Time and Place overview — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Time and Place overview
Overview
What you need to know
The 15 poems at a glance: their poets, dates and forms, and a map of which poems compare well on each theme (time passing, memory and loss, nature and the seasons, the sea and the power of nature, cities, journeys, home and belonging).
A table of the 15 poems: poet, date, form and one key quotation each.
Time passing and memory: To Autumn, Where the Picnic was, Adlestrop, Absence and Nothing's Changed. Loss and absence: Where the Picnic was and Absence.
Nature and the seasons: To Autumn, Adlestrop, Home Thoughts from Abroad and In Romney Marsh. The sea and the power of nature: I started Early – Took my Dog, Hurricane Hits England, Stewart Island and In Romney Marsh.
Cities and what they hide: Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802, London and Nothing's Changed. Journeys and travellers: First Flight, Adlestrop, Postcard from a Travel Snob and Stewart Island.
Home, exile and two cultures: Home Thoughts from Abroad, Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan, Hurricane Hits England, Stewart Island and Nothing's Changed.
The themes set so far (an event in 2023, travelling in 2024 and the passage of time in 2025) and the strongest partner poems for each.
Pairs that contrast well: two views of London (Wordsworth and Blake), a moment of stillness and a moment of storm (Adlestrop and Hurricane Hits England), longing for home and choosing to leave it (Home Thoughts from Abroad and Stewart Island).
Forms across the collection: the ode, the sonnet, ballad quatrains, rhymed stanzas, free verse and the dramatic monologue, and the range of dates, from London (1794) to Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan (2000).
