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All 15 poems in the Edexcel Conflict anthology. Conflict is explored in many forms — war and violence, prejudice and racism, family tension, internal struggle and the politics of class.
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Full study pages for these poems are in development. Many are still in copyright, so we will provide key quotations, analysis and comparison notes rather than the full text.
Rights notice. Seven of the fifteen Edexcel Conflict poems remain in copyright — including Clarke’s Catrin (© Carcanet Press), Weir’s Poppies (© Templar Poetry) and Zephaniah’s No Problem (© Zephaniah estate). Quotations on individual set-text pages are short fair-dealing extracts under CDPA 1988 §30 (criticism, review, quotation). For full text, students should consult the board-licensed Pearson Edexcel Poetry Anthology. For extended quotation use beyond fair-dealing extracts, contact the relevant publisher directly.
William Wordsworth
A boy steals a boat and is confronted by the awesome force of nature.
Thomas Hardy
A soldier reflects on killing a man who could have been his friend.
Christina Rossetti
A betrayed woman confronts her cousin and the lord who used them both.
John Agard
A defiant challenge to a racist label, written in Caribbean Creole.
Wilfred Owen
WWI soldiers freeze to death while nothing happens at the front.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Six hundred cavalry ride into certain death with unwavering duty.
Gillian Clarke
A mother remembers giving birth and the ongoing tug of love and conflict.
Carole Satyamurti
Images of suffering develop in a quiet, sterile darkroom.
Ciaran Carson
A bomb in Belfast turns punctuation and street names into shrapnel.
Mary Casey
A defiant working-class voice rejects the markers of middle-class judgement.
Jane Weir
A mother tenderly remembers her son leaving for war.
Benjamin Zephaniah
A sharp critique of how stereotypes box in young Black men.
Denise Levertov
Question and answer voices mourn a culture obliterated by war.
Edexcel often pairs a war poem with a poem about a different kind of conflict (personal, racial or class-based). Practice pairing The Charge of the Light Brigade with Half-caste, or Exposure with A Poison Tree — the differences in form and tone give you plenty to write about.