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Poetry about Relationships: 'Sonnet 116'

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Analyse Language in 'Before You Were Mine'

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Analyse Language in 'Climbing My Grandfather'

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Analyse Language in 'London'

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Analyse Language in 'My Last Duchess'

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Analyse Language in 'Ozymandias'

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Analyse language in 'Singh Song!'

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Analyse Language in 'The Prelude'

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Analyse Language in 'Winter Swans'

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Analyse Language in the Poem 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen

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Analyse Language in the Poem 'Storm on the Island' by Seamus Heaney

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Analyse the Language in 'Checking Out Me History'

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Analyse the Language in 'The Emigree' by Carol Rumens

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Analyse the Language Techniques Used in the Poem 'Kamikaze' by Beatrice Garland

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Analyse the Language Used in the Poem 'Poppies' by Jane Weir

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Apply Understanding of Language Techniques to 'The Emigree' and 'The Prelude' and Analyse The Effect

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Apply your Understanding and Analyse the Language in the Poem 'War Photographer'

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Apply your Understanding and Analyse the Language Techniques Used in the Poem 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker

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Apply Your Understanding of Language Techniques to both 'Poppies' and 'War Photographer' and Analyse Their Effect

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Apply Your Understanding of Language Techniques to both 'Tissue' and 'Ozymandias' and Analyse their Effect.

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Compare and Evaluate the Effectiveness and Presentation of Ideas in 'Before You Were Mine' and Other Poems

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Compare and Evaluate the Effectiveness and Presentation of Ideas in 'My Last Duchess'

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Compare and Evaluate the Effectiveness and Presentation of Ideas in 'Ozymandias'

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Compare and Evaluate the Effectiveness and Presentation of Ideas in 'Singh Song!' and Other Poems

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Compare and Evaluate the Effectiveness and Presentation of Ideas in 'Winter Swans' and Other Poems

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Compare and Evaluate the Effectiveness and Presentation of Ideas in Extract from 'The Prelude' and other Poems

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Compare and Evaluate the Presentation and Effectiveness of ideas in 'London'

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Compare Content in 'Before You Were Mine' and Other Poems

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Compare Content in 'Climbing My Grandfather' and Other Poems

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Compare Content in 'London' and Other Poems

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Compare Content in 'My Last Duchess' and other Poems

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Compare Content in 'Ozymandias' and Other Poems

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Compare Content in 'Singh Song!' and other poems

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Compare Content in 'The Prelude' and Other Poems

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Compare Content in 'Winter Swans' and Other Poems

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Compare Language in 'Before You Were Mine' and Other Poems

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Compare Language in 'London' and Other Poems

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Compare Language in 'My Last Duchess' and other Poems

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Compare Language in 'Ozymandias' and Other Poems

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Compare Language in 'Singh Song!' and Other Poems

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Compare Language in Extract from 'The Prelude' and other Poems

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Compare the Content in 'Checking Out Me History' and 'London'

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Compare the Content in 'Exposure' with Other Poems.

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Compare the Content in 'Storm on the Island' with Other Poems

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Compare the Content in Both 'Kamikaze' and 'Poppies'

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Compare the Language in 'Checking Out Me History' and 'London'

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Compare the Language in 'Exposure' and Other Poems.

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Compare the Language in 'Remains' by Simon Armitage and 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy

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Compare the Language in 'Storm on the Island' with Other Poems

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Compare the Language in 'Winter Swans' and Other Poems

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Compare the Language in Both 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson and 'Bayonet Charge' by Ted Hughes

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Compare the Language Techniques in Both 'Kamikaze' and 'Poppies' and Analyse the Effect

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Comparing and Evaluating the Effectiveness and Presentation of ideas in 'Climbing My Grandfather'

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Comparing Language in 'Climbing My Grandfather' and Other Poems

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Describe and Explain the Key Contextual Features of 'The Emigree' by Carol Rumens

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Describe and Explain the Key Contextual Features of the Poem 'Checking Out Me History'

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Describe and Explain the Key Contextual Features of the Poem 'Kamikaze' by Beatrice Garland

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Describe and Explain the Key Contextual Features of the Poem 'Poppies' by Jane Weir

