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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Category: IGCSE Literature
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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Marrysong
If you think that getting married means living happily-ever-after, Dennis Scott will probably want to have a word.
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The Caged Skylark
Gerard Manley Hopkins explores what it feels like to be trapped in your skin.
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Rising Five
Norman Nicholson warns us not to wish our lives away.
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Muliebrity
After many years away from the country of her birth, Sujata Bhatt wonders if it’s finally time to share her memories of India.
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The Poplar-Field
William Cowper visits a woody riverbank by which he passed many pleasant childhood days… to find it irrevocably changed.
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Plenty
Isobel Dixon shows us that older really does mean wiser as she reminisces ruefully about her childhood.
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