STAGE 6
Prescribed Poems
This is a complete list of all poems
included in the Stage 6 Prescriptions,
sorted by Course, Module and Elective.

STANDARD and ADVANCED - Area of Study: Discovery
Poetry
• Dobson, Rosemary
‘Young Girl at a Window’, ‘Wonder’, ‘Painter of Antwerp’, ‘Traveller’s Tale’, ‘The Tiger’, ‘Cock Crow’, ‘Ghost Town: New England’
• Frost, Robert
‘The Tuft of Flowers’, ‘Mending Wall’, ‘Home Burial’, ‘After Apple-Picking’, ‘Fire and Ice’, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’
• Gray, Robert
‘Journey: the North Coast’, ‘The Meatworks’, ‘North Coast Town’, ‘Late Ferry’, ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’, ‘Diptych’
ENGLISH (STANDARD) - Electives and Texts
Module A: Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Distinctive Voices
Poetry
• Komninos
‘back to melbourne’, ‘hillston welcome’, ‘cobar, july 1993’, ‘eat’, ‘noura from narooma’, ‘thomastown talk’
• Paterson, AB ‘Banjo’
‘Clancy of the Overflow’, ‘In Defence of the Bush’, ‘Old Pardon, the Son of Reprieve’, ‘A Bush Christening’, ‘Mulga Bill’s Bicycle’, ‘Saltbush Bill, J.P.’
Elective 2: Distinctly Visual
Poetry
• Stewart, Douglas
‘Lady Feeding the Cats’, ‘Wombat’, ‘The Snow-Gum’, ‘Nesting Time’, ‘The Moths’, ‘The Fireflies’, ‘Waterlily’, ‘Cave Painting’
Module B: Close Study of Text
Poetry
Students choose one of the following poets for study. All listed poems for that poet constitute the prescribed text.
• Noonuccal, Oodgeroo
‘Municipal Gum’, ‘Artist Son’, ‘The Past’, ‘China…Woman’, ‘Reed Flute Cave’, ‘Entombed Warriors’, ‘Visit to Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall’
• Owen, Wilfred
‘The Next War’, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’, ‘Insensibility’, ‘Futility’, ‘Strange Meeting’
Module C: Texts and Society
Elective 1: Exploring Interactions
Poetry
• Watson, Ken (ed), The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
Sujata Bhatt, ‘The Stare’; Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Head of English’, ‘Yes, Officer’;
UA Fanthorpe, ‘Reports’, ‘Not My Best Side’; Gwyneth Lewis, ‘Peripheral Vision’, ‘Good Dog!’
Elective 2: Exploring Transitions
Poetry
• Herrick, Steven, The Simple Gift
ENGLISH (ADVANCED) - Electives and Texts
Module A: Comparative Study of Texts and Contexts
Elective 1: Intertextual Connections
Poetry and prose fiction
• Tennyson, Alfred Lord
‘The Lady of Shalott’, ‘Tears, idle tears’, ‘In Memoriam A.H.H.’ – Cantos XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX
AND
• Anderson, Jessica, Tirra Lirra by the River
Poetry and drama
• Donne, John
‘The Sunne Rising’, ‘The Apparition’, ‘A Valediction: forbidding mourning’, ‘The Relique’, ‘This is my playes last scene’, ‘At the round earths imagin’d corners’, ‘If poysonous mineralls’, ‘Death be not proud’, ‘Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse’
AND
• Edson, Margaret, W;t
Elective 2: Intertextual Perspectives
Prose fiction and poetry
• Fitzgerald, F Scott, The Great Gatsby
AND
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Sonnets from the Portuguese – I, XIII, XIV, XXI, XXII, XXVIII, XXXII, XLIII
Prose fiction and poetry
• Joyce, James, Dubliners
AND
• Heaney, Seamus
‘Digging’, ‘Blackberry-Picking’, ‘Mid-Term Break’, ‘The Given Note’, ‘The Strand at Lough Beg’, ‘Casualty’, ‘Granite Chip’, ‘Clearances III’
Module B: Critical Study of Texts
Poetry
Students choose one of the following poets for study. All listed poems for that poet constitute the prescribed text.
