Poems

Poems

1. An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

   • War and Violence
   • W.B. Yeats
   • pilot who knows he is going to die in the air
     • decided on impulse
     • regrets decision
   • Imagery

2. Truant

   • Family and Childhood
   • Phoebe Hesketh
   • boy who likes to be alone
     • outside with nature
     • learns a lot outside
   • similes
   • a lot of imagery

3. Old Man

   • People
   • Jessica Siegal
   • How a man has aged
   • Similes used
   • lots of images created

4. Bloody Men

   • Love
   • Wendy Cope
   • a woman looking for a man
     • compares them to busses
   • similes

5. Mid-Term Break

   • Death and Grief
   • Seamus Heaney
   • boy whose brother died
   • imagery

6. Truant

   • Nature
   • Pheobe Hesketh
   • boy who likes nature
     • v. knowledgeable about it
       • Birds/plants etc.
   • Similes
   • Images