Poetry Analysis




Essays are organised alphabetically by poet’s last name

[ABC]
Chinua Achebe
+ A Mother in a Refugee Camp

Simon Armitage [Armitage homepage]
+ Alaska
+ Give
+ Gooseberry Season
Kid
+ My Father Thought it Bloody Queer
+ Out of the Blue
+ Poem
+ To Poverty
The Convergence of the Twain
+ True North

Margaret Atwood
+ The City Planners


William Blake [Blake Home Page]
London [Video]

Elizabeth Brewster
+ Where I Come From


Robert Browning
My Last Duchess

[DEF]

Carol Ann Duffy [Duffy Homepage]
+ Havisham
Medusa
Quickdraw
+ Valentine
+ War Photographer


[GHI]
Kevin Halligan
+ The Cockroach


Ted Hughes
+ Old Age Gets Up
+ Hawk Roosting
+ The Pike
+ Wind [Essay] [Video]


[JKL]
Boey Kim Cheng
+ The Planners


[MNO]

Norman MacCaig
+ Summer Farm


Andrew Marvell

[PQRS]
Petrarch
+ About Petrarchan Sonnets


Christina Rossetti

+ A Birthday
+ Remember


Dante Gabriel Rossetti
+ NEW The Woodspurge 


Vernon Scannell

Nettles


William Shakespeare

+ Sonnet 116 Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds



+ Sonnet 129 The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame +NEW get translation

+ Sonnet 147 My Love is Like a Fever Longing Still +NEW get translation



Percy Bysshe Shelley
+ Ozymandias

[TUV]
Dylan Thomas 
‘Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night’


[WXYZ]
Alice Walker
+ Poem at Thirty Nine


Thomas Wyatt

+ Whoso List to Hunt

The author, Melanie Kendry, is an Oxford graduate, outstanding-rated English Language and Literature teacher and of ages 10-18 in the British education system. In 2012, she was nominated for Pearson’s Teaching Awards. As a private tutor, she raises grades often from C to A. Her writing is also featured in The Huffington Post. She offers private tuition in the Haywards Heath area, West Sussex.