Belonging overview — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Belonging overview
Overview
What you need to know
The 15 Belonging poems at a glance: poet, date, form and what each says about belonging, from six poems written between 1798 and about 1873 to nine written since 1983.
A map of which poems compare well on each likely theme, so you can choose a fitting partner for any named poem and question.
Childhood and memory: I Remember, I Remember; Captain Cook (To My Brother); Mild the Mist Upon the Hill; Sunday Dip; Clear and Gentle Stream; Kumukanda.
Home and a sense of place: Island Man; Peckham Rye Lane; The Émigrée; My Mother's Kitchen; Mild the Mist Upon the Hill; In Wales, wanting to be Italian.
Family: To My Sister; Captain Cook (To My Brother); I Remember, I Remember; My Mother's Kitchen; Kumukanda; Jamaican British.
Nature: To My Sister; Sunday Dip; Mild the Mist Upon the Hill; Clear and Gentle Stream; I Remember, I Remember; Island Man.
Identity and heritage: Jamaican British; Us; Kumukanda; In Wales, wanting to be Italian; Island Man.
Displacement, exile and refuge: We Refugees; The Émigrée; My Mother's Kitchen; Island Man; Kumukanda.
Community and togetherness: Us; We Refugees; Sunday Dip; Peckham Rye Lane; To My Sister.
Loss and change over time: Captain Cook (To My Brother); I Remember, I Remember; The Émigrée; My Mother's Kitchen; Clear and Gentle Stream.
Language and words: Us; In Wales, wanting to be Italian; Kumukanda; Jamaican British; The Émigrée.
The themes set so far (recollections of the past in 2023, a location in 2024 and childhood in 2025) and two or three strong partners for every poem.
