March Poems

Some of our poems in March were carried over to April as we spent some time in each meeting on technical aspects of poetry. The topic was Favourite Poems again and includes:
My Best Friend-Jeremy Lloyd; The Weeds of Warwickshire-Felix Dennis; The Crack-Denise Levertov; The Windhover-Gerald Manley Hopkins; The Snow Man-Wallace Stevens; Toast-Sheenagh Pugh; From A Shropshire Lad-A.E. Housman; Digging-Seamus Heaney; Harlem Night Song-Langston Hughes. They all gave us plenty to talk about. We also had Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard as an example of accentual-syllabic iambic pentameter verse and considered the complex use of stress and meaning in the poem.