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For use by members of the English faculty at Dulwich College Suzhou, in Suzhou, China. = =
 * =  ||= **Core**
 * Poems** ||= **Suggested**
 * Poems** ||= **Literary terms**
 * and forms** ||= **Essential**
 * ideas and**
 * background**
 * info** ||= **Grammar**
 * and**
 * writing** ||
 * = **7** || * Shakespeare, Seven Ages of Man || * Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
 * Milligan, Unto Us
 * MacNeice, Prayer Before Birth
 * Brock, Five Ways to Kill a Man || * metaphors
 * similes
 * alliteration
 * assonance
 * consonance
 * sibilance
 * m/f sounds
 * oxymoron || * perspectives
 * satire
 * high/low language ||  ||
 * = **8** || * Carroll, 'Jabberwocky'
 * Kipling, 'If' || * Brooke, The Soldier
 * McGough, Why Patriots Are A Bit Nuts in the Head
 * Sassoon, Suicide in the Trenches
 * || * tautology
 * redundancy
 * bathos
 * limericks || * viewpoint ||  ||
 * = **9** || * Frost, 'The Road Not Taken'
 * 'Sir Patrick Spens'
 * Shakespeare, 'Sonnet 73' || * Smith, 'Not Waving But Drowning'
 * Rossetti, 'Up-hill'
 * Kipling, 'The Way Through the Woods'
 * Masefield, 'Sea-fever'
 * Donne, 'Death, Be Not Proud'
 * Hayden, 'Those Winter Sundays'
 * Frost, 'Acquainted with the Night' || * ballad
 * sonnet
 * stanza
 * rhyme scheme
 * allusion
 * pathos/tragedy || * the journey of life
 * life = one cycle of the seasons
 * life = sun-up to sundown ||  ||
 * = **10/11** || * Coleridge, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
 * Whitman, 'Song of Myself' (excerpts) || * Longfellow, 'The Slave's Dream
 * Arnold, 'Dover Beach'
 * Browning, My Last Duchess || * metre
 * foot / feet
 * iambic pentameter || * Romanticism ||  ||