does anybody know where i can find any websites that hve poems from these authors explained in detail. alos if there are any websites that helps with english literature exam help and exam techniques.

i dont know any websites,
but im doing GCSE english too and i have my anthology full of notes here if you want help,
i can explain them well as i had to help my friend with them too!
im doing carol ann duffy, simon armatige, cluster 2 different cultures, and all the pre 1914 poems :)
oh and the short storysss.
email me : polly_pocket35@hotmail.co.uk

I dont but if you find any I would appreciate it if you could forward any addresses onto me at lpayne_1992@yahoo.co.uk!

By any chance are you currently sitting your GCSE's?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/

i think this really is the best site, if you dont like it, go to whsmith because they have a good stock of books to help, my friends have some and say they're good

Good Luck on Tuesday :) GCSE's are a bummer

x

I've been looking too and Bitesize is the only one I can find and it's not very good.
I realise it's probably too late now, but there are some helpful CGP English Anthologys which you could try and buy, however seeing as it's Sunday now, the shops will be closed today, so you'd have to go out on Monday to buy it which would waste your revision time anyway as your exam is on Tuesday.
I'd just look over your notes if I were you and good luck!

Can I please say, "GCSEs" has NOT an apostrophe. It's annoying to arrive on a webpage to read about things about the English language when the people trying to help are ignorant towards it and have a general lack of the fundamental base of the language. To clear it up, would the word "GCSE", be followed by an apostrophe? No, it wouldn't, and for that reason nor would "GCSEs", because a well-known rule is, that, when making a word PLURAL, no apostrophe is added. That is simply what you do with the word "GCSE", make it plural, therefore the apostrophe is incorrectly placed into the word.

As goes for sources, I'd say try www.sparknotes.com. It is a large collection of free, on-line study guides. Have a look round there, I'm doing my GCSE tomorrow also, so this may be too late, but don't worry - I haven't revised much either. Good luck, and my advice is to learn the techniques used in poems rather than the actual poems, so you can analyse any poem presented, it's too late to learn them now. Look for ambiguity, alliteration, repetition for effect, exagerration, etc.

And use the almighty PEE in the exam. Point/evidence/explanation. Remember to do the two most strongly related poems most through the essay, bring the 3rd in for a couple of paragraphs later on in less detail in relation to the main two, then bring the fourth in very briefly and just say how it's related to the other three.

Goodbye, and good luck to all with their exams!