As it says in the introduction (in case you missed it) there are plenty of other sites which will ‘explain’ poems, spot ‘poetic features’ or offer comprehension questions. The key to both understanding and enjoyment, in my view, is involvement: you need to do something. Having said that, some resources I’ve included are simply aids to further thought or research, such as the letter from Cecil Day-Lewis’s son or the links for ‘Romney Marsh’.
Before You Were Mine Blackberry Picking London & Westminster Bridge Catrin – Gillian Clarke
Byron When We Two Parted She walks in beauty Byron Byron Sennacherib
Bronte Emily – Love & Friendship Bronte Ann – The Bluebell Causley Eden Rock
Come Into the Garden Maud 1 Come Into the Garden Maud 2 Come into the garden Maud + queries
John Clare – Summer Sonnet Fin de Fete Charlotte Mew
Going Gently into Poems – Edward Thomas Have some fun – E E Cummings
The Farmer’s Bride Follower – Seamus Heaney Heaney – Storm on the Island Blackberry Picking Home Thoughts from Abroad
Hughes – Hawk Roosting immersed In a London Drawing Room George Eliot
Keats – When I have fears that I may cease to be Keats – To Autumn Keats – Bright Star
How Do I Love Thee My Last Duchess My Parents Kept Me from Children Who Were Rough
Ozymandias 1 Ozymandias 2 Romney Marsh – John Davidson
The Sentry The Soldier and Sentry Word Sort Sheenagh Pugh and Carol Ann Duffy
Tam O’Shanter Tennyson’s Ulysses Ulysses – the story continued…
Tissue – Imtiaz Dharker Hardy – The Five Students A Wife In London Thomas Hardy
Walking Away – Day-Lewis Winter Swans – Owen Sheers
Interactive Word Walls Bronte word wall Basho word wall Dickinson word wall
Personal Response – Innisfree The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Themes and Issues
William Blake – imposing meaning on poems Williams, Helen Maria – Song.docx
Wordsworth extract from The Prelude
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