Favourite Anthology AQA poems

|If any. Got any faves from the AQA Anthology?

I really liked Carol Ann Duffy, a very good poet. I also like a few of the first poems in Cluster 2. Like Half-caste, unrelated incidents, Search for my tongue.

Reply 1

Funkymonk

I like "Love after Love" by Derek Walcott.

Reply 2

staylor

2

I dont care because I NEVER HAVE TO READ THEM AGAIN!!!

Reply 3

staylor

2

Though I rather liked Havisham :biggrin:

Reply 4

OppressedMass

13

Do you still do 'hearts and partners'?

I loved To His Coy Mistress by Marvell, and Armitage as well.

Reply 5

dumdum123

"Catrin", "Cold Knap Lake", and "Limbo" are my favourites from the Anthology

Reply 6

Mark S

17

The pre 1900 poems were good. I like sonnet 130, the laboratory, my lust dutchess and the carol anne duffy poem havisham, all these quite melancholy and bitter poems, but work really well. Sonnet 130 is just about love

Reply 7

FyreFight

14

Inversnaid because I agree and it doesn't show an unhealthy obsession with psychopaths.

Reply 8

Funkymonk

Oh yeah, forgot about the Pre 1900 ones...I love "Sonnet" by John Clare [I think that's the name] and "Tichbourne's Elegy" by Tichbourne.

Reply 9

Divine89

1

All the poems are atrocias except blessing and patrolling branegeat Anyway who cares?!?! NEVER AGAIN! YAY!

Reply 10

Mark S

17

Just because there are poems in there i like, doesnt mean i wont enjoy watching it burn *pulls evil grin*

Reply 11

hatty341

8

hmm.. i like half caste.

Reply 12

Jag Singh

i stopped thinking about those last friday!

Reply 13

soulsussed

1

Don't have any specefic favourite coz generally love looking at poetry. But will say I hated Education for leisure but loved: before u were mine, Nothing changes, night of the scorpion and Vultures

Reply 14

xlouisedoll

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staylor

I dont care because I NEVER HAVE TO READ THEM AGAIN!!!

I share the feeling!! That anthology was just the epitomy of boredom in all our English lessons..so glad I didn't choose to do either English next year.

I do have one favourite though - "Nothing's Changed" in the 1st cluster.

Reply 15

shyopstv

15

I did it last year and did Cluster 1 and some of Cluster 2. My favourites were Limbo (has anyone seen that video with the guy reading it - fairly amusing for about 10 seconds), Search for My Tongue, Havisham, Nothing's Changed and that one about the guy whose son died (can't remember the name). The only ones I didn't like were Island Man, Two Scavengers in a blah blah blah and Education for Leisure

Reply 16

eXis

OP

1

I hated Cluster 1. I thoughht they were all terrible. I died when 'Hurricane Hits England' came up, because i really didnt know what to put.

Reply 17

soulsussed

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shyopstv

I did it last year and did Cluster 1 and some of Cluster 2. My favourites were Limbo (has anyone seen that video with the guy reading it - fairly amusing for about 10 seconds), Search for My Tongue, Havisham, Nothing's Changed and that one about the guy whose son died (can't remember the name). The only ones I didn't like were Island Man, Two Scavengers in a blah blah blah and Education for Leisure