Philip Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings: Comprehensive Guide for AS/A Level WJEC (Wales) and Eduqas
- WJEC AS
- Eduqas A Level
Delve into the penetrating truths of everyday life with Larkin’s observant and honest poetry collection. From matters of marriage to points on parenting, this comprehensive and in-depth guide ensures thorough understanding of the collection’s universal and poignant themes.
Goes into detail on all the poems and engages with the complexities and subtleties and contradictions of Larkin's work...
...Unusual to find this depth and breadth of support
Engage your students!
Throughout:
- debate prompts
- active learning tasks
- practice essay questions
Tackles the key stages of text analysis:
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Walk-through
Thorough section-by-section commentary walks students through each poem -
Drawing it all together
In-depth discussion of whole collection focuses on: language, structure, form, context, themes and critical reception -
Indicative content
Supports teaching by ensuring all key areas are covered
Plus!
- Glossary of key terms
- Further reading suggestions
- Comparative notes on Carol Ann Duffy’s Mean Time
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A very thorough explanation of all the poems in the collection with useful critical reception/contextual information... The tasks are interesting and varied. Some good debate prompts. ... It goes into detail on all the poems and engages with the complexities and subtleties and contradictions of Larkin's work... Unusual to find this depth and breadth of support.
Keywords
- A Level Comprehensive Guide
- A Level Eduqas English Literature (QA720)
- A level English Literature
- A Level English Literature Comprehensive Guide
- ‘A Study of Reading Habits’
- ‘Afternoons’
- ‘Ambulances’
- ‘An Arundel Tomb’
- ‘As Bad as a Mile’
- ‘Broadcast’
- Component 1: Poetry
- ‘Days’
- ‘Dockery and Son’
- ‘Essential Beauty’
- ‘Faith Healing’
- ‘First Sight’
- ‘For Sidney Bechet’
- ‘Here’
- ‘Home is So Sad’
- ‘Ignorance’
- ‘Love Songs in Age’
- ‘MCMXIV’
- ‘Mr Bleaney’
- ‘Naturally the Foundation Will Bear Your Expenses’
- ‘Nothing to be Said’
- Philip Larkin
- Poetry
- Post-1900
- ‘Reference Back’
- ‘Self’s the Man’
- ‘Send No Money’
- ‘Sunny Prestatyn’
- ‘Take One Home for the Kiddies’
- ‘Talking in Bed’
- ‘The Importance of Elsewhere’
- ‘The Large Cool Store’
- The Whitsun Weddings
- ‘Toads Revisited’
- ‘Water’
- ‘Wild Oats’