POETRY STUDY GUIDE FOR 2023 CSEC ENGLISH B EXAM PREP

Childhood Experiences Nationalism and Patriotism

 My Parents  This is Dark Time My Love
 Little Boy Crying  It is the Constant image of Your Face
 Birdshooting Season  Test Match Sabina Park
 Dreaming Black Boy  South
Parent/ Child Relationship Caribbean Culture
 Little Boy Crying  Ol Higue
 The woman Speaks to the Man Who  Test Match Sabina Park
has Employed her Son  Birdshooting Season
 Birdshooting Season  South
 My Parents  West Indies USA
Religion and Religious Experiences Nature and Natural Landscape
 A Stones Throw  Sonnet Composed Upon West
 The Woman Speaks to the Man Who Minister Bridge
has Employed her Son  An African Thunderstorm
 A Lessson For this Sunday  Landscape Painter
 South
 A Lesson for this Sunday
Death Love and Relationship
 Dulce et Decorum  It is the Constant Image of Your Face
 The Woman Speaks to the Man Who  Little Boy Crying (familial love)
Has Employed Her Son  The Woman Speaks to the Man Who
 This is Dark Time My Love has Employed her Son ( familial love)
 A Lesson For this Sunday
Identity Racism
 Mirror  Dreaming Black Boy
 Test Match Sabina Park  West Indies, USA
 Dreaming Black Boy
 South
Alienation and Belonging
 Dreaming Black Boy
 My Parents
 Test Match Sabina Park

NB.
 You must know two devices for each of the 20 poems because you will be asked to
comment on literary devices (and examples from the text)
 Themes are not limited to those above as there are also other possible themes