KS3 Poetry Anthology: Memory | KS3 Teaching Resource
Download now: Poems About Memory
Click here to access an anthology of poems that explore the theme of memory.
- Music, When Soft Voices Die, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (C19th)
- Just Thinking, by William Stafford (C20th)
- Last Night, by Vikram Seth (C20th)
- Last Night, by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (C20th)
- Nettles, by Vernon Scannell (C19th)
- I wish I could remember that first day, by Christina Rossetti (C19th)
- To Flee from Memory, by Emily Dickinson (C19th)
- A Weathered Skeleton, by Matsuo Basho (C17th)
- Time Does Not Bring Relief, by Edna St. Vincent Millay (C20th)
- Break, Break, Break, by Alfred Tennyson (C19th)
Each poem is double-spaced and there’s plenty of room on each page for annotations. There’s also a vocabulary page (p2) with words to help students reflect, discuss and write about the poems.
Happy grateful, excited, hopeful
Satisfied content, pleased, fulfilled
Confident assured, assertive, optimistic
Relieved reassured, calm, relaxed
Thoughtful reflective, meditative, contemplative
Unsure doubtful, hesitant, ambivalent
Sad despondent, poignant, sombre
Lonely distant, Isolated, detached
Scared anxious, apprehensive, vulnerable
Angry frustrated , resentful, aggrieved
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Form sonnet, haiku, elegy, free verse
Structure rhythm, rhyme, stanza, couplet, enjambment
Language alliteration, simile, metaphor, symbolism, onomatopoeia, repetition
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Develop also, additionally, furthermore
Link because, therefore, consequently
Sequence first, finally, before, after
Qualify however, although, despite, but
Emphasise above all, in particular, significantly, indeed
Reference for example, as revealed by, in the case of
Compare equally, similarly, likewise, in contrast, whereas
Hope it’s helpful,
Doug
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