Section B: Poetry: Love and Relationship

Notes

• A Guide to Structure, Form, Rhythm, Meter

• Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy

• Climbing My Grandfather - Andrew Waterhouse

• Eden Rock - Charles Causley

• Follower - Seamus Heaney

• Letters from Yorkshire - Maura Dooley

• Love's Philosophy - Percy Shelley

• Mother Any Distance - Simon Armitage

• Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy

• Porphyria's Lover - Robert Browning

• Singh Song! - Daljit Nagra

• Sonnet 29 - Elizabeth Browning

• The Farmer's Bride - Charlotte Mew

• Walking Away - Cecil Day-Lewis

• When We Two Parted - Lord Byron

• Winter Swans - Owen Sheers

Additional Reading & Videos

• Walking Away – Is it still relevant today?

• Follower – Video analysis

• Mother, Any Distance – Simon Armitage as Poet Laureate

• Mother, Any Distance – Simon Artimage response to becoming Poet Laureate

• Mother, Any Distance – a brief powerpoint

• Before You Were Mine – a reading

• Before You Were Mine – famous writers reflect on pictures of their mothers

• Winter Swans – Information on Owen Sheers

• Singh Song! – BBC Teach Video Analysis

• Climbing My Grandfather – The suicide of Andrew Waterhouse