Great and famous – or not so famous -  poems in English – from the 16^th to the 20^th Century.

To meet each month  to read and consider one or two of the many interesting poems in English, with an emphasis on the importance of reading aloud and a general aim of noticing some of the things poets do with words - form, rhythm/ rhyme etc .

 

Some Poems we might consider (amongst many others that might be suggested)

Ozymandias/ My Last Duchess (Shelley/Browning) – perhaps a good place to start?

After a Journey/ The Voice/The Going (Hardy)

Ode to Autumn/Ode to a Nightingale/ Ode to a Grecian Urn (Keats)

The Love song of Alfred J. Prufrock  (T.S. Eliot)

Air and Angels/ ‘Sweetest Love I do not go’ (Donne)

Mending Wall (Robert Frost)

Death of a Favourite Cat drowned in a goldfish bowl/ Death of a Toad ( Gray/Wilbur)

The Road not Taken/The Signpost (Frost/Edward Thomas)

Sailing to Byzantium/ Byzantium  (Yeats)

‘I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day’ (Hopkins)

Little TC in a prospect of flowers/ The Garden(Marvell)

Elegy in a Country Churchyard (Gray)

‘A slumber did my spirit seal’ / ‘She dwelt among the untrodden ways’ (Wordsworth)

Chimney Sweep / The Poison Tree (Blake)

Old Man or Lads Love/ Fifty Faggots (Edward Thomas)

The Collar/Complaining (Herbert)

For the Union Dead (Robert Lowell)

The Woman at the Washington Zoo (Randell Jarrell)

Cold in the Earth (Emily Bronte)

Sonnets 116/138 (Shakespeare)

Louse Hunting/ Break of Day in the Trenches/The Immortals (Isaac Rosenberg)

The Sentry/Strange Meeting (Wilfred Owen)

…and so on..