Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
The Poems - Coggle Diagram
The Poems
Poppies
Jane weir was born in 1963 grew up in Italy add northern England with an English mother and an Italian father
she has continued to absorb different cultural experiences throughout her life also living in Northern Ireland
-
Poppies are used as a symbol of both war and sacrifice the effects of this is to help the reader remember the people who sacrificed their lives for our freedom.
Storm on the island
He was a poet born in 1939 in Northern Ireland his poetry is normally based on farm life childhood and nature.
The poem is about how someone prepares for a storm however there is a change in turn from safety to danger the violence and the noise of the storm is described.
-
Bayonet charge
As a child growing up in the 1930s Ted Hughes childhood was overshadowed by the legacy of 1 war and foreshadowed by the arrival of the next
while the impact of the First World War was particularly striking the Second World War also affected the young Hughes with the departure of his much loved older brother Gerald to the RAF keenly felt.
War had a major impact upon Hughes life and work and as professor Dennis WA LD E R wrote Hughes was a war poet at one remove writing out the impact of memory the individual memory of his father and the collective memory of English culture.
Exposure
-
While waiting overnight in the trenches but no fighting was happening they were exposed to harsh cold nights where they would prepare for the next day or stay on guard
The Emigree
Carol Rumens herself was born in South London but this time the Iraqi crisis was starting on the refugees might have triggered her to write this poem.
-
Tissue
-
This poem first appeared in the darker collection called the terrorist at my table published in 2006 it was the first poem in the collection
Checking out me history
John agard wrote this in a way that expresses his upbringing and his identity he does this by using his Caribbean style speaking.
-
War Photographer
In this poem Carol Ann Duffy traces the experience of a single photographer who acts as an in between persona from the bridge between the victims of the war and the readers of the newspaper who is neither as ignorant as the readers know as affected as the civilians.
-