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Describe and Explain the Key Contextual Features of the Poem 'Remains' by Simon Armitage

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Describe and Explain the Key Contextual features of the Poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'

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Describe and Explain the Key Contextual Features of the Poem 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker

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Describe and Explain the Key Contextual Features of the Poem 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy

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Evaluate and Compare Ideas in 'The Emigree' by Carol Rumens and 'The Prelude' by William Wordsworth

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Evaluate and Compare the Ideas in 'Remains' by Simon Armitage and 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy

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Evaluate and Compare the poets' ideas in both 'Kamikaze' by Beatrice Garland and 'Poppies' by Jane Weir

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Evaluate and Compare the Writer's Ideas in both 'Checking Out Me History' and 'London'

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Evaluate and Compare the Writer's Ideas in both 'Poppies' by Jane Weir and 'War Photographer' by Carol Anne Duffy

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Evaluate and Compare the Writer's Ideas in Both 'Remains' by Simon Armitage and 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy

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Evaluate and Compare the Writer's ideas in both 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and 'Bayonet Charge' by Ted Hughes

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Evaluate and Compare the Writer's Ideas in Both 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker and 'Ozymandias' by Percy Shelley.

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Evaluate Language and Techniques in the Poem 'Storm on the Island' by Seamus Heaney

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Evaluate Language Techniques in 'Before You Were Mine'

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Evaluate Language Techniques in 'Climbing My Grandfather'

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Evaluate Language Techniques in 'London'

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Evaluate Language Techniques in 'My Last Duchess'

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Evaluate Language Techniques in 'Winter Swans'

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Evaluate Language Techniques in the Extract from 'The Prelude'

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Evaluate Language Techniques in the Poem 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen

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Evaluate the Effectiveness and Presentation of Themes in the Poem 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen

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Evaluate the Effectiveness and Presentation of Themes in the Poem 'Storm on the Island' by Seamus Heaney

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of Presentation of Themes in 'Before You Were Mine'

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of Presentation of Themes in 'Climbing My Grandfather'

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of Presentation of Themes in 'London'

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of Presentation of Themes in 'My Last Duchess'

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of Presentation of Themes in 'Winter Swans'

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of Presentation of Themes in the Poem 'Checking Out Me History'

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Key Themes in 'The Emigree' by Carol Rumens

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Key Themes in the Poem 'Kamikaze' by Beatrice Garland.

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Key Themes in the Poem 'Poppies' by Jane Weir

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Key Themes in the Poem 'Remains'

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Key Themes in the Poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Key Themes in the Poem 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker.

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Key Themes in the poem 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Presentation of Key Themes in 'The Prelude'

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Evaluate the Effectiveness of Theme Presentation in 'Singh Song!'

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Evaluate the Language Techniques in 'Checking Out Me History'

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Evaluate the Language Techniques Used in 'The Emigree' by Carol Rumens

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Evaluate the Language Techniques Used in the Poem 'Kamikaze' by Beatrice Garland

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Evaluate the Language Techniques used in the poem 'Poppies' by Jane Weir

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Evaluate the Language Techniques Used in the Poem 'Remains'

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Evaluate the Language Techniques Used in the Poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

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Evaluate the Language Techniques Used in the Poem 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker

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Evaluate the Language Techniques Used in the Poem 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy

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Explore Context in 'Before You Were Mine'

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Explore Context in 'Singh Song!'

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Explore Context in 'The Prelude'

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Explore Context in 'Winter Swans'

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Explore Contextual Information in 'Storm on the Island' by Seamus Heaney

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Explore How Key Themes Develop in the Poem 'Checking Out Me History'

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Explore How the Key Themes Develop in 'The Emigree' by Carol Rumens

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Explore How the Key Themes Develop in the Poem 'Kamikaze' by Beatrice Garland

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Explore How the Key Themes Develop in the Poem 'Poppies' by Jane Weir

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Explore How the Key Themes Develop in the Poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Explore How the Key Themes Develop in the Poem 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker

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Explore How the Key Themes Develop in the Poem 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy

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Explore How Themes Develop in 'Before You Were Mine'

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Explore How Themes Develop in 'Climbing My Grandfather'

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Explore How Themes Develop in 'London'

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Explore How Themes Develop in 'My Last Duchess'

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Explore How Themes Develop in 'Ozymandias'

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Explore How Themes Develop in 'Singh Song!'

