Vachel Lindsay laments a vanished way of life.
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Category: IGCSE World Literature
Dover Beach
Armies of ignorance conquer all in Matthew Arnold’s dark and disturbing vision of the world.
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Song to the Men of England
Percy Bysshe Shelley exhorts us to rise up in this powerful poetical polemic.
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Carpet Weavers, Morocco
Looking at life differently in Carol Rumens’ challenging poem
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Storyteller
Liz Lochhead casts a spell in this magical realist poem.
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First Love
John Clare gets maudlin when he falls in love with an unattainable woman.
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The Listeners
Walter De La Mere scares his children – and us – with this mysterious fireside fairytale.
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