AQA Love and relationships cluster – Taboo
Singh Song!
Winter Swans
‘I run just one ov my daddy’s
shops’
‘‘They mate for life’ you said as
they left,’
Eden Rock
Climbing my Grandfather
‘My father, twenty-five, in the
same suit’
‘I decide to do it free, without a
rope or net.’
Eden Rock
Walking Away
‘The sky whitens as if lit by
three suns.’
‘It is eighteen years ago, almost
to the day —’
Sonnet 29 — ‘I think of
thee!’
When We Two Parted
‘In silence and tears,’
‘Yet, O my palm-tree,’
Sonnet 29 — ‘I think of
thee!’
Mother, any distance
‘Anchor. Kite.’
‘Rustle thy boughs and set thy
trunk all bare,’
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Neutral Tones
Porphyria’s Lover
‘We stood by a pond that winter
day,’
‘Three times her little throat
around,’
Porphyria’s Lover
Walking Away
‘The rain set early in to-night,’
‘That hesitant figure, eddying
away’
Mother, any distance
Love’s Philosophy
‘the acres of the walls, the
prairies of the floors.’
‘Nothing in the world is single;’
Follower
The Farmer’s Bride
‘It is my father who keeps
stumbling’
‘We caught her, fetched her
home at last’
Neutral Tones
The Farmer’s Bride
‘The smile on your mouth was
the deadest thing’
‘Three Summers since I chose a
maid,’
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Letters from Yorkshire
Before You Were Mine
‘Is your life more real because
you dig and sow?’
‘till I see you, clear as scent,
under the tree,’
Before You Were Mine
Porphyria’s Lover
‘I’m ten years away from the
corner you laugh on with your
pals,’
‘And all night long we have not
stirred,’
Follower
Follower
‘I was a nuisance, tripping,
falling,’
‘My father worked with a horseplough,’
Love’s Philosophy
Letters from Yorkshire
‘And the moonbeams kiss the
sea-’
‘In February, digging his garden,
planting potatoes,’
The Farmer’s Bride
Singh Song
‘The brown of her – her eyes,
her hair, her hair!’
‘Ven I return from di tickle ov
my bride’
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Teaching notes
1. Print out sets of cards so that you have enough for each group of three to four
students.
2. Cut out the cards and laminate them if possible.
3. The student reads out the quote on the first card to their group. Whoever
identifies the poem wins the card. Any unidentified quotes go in the middle for
later consideration. After three turns the pack is passed on to the next group
member.
4. The game ends when all the cards are either won or on tables/desks having failed
to be identified.
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