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Explore How Themes Develop in 'The Prelude'

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Explore How Themes Develop in 'Winter Swans'

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Explore How Themes Develop in the Poem 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen

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Explore how Themes Develop in the Poem 'Storm on the Island' by Seamus Heaney

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Explore the Development of Key Themes in the Poem 'Remains'

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Exploring Context in 'Climbing My Grandfather'

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Exploring Context in 'London'

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Exploring Context in 'My Last Duchess'

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Identify and Compare Key Content in 'Remains' by Simon Armitage and 'War Photographer' by Carol Ann Duffy

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Identify and Explain Key Contextual Features in 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen

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Identify and Explain Key Quotations from 'London'

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Identify and Explain Key Quotations in 'Climbing My Grandfather'

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Identify and Explain Key Quotations in 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen

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Identify and Explain Key Quotations in the Poem 'Remains' by Simon Armitage

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Identify and Explain Key Quotations in the Poem 'Storm on the Island'

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Identify and Explain Key Quotes in 'My Last Duchess'

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Identify and Explain Key Quotes in 'Singh Song!'

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Identify and Explain Key Quotes in 'The Prelude'

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Identify and Explain Key Quotes in 'Winter Swans'

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Identify and Explain Key Themes in 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen

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Identify and Explain Key Themes in 'Storm on the Island' by Seamus Heaney

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Identify and Explain the Key Quotes in 'Poppies' by Jane Weir

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Identify and Explain the Key Quotes in the poem 'Checking Out Me History' by John Agard

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Identify and Explain the Key Quotes in the poem 'Kamikaze' by Beatrice Garland

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Identify and Explain the Key Quotes in the poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Identify and Explain the Key Quotes in the Poem 'The Emigree' by Carol Rumens

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Identify and Explain the Key Quotes in the Poem 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker

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Identify and Explain The Key Quotes in The Poem 'War Photographer'

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Identify and Explain the Key Themes 'Checking Out Me History'

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Identify and Explain the Key Themes in 'The Emigree' by Carol Rumens

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Identify and Explain the Key Themes in the Poem 'Kamikaze' by Beatrice Garland

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Identify and Explain the Key Themes in the poem 'Poppies' by Jane Weir

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Identify and Explain the Key Themes in the Poem 'Remains'

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Identify and Explain the Key Themes in the Poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'

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Identify and Explain the Key Themes in the Poem 'Tissue' by Imtiaz Dharker

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Identify and Explain the Key Themes in the poem 'War Photographer'

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Identify Key Content in both 'Poppies' and 'War Photographer' and Explain How They Compare

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Identify Key Content in Both 'Tissue' and 'Ozymandias' and Explain How They Compare.

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Identify Key Content in Both 'War Photographer' and 'Remains' and Explain How They Compare

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Identify Key Quotes in 'Before You Were Mine'

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Identify Key Themes in 'Before You Were Mine'

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Identify Key Themes in 'Climbing My Grandfather'

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Identify Key Themes in 'My Last Duchess'

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Identify Key Themes in 'Ozymandias'

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Identify Key Themes in 'Singh Song!'

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Identify Key Themes in 'The Prelude'

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Identify Key Themes in 'Winter Swans'

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Identify the Key Content in both 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and 'Bayonet Charge' and Explain How They Compare

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Identify the Key Content in Both 'The Emigree' and 'The Prelude' and Explain How They Compare

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Identifying Key Themes in 'London'

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Poetry about Conflict: 'Futility'

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Poetry about Conflict: 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'

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Poetry about Relationships: 'Sister Maude'

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Poetry about Relationships: 'Sonnet 43'

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Poetry about Relationships: 'The Farmer's Bride'

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Reading Poetry: 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'

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Reading Poetry: 'The Haunted Palace'

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The Romantics: 'London' by William Blake

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Understand and Analyse Language Technique in 'Remains' and 'War Photographer'

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Understand and Analyse the Language Techniques Used in the Poem 'Remains'

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Understand and Analyse the Language Techniques Used in the Poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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