Component 1: Poetry - Section B: Poetry post-1900 (open-book, clean copy) — Eduqas A-Level English Literature
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- Section B is based on the study of two post-1900 paired poetry texts from the list below:
- Thomas Hardy: Poems selected by Tom Paulin (Faber) (Prescribed sections: Poems of the Past and Present, Poems of 1912-13, Moments of Vision) & T S Eliot: Selected Poems (Faber) (Prescribed sections: Prufrock and Other Observations, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ariel Poems)
- D H Lawrence: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics, edited by James Fenton) (Prescribed sections: Love Poems and Others, Amores, New Poems, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, Last Poems) & Gillian Clarke: Making the Beds for the Dead (Carcanet) (for assessment in summer 2020 and 2021 only)
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- W. B. Yeats: Poems selected by Seamus Heaney (Faber) (prescribed sections: In the Seven Woods, The Green Helmet and Other Poems, Responsibilities, The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer, The Tower) & Dannie Abse: Welsh Retrospective (Seren) (for assessment from summer 2022 onwards)
- Ted Hughes: Poems selected by Simon Armitage (Faber) (Prescribed section: all poems up to and including 'Rain' on page 68) & Sylvia Plath: Poems selected by Ted Hughes (Faber)
- Philip Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings (Faber) & Carol Ann Duffy: Mean Time (Picador)
- Seamus Heaney: Field Work (Faber) & Owen Sheers: Skirrid Hill (Seren)
- Where prescribed sections of the text are indicated, only poems from these sections are required for study and reference in the examination.
- Discussion of any poems outside these sections will not gain credit.
- Section B requires candidates to respond to one question from a choice of two on each pair of texts.
- In this section, candidates will need to demonstrate that in addition to the skills above, they can explore connections across their chosen set poetry texts.