• Choose two poems that issue warnings and write about the ideas they present. How powerful are the messages.

     

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Published: 25.12.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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Choose two poems that issue warnings and write about the ideas they present. How powerful are the messages.
The poem Windscale, by Norman Nicholson, talks about a place beside the sea in Cumbria. It is the sight of a nuclear processing plant. It is a very bitter poem and has a bitter tone. It is full of anger and accusation; different to the other poem; neighbours.
"The toadstool towers infest the shore:"
the toadstool towers are described as something sinister; a disease conquering the beautiful shore.
"Scafell looks down from the bracken,
And sees hell in a grain of sand.
And f…

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