. The Bishop Orders His Tomb ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. The Confessional ^{[PDF Guide]}
19. The Laboratory ^{[PDF Guide]}
20. The Last Ride Together ^{[PDF Guide]}
21. The Lost Leader ^{[PDF Guide]}
22. The Lost Mistress ^{[PDF Guide]}
23. The Patriot ^{[PDF Guide]}
24. The Pied Piper of Hamelin ^{[PDF Guide]}
25. Women and Roses ^{[PDF Guide]}

2023: Songs of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Poetry in English, Volume 2

1. The Clod and the Pebble by William Blake ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Passion by Kathleen Raine ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Winter Song by Elizabeth Tollett ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Love (III) by George Herbert ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. ‘She was a Phantom of Delight’ by William Wordsworth ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. Surplus Value by David C. Ward ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Father Returning Home by Dilip Chitre ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. In the Park by Gwen Harwood ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. The Lost Woman… by Patricia Beer ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. Stabat Mater by Sam Hunt ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. Australia 1970 by Judith Wright ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Description of Spring by Henry Howard, Early of Surrey ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. The Spring by Thomas Carew ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. Eel Tail by Alice Oswald ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. The Buck in the Snow by Edna St. Vincent Millay ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. The Storm-Wind by William Barnes ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. The Sea and the Hills by Rudyard Kipling ^{[PDF Guide]}
19. Blessing by Imtiaz Dharker ^{[PDF Guide]}
20. The Stars Go Over the Lonely Ocean by Robinson Jeffers ^{[PDF Guide]}
21. The Road by Nancy Fotheringham Cato ^{[PDF Guide]}
22. Who in One Lifetime by Muriel Rukeyser ^{[PDF Guide]}
23. The Hour is Come by Louisa Lawson ^{[PDF Guide]}
24. an afternoon nap by Arthur Yap ^{[PDF Guide]}
25. from The Complaints of Poverty by Nicholas James ^{[PDF Guide]}
26. A Long Journey by Musaemura Zimunya ^{[PDF Guide]}
27. I Hear an Army… by James Joyce ^{[PDF Guide]}
28. Growing Old by Matthew Arnold ^{[PDF Guide]}
29. from Fears in Solitude by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ^{[PDF Guide]}
30. Renouncement by Alice Meynell ^{[PDF Guide]}

2021-22: Songs of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Poetry in English, Volume 2

(Paper 1, Section B Poetry for 2021 and 2022)

1. Song by Lady Mary Wroth ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. If Thou must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. The Wedding by Moniza Alvi ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. The Pride of Lions by Joanna Preston ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. Sonnet 19 by William Shakespeare ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening by Charlotte Smith ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. The Mountain by Elizabeth Bishop ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. The Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Barrett Browning ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Shirt by Robert Pinsky ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood (still analyzing)
11. First March by Ivor Gurney ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. On the Day of Judgement by Jonathan Swift ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Darkness by George Gordon, Lord Byron ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. A Complaint by William Wordsworth ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. A Song of Faith Forsworn by John Warren, Lord de Tabley ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor by John Dryden ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. When We Two Parted by George Gordon, Lord Byron ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. Homecoming by Lauris Edmond (still analyzing)
19. I Years had been from Home by Emily Dickinson ^{[PDF Guide]}
20. Waterfall by Lauris Edmond ^{[PDF Guide]}
21. When You are Old by William Butler Yeats ^{[PDF Guide]}
22. On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year by Lord Byron ^{[PDF Guide]}
23. Distant Fields/ANZAC Parade by Rhian Gallagher ^{[PDF Guide]}
24. The Death-Bed by Siegfried Sassoon ^{[PDF Guide]}
25. A Wife in London (December, 1899) by Thomas Hardy ^{[PDF Guide]}
26. Futility by Wilfred Owen ^{[PDF Guide]}
27. The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ^{[PDF Guide]}
28. Sleep by Kenneth Slessor ^{[PDF Guide]}

Gillian Clarke: Selected Poems

(Paper 1, Section B Poetry for 2021, 2022, and 2023)

