AS/A-Level Student Text Guide: The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy

Summary:
Each guide comprises three sections:
an Introduction, which outlines the aims of the guide, the relevant exam board specification and Assessment Objectives
Text Guidance, which gives coverage of key aspects of the text
Questions and Answers, which focuses on the various types of essay questions and offers specifmen plans and sample answers, together with mark schemes

• Succint and accessible coverage of all the key aspects of the set text, including contexts, themes, interpretations and controversies of the selected poems
  

• Clear outline of the exam board specifications and their Assessment Objectives
  

• Invaluable Question and Answer section with various types of questions, plans, mark schemes and answers
  

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Aims of the guide
Assessment Objectives
Revision advice
Writing examination essays
Text Guidance
Contexts
Life and works
The 1960s
Thatcherism
Feminism
Historical and mythological characters
Themes
Language
Images and motifs
Notes on the poems
Selected Poems
The World’s Wife
Literary terms and concepts
Questions and Answers
Essay questions, specimen plans and examiner notes
Sample essays
Further study

About the Author(s):
Marian Cox is a Head of English and an A-level literature teacher. She has written a range of Teacher Resource Packs, Student Text Guides and literary articles, and is an experienced examiner of A-level literature. Robert Swan is a head teacher and has extensive experience of teaching contemporary texts for A-level literature, as well as politics and history. He is also author of the Teacher Resource Pack on The Second World War Novel and Student Text Guides on Spies and Atonement, also published by Philip Allan Updates.