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Analysing poetry for
GCSE English Literature
Simon Armitage

These resources will be of particular use to those of you who are studying the AQA specification for GCSE. If you are studying the poem for the first time, you might like to work through all the activities on each poem. However, if you have already been taught these poems and are revising, you might like to choose some of the activities to develop your existing knowledge.

  
  • Simon Armitage
Kid Task 1
  This poem can be viewed as a poem about growing up, but   you may have noticed the way it seems to refer to the  
  cartoon character Batman in the very first word.

· Click here to find out about Batman -
and the other characters associated with him.
Then have a go at the following quiz!
 

 

 
  • Simon Armitage Kid Task 2
 
Now go back to Armitage’s poem, and read through
  it again.

 

  


 




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