Scars upon my Heart: Poem-by-Poem Guide for AS/A Level AQA A
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- AQA A A Level
Written from the heart, the poems in Reilly’s anthology express the collective experiences of women during World War I. Ready-to-use, detailed study notes help students understand the grief, loss and mindset of the female generation that endured the war with creative and comparative worksheets. Spec-specific – poems are grouped according to AQA suggested themes and approaches!
Stimulating Worksheets!
Creative and varied activities encourage active learning; each task groups poems for easy comparison across literary techniques, themes, form, structure, attitudes and values, and context.
Tackles the key stages of text analysis:
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Walk-through
Thorough poem-by-poem commentary -
Drawing it all together
Poems are grouped according to AQA suggested themes and literary approaches -
Indicative content
Supports teaching by ensuring all key areas are covered
Plus! Further reading suggestions encourage independent study and challenge higher-attaining pupils.
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Keywords
- A level English Literature
- A Level AQA A English Literature (7712)
- Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts
- WW1 and its aftermath
- A Level Comprehensive Guide
- A Level English Literature Comprehensive Guide
- A Level Activity Pack
- A Level English Literature Activity Pack
- Reilly
- Poetry
- ‘The Raiders’ by Marian Allen
- ‘The Wind on the Downs’ by Marian Allen
- ‘Leave in 1917’ by Lilian M Anderson
- ‘Education’ by Pauline Barrington
- ‘Munition Wages’ by Madeline Ida Bedford
- ‘The Parson’s Job’ by Madeline Ida Bedford
- ‘From a Trench’ by Maud Anna Bell
- ‘Drafts’ by Nora Bomford
- ‘Over the Top’ by Sybil Bristowe
- ‘The Lament of the Demobilised’ by Vera Brittain
- ‘Perhaps’ (To RAL Died of wounds in France, December 23rd 1915) by Vera Brittain
- ‘To My Brother’ (In memory of July 1st 1916) by Vera Brittain
- ‘Lamplight’ by May Wedderburn Cannan
- ‘Rouen’ by May Wedderburn Cannan
- ‘Since They Have Died’ by May Wedderburn Cannan
- ‘Love 1916’ by May Wedderburn Cannan
- ‘Anniversary of the Great Retreat’ by Isabel C Clarke
- ‘The Falling Leaves’ by Margaret Postgate Cole
- ‘Afterwards’ by Margaret Postgate Cole
- ‘Praematuri’ by Margaret Postgate Cole
- ‘The Veteran’ by Margaret Postgate Cole
- ‘Women at Munition Making’ by Mary Gabrielle Collins
- ‘Fallen’ by Alice Corbin
- ‘Zeppelins’ by Nancy Cunard
- ‘Flanders Fields’ by Elizabeth Daryush
- ‘For A Survivor of The Mesopotamian Campaign’ by Elizabeth Daryush
- ‘Subalterns’ by Elizabeth Daryush
- ‘Unknown Warrior’ by Elizabeth Daryush
- ‘After Bourlon Wood’ by Helen Dircks
- ‘London in War’ by Helen Dircks
- ‘Pluck’ by Eva Dobell
- ‘Gramophone Tunes’ by Eva Dobell
- ‘Night Duty’ by Eva Dobell
- ‘A Volunteer’ by Helen Parry Eden
- ‘Pierrot Goes to War’ by Gabrielle Elliot
- ‘Easter Monday’ (In Memoriam E.T) by Eleanor Farjeon
- ‘Peace’ by Eleanor Farjeon
- ‘Now That You Too’ by Eleanor Farjeon
- ‘A Fight to a Finish’ by S Gertrude Ford
- ‘Nature in War-Time’ by S Gertrude Ford
- ‘The Tenth Armistice Day’ by S Gertrude Ford
- ‘The Three Lads’ by Elizabeth Chandler Forman
- ‘Her “Allowance”!’ by Lillian Gard
- ‘The Lark Above the Trenches’ by Muriel Elsie Graham
- ‘The Battle of the Swamps’ by Muriel Elsie Graham
- ‘The Wykehamist’ by Nora Griffiths
