Edexcel IGCSE Poetry: Essay Planning + Example Paragraphs
Before writing your own essay, it can be helpful to go through a few different example answers that are around the specific level you’re aiming for. Here are a couple example paragraphs as well as essay planning based around Edexcel IGCSE Poetry.
How To Study Poetry (for Edexcel IGCSE Literature)
As a whole, Literature covers three forms of writing: poetry, prose (novels/stories) and drama (plays). In any GCSE or iGCSE exam, you’ll have to write essays about all three of these forms.
‘My Last Duchess’ - Context Analysis
Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess (1842) is one of the most famous dramatic monologues in Victorian poetry. It offers a chilling insight into the psychology of power, control, and jealousy. Understanding the poem requires knowledge of its historical, literary, and biographical contexts.
Edexcel IGCSE Poetry: Grade Boundaries + Mark Scheme
Before writing your own essay, it can be helpful to go through a few different example answers that are around the specific level you’re aiming for. It’s always good to read student exemplar scripts with examiner feedback too, to get an idea for how the essay will be marked. You also need to understand the mark scheme and the grade boundaries in detail.
Essay Questions: Edexcel IGCSE Poetry Anthology
Here are 20 Anthology questions taken from official Edexcel IGCSE Literature past papers - use these as a starting point for essay practice, theme revision, essay planning or full mock exams.