A detailed, visually engaging 28-slide PowerPoint exploring Raman Mundair’s poem “Name Journeys” from the AQA Worlds and Lives poetry anthology.

This comprehensive resource supports students in developing a sophisticated understanding of the poem’s presentation of identity, migration, language, cultural heritage, belonging and assimilation. It is ideal for first teaching, revision, intervention sessions, homework or independent study.

The PowerPoint includes:

The complete poem
Detailed context on Raman Mundair
Relevant social and cultural context
Key themes, language, tone, form and structure
Hindu mythological references to Rama, Sita and Draupadi
Carefully selected key quotations
Detailed Grade 9 quotation analysis
Full line-by-line analysis
Ten sophisticated Grade 9 conceptual ideas
Discussion of names as cultural archives
Exploration of language loss and cultural erasure
Analysis of the “Anglo Echo chamber”
Suggested Grade 9 thesis statement
Comparison links to other Worlds and Lives poems
The strongest poems to compare with “Name Journeys”
Five developed analytical model paragraphs

Suggested comparisons include:

Homing
On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955
Like an Heiress
A Portable Paradise
Thirteen
Pot

The resource encourages students to move beyond basic identification of techniques and develop perceptive, conceptual interpretations suitable for the highest grades.

Suitable for AQA GCSE English Literature, particularly students studying the Worlds and Lives anthology.