Cambridge IGCSE English Literature 0475 2023-25

For those that are studying Cambridge IGCSE Literature in English 0475 course, here is a list of all poems from their syllabus analyzed for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025 (version 2). These are the poems that apply to exams that are to be taken in 2023, 2024, or 2025, with the poems below applicable to Paper 1: Poetry and Prose. 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 Literature in English 0475

Set texts for examination in 2022 – Paper 1

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

1. Margaret Atwood, ‘The City Planners’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Boey Kim Cheng, ‘The Planners’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Thom Gunn, ‘The Man with Night Sweats’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Robert Lowell, ‘Night Sweat’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. Edward Thomas, ‘Rain’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. Anne Stevenson, ‘The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Tony Harrison, ‘From Long Distance’ (a.k.a ‘Long Distance II’) ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. W. H. Auden, ‘Funeral Blues’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Thomas Hardy, ‘He Never Expected Much’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. Fleur Adcock, ‘The Telephone Call’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. Peter Porter, ‘A Consumer’s Report’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Judith Wright, ‘Request To A Year’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Charles Tennyson Turner, ‘On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ozymandias’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. Stevie Smith, ‘Away, Melancholy’ ^{[PDF Guide]}

From Songs of Ourselves Volume 2, Part 4, the following 15 poems:

1. Elizabeth Thomas (‘Corinna’), ‘The Forsaken Wife’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. Philip Bourke Marston, ‘After’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. Algernon Charles Swinburne, ‘A Leave-Taking’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I Find No Peace’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. James Joyce, ‘I Hear an Army’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. Charlotte Mew, ‘Rooms’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. Robert Browning, ‘Love in a Life’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. Lauris Edmond, ‘Waterfall’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. Mary Monck (‘Marinda’), ‘Verses Written on Her Death-bed at Bath to Her Husband in London’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. A. R. D. Fairburn, ‘Rhyme of the Dead Self’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. Derek Walcott, ‘Nearing Forty’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. Elinor Morton Wylie, ‘Now Let No Charitable Hope’ ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. Alexander Pope, ‘From An Essay on Criticism’:
    • Part I ^[PDF]
    • Part II ^[PDF]
    • Part III ^[PDF]
15. Henry Wotton, ‘The Character of a Happy Life’ ^{[PDF Guide]}

Ted Hughes, the following 15 poems:

1. ‘The Thought-Fox‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
2. ‘The Harvest Moon‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
3. ‘The Jaguar‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
4. ‘Football at Slack‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
5. ‘The Horses‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
6. ‘Roe-Deer‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
7. ‘Wind‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
8. ‘A Memory‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
9. ‘Relic‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
10. ‘Telegraph Wires‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
11. ‘Hawk Roosting‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
12. ‘Anniversary‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
13. ‘Cat and Mouse‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
14. ‘The Other‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}
15. ‘Snowdrop‘ ^{[PDF Guide]}