1. Advent ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Apples ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Baby-sitting ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Blaen Cwrt ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. Burning Nettles (still analyzing)
6. Catrin ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Climbing Cader Idris ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. Cold Knap Lake ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Death of a Cat ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. Death of a Young Woman ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. February ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Hare in July (still analyzing)
13. Hearthstone ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Icthyosaur (still analyzing)
15. Journey ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. Lunchtime Lecture ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. Miracle on St David’s Day ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. My Box ^{[PDF Guide]}
19. Neighbours ^{[PDF Guide]}
20. Pipistrelle ^{[PDF Guide]}
21. Post Script ^{[PDF Guide]}
22. Ram ^{[PDF Guide]}
23. Scything ^{[PDF Guide]}
24. Seal ^{[PDF Guide]}
25. Stealing Peas ^{[PDF Guide]}
26. Sunday ^{[PDF Guide]}
27. The Lighthouse ^{[PDF Guide]}
28. Times Like These ^{[PDF Guide]}
29. White Roses ^{[PDF Guide]}

Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems

(Paper 4, Section A Poetry for 2021, 2022, and 2023)

1. A Bird came down the Walk – ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. A Murmur in the Trees – to note – ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. A Narrow Fellow in the Grass ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. A still – Volcano – Life – ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. After great pain, a formal feeling comes – ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. An awful Tempest mashed the air – ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. As imperceptibly as Grief ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. Because I could not stop for Death – ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. “Hope” is the thing with feathers – ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. I can wade Grief – ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. I cautious, scanned my little life – ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. I did not reach Thee ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. I dreaded that first Robin, so, ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. I have a Bird in spring ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. I have never seen “Volcanoes” ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. I measure every Grief I meet ^{[PDF Guide]}
19. I’m Nobody! Who are you? ^{[PDF Guide]}
20. It was not Death, for I stood up, ^{[PDF Guide]}
21. My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – ^{[PDF Guide]}
22. One need not be a Chamber – to be Haunted – ^{[PDF Guide]}
23. The Brain – is wider than the Sky – ^{[PDF Guide]}
24. The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants – ^{[PDF Guide]}
25. The Wind – tapped like a tired Man – ^{[PDF Guide]}
26. There came a Wind like a Bugle – ^{[PDF Guide]}
27. There’s a certain Slant of light, ^{[PDF Guide]}
28. This World is not Conclusion ^{[PDF Guide]}
29. ‘Twas the old-road – through pain – ^{[PDF Guide]}
30. What mystery pervades a well! ^{[PDF Guide]}
31. Whose cheek is this? ^{[PDF Guide]}
32. Wild Nights – Wild Nights! ^{[PDF Guide]}

Derek Walcott: Selected Poems

(Paper 4, Section B Poetry for 2021)

1. A Careful Passion ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Adam’s Song ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Ebb ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Forest of Europe ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. Homecoming: Anse La Raye ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. Lampfall ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Landfall, Grenada ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. Mass Man ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Nearing Forty ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. Oddjob, a Bull Terrier ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. Parades, Parades ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Ruins of a Great House ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Sabbaths, WI ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Sea Canes ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. The Almond Trees ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. The Bright Field (still analyzing)
17. The Castaway ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. The Flock ^{[PDF Guide]}
19. The Schooner Flight, Chapter 11: After the Storm (still analyzing)
20. The Virgins ^{[PDF Guide]}
21. The Walk (still analyzing)
22. The Wind in the Dooryard ^{[PDF Guide]}
23. To Return to the Trees (still analyzing)
24. Verandah ^{[PDF Guide]}

Stephen Spender: Selected Poems

(Paper 4, Section B Poetry for 2021, 2022, and 2023)

1. A Father in Time of War ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. A First War Childhood ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Air Raid ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. An Elementary School Class Room in a Slum ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. Darkness and Light ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Hampstead Autumn ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. ‘If it were not too late!’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. In No Man’s Land ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. Missing My Daughter ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. No Orpheus, No Eurydice ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Nocturne ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Polar Exploration ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Seascape ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. ‘That girl who laughed and had black eyes’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. The Double Shame ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. The Past Values ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. The Separation (still analyzing)
19. Two Armies ^{[PDF Guide]}
20. V (still analyzing)
21. VIII: An ‘I’ can never be great man ^{[PDF Guide]}
22. War Photograph ^{[PDF Guide]}
23. XI (still analyzing)
24. XII (still analyzing)
25. XIII: What I Expected ^{[PDF Guide]}
26. XVIII: Who live under the shadow ^{[PDF Guide]}
27. XXI: Without That Once Clear Aim ^{[PDF Guide]}
28. XXII (still analyzing)
29. XXIV (still analyzing)
30. XXVI The Express ^{[PDF Guide]}
31. XXVII: Oh young men, oh young comrades ^{[PDF Guide]}
32. XXVIII The Pylons ^{[PDF Guide]}
33. XXX: In Railway Halls ^{[PDF Guide]}

