For Students

A Message for Teachers and students (and all poetry readers!) from Gillian Clarke

Students tell me they find this web site useful.

“Hi there, I got my GCSE results today, and I’d just like to thank you for this website, which helped me greatly. The day before my English Lit. exam, I found it and it really changed and improved my view of how to analyse and write about poetry; but most importantly, it made me much more relaxed about approaching it and generally happier about doing the exam, as well as more informed about poetic techniques etc. Anyway, I got an A*, so I’d just like to thank you for helping me achieve that.”

It makes it all worthwhile!

Exam Tips
Letter
Resources
Alliteration A to Z:
Language of Poetry
Alliteration
Assonance
Enjambment
Iambic Pentameter
Lineation
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Rhythm
Simile
Sonnet
Syllables