Reading+POETRY+(KS3)

The poems you will study will all explore, in different ways and from different persectives, the theme of LOVE.

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 * 1) 'The Flea' by John Donne (Click [|HERE] for an audio clip of the poem)
 * 1) 'Stop All The Clocks' by W. H. Auden
 * 2) 'Love Cuts' by John Hegley (Click [|HERE] to hear the poem read by Hegley himself, and [|HERE] to go to Hegley's own website)
 * 1) 'I wanna be yours' by John Cooper Clarke (Click [|HERE] to go to John Cooper Clarke's website)
 * 1) 'Even tho' by Grace Nichols
 * 2) 'A Blade Of Grass' by Brian Patten (Click [|HERE] to visit Patten's page on the Children's Poetry Archive)

A Word version of all six poems can be downloaded below:

And for those of you stuck on rhythm or METER, or those of you wanting to explore it further, feel free to have a look at this document I produced for some A level students a few years ago: