AQA Love and Relationships Poetry Anthology

This section delves into the fifteen poems featured in the AQA Love and Relationships GCSE Poetry Anthology. Follow the links below to access the Poems page, where you'll find in-depth analyses and the poems themselves.

The AQA Love and Relationships poems include: Before You Were Mine, Climbing My Grandfather, Eden Rock, The Farmer’s Bride, Follower, Letters from Yorkshire, Love’s Philosophy, Mother, Any Distance, Neutral Tones, Porphyria’s Lover, Singh Song, Sonnet 29 ‘I Think of Thee’, Walking Away, When We Two Parted and  Winter Swans.

Before You Were Mine by Carol Ann Duffy 

Climbing My Grandfather by Andrew Waterhouse 

Eden Rock by Charles Causley 

The Farmer’s Bride by Charlotte Mew 

Follower by Seamus Heaney 

Letters from Yorkshire by Maura Dooley 

Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley 

Mother, Any Distance by Simon Armitage 

Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy 

Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning 

Singh Song by Daljit Nagra 

Sonnet 29 ‘I Think of Thee’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 

Walking Away by Cecil Day Lewis 

When We Two Parted by Lord Byron 

Winter Swans by Owen Sheers 

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