OCR AS and A level English Literature H072/H472 Poems Analyzed

For those that are studying English Literature at AS and A level on the OCR board of examiners, here is a list of the required poems analyzed. This includes all the selected poems, mentioned in the H702 OCR AS English Literature Specification and H472 OCR A Level English Literature Specification (the list of poems for each syllabus is the same). Please feel free to skip to the poem most relevant to you. If you want a poem to be analyzed that you cannot find on the site too, please feel free to contact us.

OCR H072/H472 AS and A Level English Literature Poems Analyzed

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Merchant’s Prologue and Tale

• Prologue ^{[PDF Guide]}
• 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]}

John Milton: Paradise Lost Books 9 & 10

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems

• The Eolian Harp ^{[PDF Guide]}
• Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement ^{[PDF Guide]}
• This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ^{[PDF Guide]}
• Kubla Khan ^{[PDF Guide]}
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts (1817 text)
  • Part 1 ^{[PDF Guide]}
  • Part 2 ^{[PDF Guide]}
  • Part 3 ^{[PDF Guide]}
  • Part 4 ^{[PDF Guide]}
  • Part 5 ^{[PDF Guide]}
  • Part 6 ^{[PDF Guide]}
  • Part 7 ^{[PDF Guide]}
• Christabel ^{[PDF Guide]}
• The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem April 1798 (‘No cloud, no relique of the sunken day’) ^{[PDF Guide]}
• Fears in Solitude ^{[PDF Guide]}
• Frost at Midnight ^{[PDF Guide]}
• Dejection: An Ode ^{[PDF Guide]}
• The Pains of Sleep ^{[PDF Guide]}
• To William Wordsworth ^{[PDF Guide]}
• The Knight’s Tomb ^{[PDF Guide]}
• Youth and Age ^{[PDF Guide]}
• Constancy to an Ideal Object ^{[PDF Guide]}

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Maud

Christina Rossetti: Selected Poems

1. Song: When I am dead, my dearest ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Remember ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. From the Antique (‘It’s a weary life, it is, she said’) ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Echo ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. Shut Out ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. In the Round Tower at Jhansi (Indian Mutiny) ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. A Birthday ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. Maude Clare ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Up-hill ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. No, thank you, John ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. Good Friday (‘Am I a stone and not a sheep?’) ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Goblin Market ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Twice ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Winter: My Secret ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. Soeur Louise de la Miséricorde ^{[PDF Guide]}