Click on the button above to access an anthology of poems that explore the theme of change. It’s designed for students in KS3. There are twelve poems in total:
- Fall, Leaves, Fall, by Emily Brontë (1846)
- The Eagle, by Alfred Tennyson (1851)
- An Emerald is as Green as Grass, Christina Rossetti (1872)
- In Time of Silver Rain, Langston Hughes (1947)
- The Trees, Philip Larkin (1974)
- Nettles, Vernon Scannell (1980)
- The Ideal, James Fenton (1983)
- Praise Song For My Mother, Grace Nichols (1984)
- Indian Cooking, Moniza Alvi (1993)
- December, Carol Ann Duffy (2005)
- A Chant Against Death, by Mervyn Morris (2006)
- Remember, by Matt Goodfellow (2020)
Each poem is double-spaced and there’s plenty of room in the margins for annotation and notes etc. I’ve also included a couple of other things:
- A literary term relevant to each poem
- A big question for further exploration
There are also other anthologies on the site...
- KS3 poems on the theme of memory - click here
- Poems based on the BBC documentary War of the Words - click here
- Poems from a range of writers and conflicts - click here
Hope they’re helpful -
Doug