Over the past few weeks, I’ve been looking at a series of war poems with one of my KS3 classes....
KS3 War Poetry Anthology
Click on the link above to access an anthology of war poems.
- Extract from The Iliad, by Homer
- Extract from Beowulf, by unknown poet
- ‘Drummer Hodge’, by Thomas Hardy
- ‘Many Sisters to Many Brothers’, by Rose Macaulay
- ‘Suicide in the Trenches’, by Siegfried Sassoon
- ‘Strange Meeting’, by Wilfred Owen
- ‘Last Post’, by Carol Ann Duffy
- ‘MCMXIV’, by Philip Larkin
- ‘Pluck’, by Eva Dobell
- ‘Platform One’, by Ted Hughes
- ‘The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner’, by Randall Jarrell
- ‘Flag’, by John Agard
I’ve also included some decent wider reading at the end.
Hope it’s useful –
Doug