“Poppies” by Jane Weir, GCSE poetry. The poem: Poppies by Jane Weir Three days before Armistice Sunday and poppies had already been placed on individual war graves. Before you left, I pinned one onto your lapel, crimped petals, spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias binding around your blazer. Sellotape bandaged around […]
‘London’ by William Blake, GCSE poetry.
‘London’ by William Blake, GCSE poetry. The poem: London by William Blake I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow. And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in […]
‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ – Alfred Lord Tennyson, GCSE poetry
The Charge of the Light Brigade – Alfred Lord Tennyson AQA Power and Conflict Essay The poem: ‘ The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson I Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for […]
‘ Bayonet Charge’ by Ted Hughes, GCSE poetry
Exploring Conflict, Chaos, and Humanity in Ted Hughes’ Bayonet Charge The poem: Bayonet Charge by Ted Hughes Suddenly he awoke and was running – raw In raw-seamed hot khaki, his sweat heavy, Stumbling across a field of clods towards a green hedge That dazzled with rifle fire, hearing Bullets smacking the belly out of the […]