IGCSE Poetry Anthology

IGCSE Poetry Anthology: Songs of Ourselves

1. Maya Angelou: Caged Bird student essay1 student essay2	social injustice lack of freedom
2. Norman Nicholson: Rising Five Before the Sun comparison	childhood mortality
3. Mervyn Morris: Little Boy Crying	relationships between adults and children childhood stories and the imagination first person narration
4. Carol Rumens: Carpet-weavers, Morocco	social injustice/poverty childhood work
5. Percy Bysshe Shelley: *Song to the Men of England* PowerPoint (save before viewing) Background and questions	social injustice/poverty work
6. Arthur Hugh Clough: from Spectator ab Extra	social injustice/poverty portrait of a character (first person narrator/persona)
7. Hone Tuwhare: Monologue Background and questions notes setting images task Fred's movie Lucas's movie	social injustice/poverty work portrait of a character (first person narrator/persona)
8. Charles Mungoshi: Before the Sun Rising Five comparison	childhood portrait of a character (first person narrator/persona) mortality relationship with nature stories and the imagination
Do this activity BEFORE looking at the poem 9. Sujata Bhatt: Muliebrity	social injustice/poverty work portrait of a character portrayal of women's lives
10. William Wordsworth: She dwelt among the untrodden ways	mortality portrait of a character relationship with nature love
11. James K. Baxter: Farmhand student essay(+dwelt among)	work relationship with nature portrait of a character love
12. Isobel Dixon: Plenty notes annotations and questions student essay	poverty relationships between adults and children childhood memories portrait of a character portrayal of women's lives first person narration
13. Liz Lochhead: Storyteller	portrayal of women's lives work stories and the imagination
14. Charles Lamb: The Old Familiar Faces	mortality childhood memories
15. Seamus Heaney: Mid-Term Break	mortality relationships between adults and children childhood memories first person narration