Commentaries on Selected Poems for Examination Revision
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This resource is a guide that includes commentaries on the following poems and it highlights the following poems.
Poet Title Page
Jeri Kroll
1. Quickening …………………………………………………… 1
2. On Watching a Sleeping Child …………………………………………………… 1
William Blake
From The Songs of Innocence
3. Infant Joy …………………………………………………… 5
4. The Chimney Sweeper …………………………………………………… 5
5. The Lamb …………………………………………………… 6
6. Holy Thursday …………………………………………………… 7
From The Songs of Experience
7. THE Chimney Sweeper …………………………………………………… 9
8. The Tyger …………………………………………………… 9
9. LONDON …………………………………………………… 10
10. A POISON TREE …………………………………………………… 11
11. INFANT SORROW …………………………………………………… 11
Sylvia Plath
12. Metaphors …………………………………………………… 13
13. You’re …………………………………………………… 13
14. Morning Song …………………………………………………… 14
15. Blackberrying …………………………………………………… 15
16. Daddy …………………………………………………… 18
17. The Arrival of the Bee Box …………………………………………………… 20
18. Lady Lazarus …………………………………………………… 22
19. Ariel …………………………………………………… 23
Seamus Heaney
20. Digging …………………………………………………… 24
21. Blackberry Picking …………………………………………………… 25
22. Death of a Naturalist …………………………………………………… 26
Robert Lowell
23. Skunk Hour …………………………………………………… 30
Robert Frost
24. The Road not Taken …………………………………………………… 32
25. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ………………………………… 33
Margaret Scott
26. Grandchild …………………………………………………… 34
27. Housework …………………………………………………… 35
John Donne
28. Holy Sonnet X (Death be not proud) …………………………………………………… 38
Appendix
A glossary and guide to form, metre, rhyme and language devices in poetry
