Loss
Theme: Loss
Many plays and poems are concerned with the nature of loss. Sometimes this is the loss of
love, sometimes this is the loss of life or loss of innocence. Choose a situation where there
is loss in a Shakespeare play and link it with the way loss is presented in the poems you
have studied.
Poetry selection (Page numbers refer to the WJEC GCSE Poetry Collection.) Cousin Kate: Rossetti (p. 6) Holy Sonnet 17: Donne (p. 11) Long Distance II: Harrison (p. 11) Catrin: Clarke (p. 12) What Has Happened to Lulu: Causley (p. 14) Mid-Term Break: Heaney (p. 15) On My First Son: Jonson (p. 19) My Heart is Like a Withered Nut!: Norton (p. 21) Sweet 18: Pugh (p. 23) They Did Not Expect This: Scannell (p. 33) Havisham: Duffy (p. 36) Song of the Worker’s Wife: Gray Jones (p. 46) The Hunchback in the Park: Thomas (p. 48) Refugee Blues: Auden (p. 52) MCMXIV: Larkin (p. 58) Sample tasks Task 1: • Examine how Shakespeare presents the way Juliet loses her innocence and matures during Romeo and Juliet. • Examine the way that the poets present the loss of innocence in Cousin Kate and Sweet 18. Refer to other poems from the poetry selection in your response. • What is your response to the pieces of literature you have read? Make links between the ways the writers have considered and presented the theme. © WJEC CBAC Ltd. 3 Task 2: • Examine the way Shakespeare presents Shylock’s loss of love and position in The Merchant of Venice. • Examine the way the poets present the loss of love and position in Refugee Blues and The Hunchback in the Park. • What is your response to the pieces of literature you have read? Make links between the ways the writers have considered and presented the theme. Task 3: • Examine how Shakespeare presents Leontes’ reaction to the loss of his child, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale. • Examine the way the poets present the loss of a child in On My First Son and MidTerm Break. Refer to other poems in your response. • What is your response to the pieces of literature you have read? Make links between the ways the writers have considered and presented the theme.
Poetry selection (Page numbers refer to the WJEC GCSE Poetry Collection.) Cousin Kate: Rossetti (p. 6) Holy Sonnet 17: Donne (p. 11) Long Distance II: Harrison (p. 11) Catrin: Clarke (p. 12) What Has Happened to Lulu: Causley (p. 14) Mid-Term Break: Heaney (p. 15) On My First Son: Jonson (p. 19) My Heart is Like a Withered Nut!: Norton (p. 21) Sweet 18: Pugh (p. 23) They Did Not Expect This: Scannell (p. 33) Havisham: Duffy (p. 36) Song of the Worker’s Wife: Gray Jones (p. 46) The Hunchback in the Park: Thomas (p. 48) Refugee Blues: Auden (p. 52) MCMXIV: Larkin (p. 58) Sample tasks Task 1: • Examine how Shakespeare presents the way Juliet loses her innocence and matures during Romeo and Juliet. • Examine the way that the poets present the loss of innocence in Cousin Kate and Sweet 18. Refer to other poems from the poetry selection in your response. • What is your response to the pieces of literature you have read? Make links between the ways the writers have considered and presented the theme. © WJEC CBAC Ltd. 3 Task 2: • Examine the way Shakespeare presents Shylock’s loss of love and position in The Merchant of Venice. • Examine the way the poets present the loss of love and position in Refugee Blues and The Hunchback in the Park. • What is your response to the pieces of literature you have read? Make links between the ways the writers have considered and presented the theme. Task 3: • Examine how Shakespeare presents Leontes’ reaction to the loss of his child, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale. • Examine the way the poets present the loss of a child in On My First Son and MidTerm Break. Refer to other poems in your response. • What is your response to the pieces of literature you have read? Make links between the ways the writers have considered and presented the theme.
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