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Poetry and close reading · Secondary / sixth form

A Shropshire Lad

A. E. Housman

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Short lyric poems bring landscapes and memories into contact with limits on youth and opportunity. Listen to the apparent ease of the rhythm, then compare that musical surface with the subject being described; a direct statement can still contain a difficult shift in perspective.

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