Charlotte Smith negotiates the shifting sands of life in this dark and stormy sonnet.
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Tag: IGCSE Literature
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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Watching For Dolphins
David Constantine wonders if there isn’t something more to life than meets the eye.
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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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You Will Know When You Get There
Allen Curnow suggests that there’s a right time to die in this tough, but rewarding, poem.
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