POEM
AUTHOR
If
Rudyard Kipling
Prayer Before Birth
Louis Macneice
Half Past Two
U A Fanthorpe
Piano
D H Lawrence
Hide and Seek
Vernon Scannell
Sonnet 116 (‘Let me not to the
Shakespeare
marriage ...’)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
John Keats
Poem at Thirty-Nine
Alice Walker
Telephone Conversation
Wole Soyinka
Once Upon a Time
Gabriel Okara
War Photographer
Carol Ann Duffy
The Tyger
William Blake
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
A Mother in a Refugee Camp
Chinua Achebe
Do Not Go Gentle into That
Good Night
Dylan Thomas
Remember
Christina Rossetti
QUICK SUMMARY
Fatherly advice to the poet's son to guide him on
how to become a man.
Fears about what the horrors of the world can do to
a child's innocence.
A young boy is in detention but can't tell the time so
he doesn't know when to leave.
About memory and looking back to childhood with
'rose-tinted' glasses.
A boy plays the common game and overcomes some
challenges.
All about what love is and what it isn't.
THEMES
Parent & Child
POTENTIAL PAIRS
Prayer Before Birth (lists of qualitites)
Parent & Child
Religion
Childhood
If (Lists of qualities)
Love (true)
Half Past Two (the things that children
think and feel)
La Belle Dame… (different types of love)
Seduction, love and death.
Love (manipulated)
Sonnet 116 (different types of love)
Looking at her life, she realises how much her late
father taught her.
A man trying to rent a room encounters racism and
prejudice.
Sadness about the way things were and how fake
they are now.
A photo-journalist explores the pains of his job and
the indifference of the general public.
The majesty and power of a tiger also reflects that of
God.
A portrait provokes discussion about a dead wife
(mudered by her husband, the narrator!)
Simple tale of a mother holding her dying son with
love.
Don't just give up and die - make sure you fight it.
Parent & Child Death A Mother in a Refugee Camp (the way
& memory
parents show love for their children)
Brutal world
Once Upon a Time (both about the world
gone sour)
Brutal world
Telephone Conversation (both about the
world gone sour)
Brutal world
Tyger (being affected negatively by
something you've seen0
Natural world Religion War Photographer (being affected
negatively by something they've seen)
Love (jealousy)
La Belle Dame… (women / ballads)
Childhood
Childhood
Parent & Child
Death & memory
Parent & child
When I'm dead, remember me but don't dwell on it. Death & memory
Hide and Seek (the quiet horrors of
childhood)
Poem at 39 (parents and their children)
Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night
(comaprison of deaths - consider hope)
If (fathers to sons and sons to fathers)
Piano (memories)