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As much applicable to children as the politically minded adult Advantages: Really good read, accessible, easy going Disadvantages: Mixed messages, a bit 'visionary' at times! If you enjoy very linguistically difficult poetry then I am not sure that this is the collection for you. However, if you like deep poetry which is accessible to you and your children then this book is great. Many of the students at my school study it at A level and love it but this does not mean that this book is only for the academic, quite the opposite is true! Blake was writting for children which means his work is just as applicable to children ... ...I studied this collection myself when I was at school and I still read it now. "My heart is at rest within my breast and everything else is still". I think it is a masterpiece of langauge, something which I have carried with me over the years as great poetry. My only wish is that I had one of the plates he made with his poetry on them! ... ewaller 06.05.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Songs Of Innocence and Experience - William Blake
Simple and unadorned diction Advantages: Remarkable poems Disadvantages: None ...5. Man and Boy 6. Seeing Things 7. The Ash Plant 8. I.I.87 9. An August Night 10. Field of Vision 11. The Pitchfork 12. A Basket of Chestnuts 13. The Biretta 14. The Settle Bed 15. The Schoolbag 16. Glanmore Revisited 17. A Pillowed Head 18. A Royal Prospect 19. A Retrospect 20. The Rescue 21. Wheels within Wheels 22. The Sounds of Rain 23. Fosterling (A number of the poems in Part I above were printed in "The Tree Clock" by Linen ... ...Lightenings 25. Settings 26. Crossing 27. Squarings On selected poems in "Seeing Things" Most of Seamus Heaney's poems wrote in 'simple and unadorned diction' (Walt Whitman's term). This kind of poetry tends to avoid complicated symbols and allegories. Instead, rhythm with strong accent becomes an emphasis thing. The first poem on the book, The Journey Back, shows us about the term simple and unadorned diction above: --- Larkin's shade ... cs.hari 05.11.2007 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Seeing Things - Seamus Heaney
WARNING Advantages: A heartwarming look at old age Disadvantages: Absolutely none! Oh, how I love this poem! When I am old I am going to aspire to its' every detail! Jenny Joseph wrote this poem in 1961 and it was voted Britain's favourite poem in 1996. It is written from the point of view of a middle-aged woman who yearns to throw off the cloak of respectability in her old age. For now, she must live the life of expected sobriety but, when she reaches old age she is determined to let respectability fly to the wind! There is ... ...everybody can relate to, some more than others maybe, but the connection will be there all the same. To quote just a couple of lines to give you the feeling of the theme: ....and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells and run my stick along the public railings.... The good thing about old age is that nobody cares so much about what you look like or what you do. You can get away with most things and all people will do is call you eccentric! ... caneal 18.05.2003 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Selected Poems - Jenny Joseph
Great Introdcution to Poetry Advantages: Nice poems, bright and colourful Disadvantages: Not as engaging as other childrens books ...really heard before. The cover of the book is bright blue and has the title in nice bubble letters which are all a different colour across the front and lots of different pictures all around this. The back cover is also bright blue and again has lots of pictures covering it showing a variety of different things. Upon opening the book the first page has a lovely little space where your child can write their own name so people will know that the book ... ...of the book and the names of all the poems included. The book is split into 2 different sections the first being, HapolooKangaroo and the second, Higglety, Pigglety, Pop. Both of the sections have 20 poems in. I am not going to individually list all of the poems included in this book as it would make for a massive list but to name just a few we have, Hen’s Song Tiger Hey Diddle Diddle The Kettle Clocks and Watches A Boy Went Walking From the ... sewbizzie 06.10.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems - June Crebbin
A load of rubbish? nope, pure nonsense! Advantages: Funny, classics, a way to get kids into poetry, clever... Disadvantages: None ...years. He is described on the back of my book as 'the inventor of the limerick'. Lear was born in 1812, and throughout his childhood he suffered from epilepsy and depression. He was brought up and educated by two of his sisters, in this education they read him a lot of poetry and taught him to draw, two subjects which I feel the world owes them for A Book of Nonsense was published in 1846, using the pseudonym Derry Down Derry. This wasn't the only ... ...one. Only 6 years later the second edition of the book was published. The Owl and the Pussy Cat, which I'm pretty convinced is the best known of his Nonsense Songs was also the first, written in 1867, and the book Nonsense Songs followed in 1870. Lear died in 1888 at the age of 75. This is a very condensed history, but this is because I am only reviewing he Book of Nonsense and Nonsense Songs. I've researched the claim that Lear was the inventor ... M.Newcastle 05.10.2009 · Read full review Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of The Book of Nonsense And Nonsense Songs - Edward Lear