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Year Poetry Key Points
Theme =What is the poem about? Death? School? War? Love?
Vivid descriptions/ imagery = Images that are so clear that
you feel you are a part of the poem.
Dont forget to state in your first line the poets name and the
name of the poem!!!
Advice to a Teenage Daughter by Isobel hrilling
Themes = !hildhood" #elationships" $emories" Love" Sadness" %ro&ing 'p"
(amily
Key Points = In this poem Isobel hrilling is advising her daughter about
the dangers of unre)uited love. he poet is telling us about her teenage
daughters ne& *game+ , love. he poet tells us about all the things her
daughter is using in the hope of &inning this boys love. She &arns the
daughter that she &ill not be able to compete &ith all the things that
boys love. he young girl is trying to &in the boy over &ith the help of her
&eapons , ma-e.up and beauty utensils.
Symbols he poet compares love to being a *&ar.game+. She calls her
daughters beauty utensils *ran-s of lipstic-s+ and *armies of little /ars+.
!mportant "uotes = *0ou have found a ne& &ar.game called Love+. *brave
ran-s of lipstic-s+" *1ehold the miniature armies of little /ars+.
*he hic-ness of Ice+ by Li2 Lo3ley
hemes4 (riendship" Love" #elationships" 5appiness" Sadness" 6n event
7ey 8oints4 In this poem &e meet a young couple &ho begin as friends.
heir relationship develops throughout the poem. he poet describes to
the reader &hat happens throughout the course of their relationship and
the emotions that she feels.
Symbols4 he poet uses the *ice+ as a symbol for the relationship
Important 9uotes4 *6t first &e &ill meet as friends.+
#id$Term %rea& by Seamus 5eaney
Themes = Death" !hildhood" %ro&ing 'p" Sadness" an event" (amily life
Key Points = his poem is one of heart.brea-ing sadness. he poets
younger brother has /ust been -illed and the poet describes in the poem
the events that happen after his death. he poet tells us that he has not
seen his brother for si3 &ee-s. he poet describes his parents reactions
to the death and also his o&n discomfort in the situation.
!mportant "uotes = *In the porch I met my father crying , he had al&ays
ta-en funerals in his stride+" *as my mother held my hand in hers and
coughed out angry tearless sighs.+" *I sa& him for the first time in si3
&ee-s.+ *6 four foot bo3" a foot for every year.+
%ac& in the Playground %lues by 6drian $itchell
Themes = War :he 7illing %round;" School" Sadness" 1ullying" !hildhood"
$emories
Key Points = his poem is about the misery that the poet felt &hile he &as
at school. o him" the playground &as a miserable" horrible place &here
the bullies pic-ed on everyone including him. *he 7illing %round+ tells us
that to the children" the playground &as li-e a &ar area &here no one &as
safe from the bullies. he poet also tells us that the bullies &ere so cruel
that they even used to pic- the &ings off beetles and insects.
!mportant "uotes = *Dreamed I &as in a school playground" I &as about
four feet high+" *6nd it has a special name to it" they called it the 7illing
%round"+ *he #ulers of the 7illing %round are coming out to play
everyone thin-ing4 &ho are they going to play &ith today?+" *hose &ho
get it get it get it for any damn thing at all"+ *1ut a beetle cant beg for
mercy" a beetles not half the fun+" * but I have never found any place in
my life thats &orse than the 7illing %round.+
%ase Details by Siegfried Sassoon
Themes = War" 6nger" Death" Sadness" $emories
Key Points = In this poem Siegfried Sassoon shares &ith the reader his
anger to&ards the $a/ors &ho &ere in charge during World War <.
Siegfried &as a soldier in World War < and sa& himself ho& badly the
$a/ors treated the soldiers. he $a/ors used to stay in fancy hotels
&hile the young soldiers fought the &ar out on the battlefield. he poet
is especially angry that the $a/ors used to die comfortably in their o&n
beds" after the &ar.
!mportant "uotes' **&ith my puffy petulant face" gu22ling and gulping in
the best hotel.+" *gu22ling and gulping+" *6nd &hen the &ar is done and
youth stone dead" Id toddle safely home and die=in bed.+