• Eliot, TS
‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘Preludes’, ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’, ‘The Hollow Men’, ‘Journey of the Magi’
• Rossetti, Christina
‘Goblin Market’, ‘After Death’, ‘Maude Clare’, ‘Light Love’, ‘L.E.L.’, ‘In an Artist’s Studio’
• Yeats, William Butler
‘When You Are Old’, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘An Irish Airman Foresees his Death’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘Leda and the Swan’, ‘Among School Children’
Module C: Representation and Texts
Elective 1: Representing People and Politics
Poetry
• Auden, WH
‘O what is that sound which so thrills the ear’, ‘Spain’, ‘Epitaph on a Tyrant’, ‘In Memory of W.B. Yeats’, ‘September 1, 1939’, ‘The Unknown Citizen’, ‘The Shield of Achilles’
Elective 2: Representing People and Landscapes
Poetry
• Wright, Judith
‘The Hawthorn Hedge’, ‘Brothers and Sisters’, ‘South of My Days’, ‘For New England’, ‘Flame-tree in a Quarry’, ‘Train Journey’, ‘Moving South’
ENGLISH (ESL) - Area of Study: Discovery
Poetry
• Frost, Robert
‘The Tuft of Flowers’, ‘Mending Wall’, ‘Home Burial’, ‘After Apple-Picking’, ‘The Road Not Taken’, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’, ‘A Boundless Moment’
• Noonuccal, Oodgeroo
‘Last of His Tribe’, ‘Acacia Ridge’, ‘Municipal Gum’, ‘Son of Mine’, ‘Understand, Old One’, ‘We Are Going’, ‘The Past’
• Watson, Ken (ed), The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
Sujata Bhatt, ‘The Stare’;
Nina Cassian, ‘Evolution’;
Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Originally’;
Miroslav Holub, ’Brief Reflection on Accuracy’, ‘Brief Reflection on Test-Tubes’;
Gwyneth Lewis, ’The Reference Library’
Module A: Experience Through Language
Elective 1: Australian Voices
Poetry
• Komninos
‘back to melbourne’, ‘hillston welcome’, ‘cobar, july 1993’, ‘eat’, ‘noura from narooma’, ‘thomastown talk’
Elective 2: Autralian Visions
Poetry
• Stewart, Douglas
‘Lady Feeding the Cats’, ‘Wombat’, ‘The Snow-Gum’, ‘Nesting Time’, ‘The Moths’, ‘The Fireflies’, ‘Waterlily’, ‘Cave Painting’, ‘The Tailor Fishermen’
ENGLISH (EXTENSION 1)
Module A: Genre
Elective 1: Life Writing
Poetry
• Lowell, Robert
‘Grandparents’, ‘Commander Lowell’, ‘Terminal Days at Beverly Farms’, ‘Sailing Home from Rapallo’, ‘Waking in the Blue’, ‘Memories of West Street and Lepke’, ‘Man and Wife’, ‘Skunk Hour’
Module B: Text and Ways of Thinking
Elective 1: After the Bomb
Poetry
• Plath, Sylvia
‘Morning Song’, ‘The Applicant’, ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Daddy’, ‘Fever 103°’, ‘The Arrival of the Bee Box’, ‘Words’
Elective 2: Romanticism
Poetry
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (1834), ‘Frost at Midnight’, ‘Kubla Khan’
• Wordsworth, William
‘Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman’, ‘Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey’, ‘My heart leaps up when I behold’, ‘The world is too much with us’, ‘It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free’, ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’, Ode (‘There was a time’), ‘Surprized by joy – impatient as the Wind’, ‘The Prelude’ (1805) – Book One, lines 1–54, 271–441; Book Five, lines 389–413; Book Six, lines 491–542
Elective 3: Navigating the Global
Poetry
• Levertov, Denise
‘What Were They Like?’, ‘The Sun Going Down upon Our Wrath’, ‘The Malice of Innocence’, ‘A Place of Kindness’, ‘The Life of Others’, ‘What It Could Be’, ‘Talk in the Dark’
Module C: Language and Values
Elective 1: Textual Dynamics
Poetry
• Stevens, Wallace
‘The Snow Man’, ‘A High-Toned Old Christian Woman’, ‘Sunday Morning’, ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’, ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’, ‘Of Modern Poetry’, ‘Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour’
Elective 2: Language and Gender
Poetry
• Tranter, John, The Floor of Heaven