- ‘The Fallen’ by Diana Gurney
- ‘Non-Combatant’ by Cicely Hamilton
- ‘The Ghouls’ by Helen Hamilton
- ‘The Jingo-Woman’ by Helen Hamilton
- ‘The Romancing Poet’ by Helen Hamilton
- ‘New Year 1916’ by Ada M Harrison
- ‘An Incident’ by Mary H J Henderson
- ‘Airman, RFC’ by Agnes Grozier Herbertson
- ‘The Seed-Merchant’s Son’ by Agnes Grozier Herbertson
- ‘For Valour’ by May Herschel-Clarke
- ‘Nothing to Report’ by May Herschel-Clarke
- ‘A War Film’ by Teresa Hooley
- ‘Dulce et Decorum?’ by Elinor Jenkins
- ‘Reported Missing’ by Anna Gordon Keown
- ‘The Lost Army’ by Margery Lawrence
- ‘Transport of Wounded in Mesopotamia 1917’ by Margery Lawrence
- ‘Casualty’ by Winifred M Letts
- ‘The Deserter’ by Winifred M Letts
- ‘Screens’(In a Hospital) by Winifred M Letts
- ‘What Reward?’ by Winifred M Letts
- ‘Despair’ by Olive E Lindsay
- ‘Convalescence’ by Amy Lowell
- ‘Picnic’ July 1917 by Rose Macaulay
- ‘The Shadow’ by Rose Macauley
- ‘Sing a Song of War-Time’ by Nina Macdonald
- ‘At the Movies’ by Florence Ripley Mastin
- ‘The Cenotaph’ by Charlotte Mew
- ‘May 1915’ by Charlotte Mew
- ‘June 1915’ by Charlotte Mew
- ‘Lord, I owe Thee a Death’ (Richard Hooker) by Alice Meynell
- ‘Summer in England 1914’ by Alice Meynell
- ‘He Went For a Soldier’ by Ruth Comfort Mitchell
- ‘On the Porch’ by Harriet Monroe
- ‘The Fields of Flanders’ by Edith Nesbit
- ‘Spring in War-Time’ by Edith Nesbit
- ‘Last Leave’ by Eileen Newton
- ‘Revision’ (For November 11th) by Eileen Newton
- ‘In a Restaurant’ 1917 by Eleanour Norton
- ‘Ambulance Train 30’ by Carola Oman
- ‘Brussels 1919’ by Carola Oman
- ‘The Minority’ by May O’Rourke
- ‘A Recruit from the Slums’ by Emily Orr
- ‘The Call’ by Jessie Pope
- ‘The Nut’s Birthday’ by Jessie Pope
- ‘Socks’ by Jessie Pope
- ‘War Girls’ by Jessie Pope
- ‘Sall’ (In aid of the Wounded Horses) by Inez Quilter
- ‘Remembrance Day in the Dales’ by Dorothy Una Ratcliffe
- ‘The Cenotaph’ by Ursula Roberts
- ‘A Memory’ by Margaret Sackville
- ‘Sacrament’ by Margaret Sackville
- ‘July 1st 1916’ by Aimee Byng Scott
- ‘Field Ambulance in Retreat’ (Via Dolorosa, Via Sacra) by May Sinclair
- ‘The Dancers’ (During a Great Battle 1916) by Edith Sitwell
- ‘The Convalescent’ by Cicely Fox Smith
- ‘Night on the Shore’ (Northumberland, August 6th 1914) by Marie Carmichael Stopes
- ‘Forgotten Dead, I Salute You’ by Muriel Stuart
- ‘One Night’ by Millicent Sutherland
- ‘YMCA’ by C.A.L.T.
- ‘Spring in War-Time’ by Sarah Teasdale
- ‘There Will Come Soft Rains’ by Sarah Teasdale
- ‘In Time of War’ by Lesbia Thanet
- ‘Invitation Au Festin’ (Invitation to the Feast) by Aelfrida Tillyard
- ‘A Letter from Ealing Broadway Station’ by Aelfrida Tillyard
- ‘Of All Who Died in Silence Far Away’ by Iris Tree
- 'And Afterwards, When Honour Has Made Good' by Iris Tree
- ‘The Hospital Visitor’ by Alys Fane Trotter
- ‘The Broken Soldier’ by Katharine Tynan
- ‘A Girl’s Song’ by Katharine Tynan
- ‘Joining The Colours’ (West Kents, Dublin, August 1914) by Katharine Tynan
- ‘Kensington Gardens’ (1915) by Viviane Verne
- ‘In a VAD Pantry’ by Alberta Vickridge
- ‘Autumn 1914’ by Mary Webb
- ‘The VAD Scullery-Maid’s Song’ by M Winifred Wedgwood
- ‘Christmas 1916’ Thoughts in a VAD Hospital Kitchen by M Winifred Wedgwood
- ‘The Poet and The Butcher’ by Catherine Durning Whetham
- ‘Christ in Flanders’ by Lucy Whitmell
- ‘Gervais’ (Killed at the Dardanelles) by Margaret Adelaide Wilson
- ‘To Tony (Aged 3)’ (In memory TPCW) by Marjorie Wilson