Year 8 Poetry October 2021

Year 8 Poetry Year 8 students have been studying Romantic poetry in English. Inspired by the work of William Blake, they have written and illustrated their own ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’.

Year 8 students have been studying Romantic poetry in English. Inspired by the work of William Blake, they have written and illustrated their own ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’. Here are some examples from Greta and Siri.

A poem and artwork inspired by William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ by Greta Hopka in Year 8

 

 When was the time?

 The time we’d be just as innocent as flowers.

 We’d do things without desire

 The flame was lit in our soul

 Now that our lives are so so dull

 Where’d that flame go?

 Now that flame is dead

 We can make mistakes, we said

 We’ve grown wise and mature

Now we must face a door, a door that that’s locked for now.

 

 

A poem and artwork inspired by William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ by Siri Bischoff, Year 8

 

Ruth Sudlow

Secondary English and Drama Teacher