Jackie Kay: Selected Poems from Darling: New & Selected Poems

(Paper 4, Section B Poetry for 2021, `2022, and 2023)

1. Away from You ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Blues ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Brendon Gallacher ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Childhood, Still (still analyzing)
5. Church Invisible (still analyzing)
6. Compound Fracture ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Darling ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. Divorce ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Dressing Up (still analyzing)
10. Even the Trees ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. False Memory ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. From Stranraer, South ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Gambia ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Going to See King Lear ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. Got You ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. He Told Us He Wanted a Black Coffin ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. In the Seventh Year ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. Keeping Orchids ^{[PDF Guide]}
19. Life Mask ^{[PDF Guide]}
20. Love Nest ^{[PDF Guide]}
21. My Grandmother ^{[PDF Guide]}
22. My Grandmother’s Houses ^{[PDF Guide]}
23. Plague ^{[PDF Guide]}
24. Pork Pies ^{[PDF Guide]}
25. Pride ^{[PDF Guide]}
26. Rubble ^{[PDF Guide]}
27. Teeth ^{[PDF Guide]}
28. The Crossing ^{[PDF Guide]}
29. The Keeper ^{[PDF Guide]}
30. The Right Season ^{[PDF Guide]}
31. The Same Note ^{[PDF Guide]}
32. The Underground Baby Case ^{[PDF Guide]}

Sujata Bhatt: Selected Poems from Point No Point

(Paper 4, Section B Poetry for 2022 and 2023)

1. 29 April 1989 ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. 3 November 1984 ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. A Different History ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. A Story for Pearse (still analyzing)
5. Angels’ Wings (still analyzing)
6. Counting Sheep White Blood Cells ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Eurydice Speaks ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. For Nanabhai Bhatt ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Garlic in War and Peace ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. Genealogy ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. Go to Ahmedabad ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Iris ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Marie Curie to Her Husband ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Nanabhai Bhatt in Prison (still analyzing)
15. Oranges and Lemons ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. Orpheus Confesses to Eurydice ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. Rooms by the Sea ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. Sujata: The First Disciple of Buddha ^{[PDF Guide]}
19. The Echoes in Poona (still analyzing)
20. The Langur Coloured Night ^{[PDF Guide]}
21. The Need to Recall the Journey ^{[PDF Guide]}
22. The One Who Goes Away ^{[PDF Guide]}
23. The Peacock ^{[PDF Guide]}
24. The Stare ^{[PDF Guide]}
25. The Stinking Rose ^{[PDF Guide]}
26. The Writer (still analyzing)
27. Walking Across the Brooklyn Bridge, July 1990 ^{[PDF Guide]}
28. We are Adrift ^{[PDF Guide]}
29. What Happened to the Elephant? ^{[PDF Guide]}

John Donne: Selected Poems

(Paper 4, Section A Poetry for 2023)

1. A Nocturnal upon S. Lucy’s Day, being the shortest day ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. A Valediction: forbidding Mourning ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Air and Angels ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Break of Day ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. Elegy 5: His Picture ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. Elegy 7 ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Elegy 9: The Autumnal ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 2 ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 4 ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 6 ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 7 ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 9 ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 10 ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 14 ^{[PDF Guide]}
16. Holy Sonnets: Divine Meditations 17 ^{[PDF Guide]}
17. Love’s Growth ^{[PDF Guide]}
18. Song: Go catch a falling star ^{[PDF Guide]}
19. The Anniversary ^{[PDF Guide]}
20. The Apparition ^{[PDF Guide]}
21. The Bait ^{[PDF Guide]}
22. The Canonization ^{[PDF Guide]}
23. The Dream ^{[PDF Guide]}
24. The Ecstasy ^{[PDF Guide]}
25. The Expiration ^{[PDF Guide]}
26. The Flea ^{[PDF Guide]}
27. The Good Morrow ^{[PDF Guide]}
28. The Relic ^{[PDF Guide]}
29. The Sun Rising ^{[PDF Guide]}
30. The Undertaking ^{[PDF Guide]}
31. Twickenham Garden ^{[PDF Guide]}

Geoffrey Chaucer – The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale:

1. The Merchant’s Prologue ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. The Merchant’s Tale:
   • Part I ^{[PDF Guide]}
   • Part II ^{[PDF Guide]}
   • Part III ^{[PDF Guide]}
   • Part IV ^{[PDF Guide]}
   • Part V ^{[PDF Guide]}
   • Part VI ^{[PDF Guide]}
   • Part VII ^{[PDF Guide]}