K5EL6 Compulsory contemporary poetry personal learning checklist

Edexcel A-level English Literature · Compulsory contemporary selection

Name ____________________ Class __________ Date __________

Tick one box per statement. Red: need help. Amber: partly confident. Green: can do independently.

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Eat Me — Patience Agbabi
evaluate how Agbabi's constructed voice develops appetite, power and the unsettled reversal
Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass — Simon Armitage
analyse the narrator-machine relationship, disproportion and the consequences of regrowth
Material — Ros Barber
explain how a recurring household object connects humour, care, nostalgia and present choice
History — John Burnside
analyse the relation between public apprehension, bodily attachment and attentive local life
An Easy Passage — Julia Copus
trace perspective and spatial movement to evaluate the relation between literal entry and growing opportunity
The Deliverer — Tishani Doshi
evaluate how shifting frames and unequal knowledge complicate a completed-rescue narrative
The Lammas Hireling — Ian Duhig
evaluate the farmer's account through reported perception, folklore, violence and recurrent confession
To My Nine-Year-Old Self — Helen Dunmore
analyse the imagined temporal address and its changing relation between bodily continuity and separation
A Minor Role — U A Fanthorpe
evaluate the developed theatrical analogy and the labour behind the final affirmation
The Gun — Vicki Feaver
analyse the movement from domestic intrusion to participation and the tension between vitality and killing
The Furthest Distances I've Travelled — Leontia Flynn
explain how retrospective voice and surviving objects revise the poem's initial account of travel
Giuseppe — Roderick Ford
evaluate layered testimony, contested personhood and the uncle's attempted justification
Out of the Bag — Seamus Heaney
analyse how the sequence relates childhood explanation, learned healing accounts and the returning maternal voice
Effects — Alan Jenkins
evaluate how touch, possessions and retrospective self-implication develop the account of loss
Genetics — Sinéad Morrissey
explain the adapted returns, embodied parental connection and final prospective address
From the Journal of a Disappointed Man — Andrew Motion
evaluate the observer's explanatory limits and the relation between work, silence and incomplete resolution
Look We Have Coming to Dover! — Daljit Nagra
analyse constructed collective voice, verbal invention and the final imagined future
Please Hold — Ciaran O'Driscoll
evaluate the relation between formulaic service voices, repeated waiting and meaningful agency
On Her Blindness — Adam Thorpe
analyse private distress, unequal access and the ending's limits of reassurance
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn — Tim Turnbull
evaluate ekphrastic address, contrasting registers and imagined future cultural judgement

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