Adrienne Rich’s mysterious poem suggests we all have something to make up for – but what?
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Category: IGCSE Literature
Not Waving But Drowning
Stevie Smith asks if we couldn’t all do a little more to help from time to time.
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In Praise of Creation
Faith is stronger than doubt in this eulogy by Elizabeth Jennings.
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Ode on Melancholy
Go with John Keats on a quest to find Joy in the mystical realm of Lethe.
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Little Boy Crying
Mervyn Morris debates if it’s ever right to smack a child.
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Mid-Term Break
Seamus Heaney shares with us a sad memory from his childhood.
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Caged Bird
Maya Angelou explores suffering, inequality and a people’s refusal to give up in this hard-hitting poem.
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The Three Fates
Rosemary Dobson’s unique backwards-poem reminds us that, however much we might want to, we can’t change the past.
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Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening
Charlotte Smith negotiates the shifting sands of life in this dark and stormy sonnet.
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