What Were They Like?
Poem by Denise Levertov
"What Were They Like?" is a poem by Denise Levertov written as a protest against the Vietnam War, envisaging a future where the "genocide" that the American bombing campaign began had been completed, and nothing is known of Vietnam or its culture.[1] Major themes within the poem include: war, culture and anger.[2] It is included in the AQA, OCR and Edexcel anthologies that English students study for GCSE.
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AQA Anthology (2004)
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- "Storm on the Island"
- "Perch"
- "Blackberry-Pickin"
- "Death of a Naturalist"
- "Digging"
- "Mid-Term Break"
- "Follower"
- "At a Potato Digging"
- "Catrin"
- "Baby-sitting"
- "Mali"
- "A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998"
- "The Field Mouse"
- "October"
- "On the Train"
- "Cold Knap Lake"
- "Havisham"
- "Elvis's Twin Sister"
- "Anne Hathaway"
- "Salome"
- "We Remember Your Childhood Well"
- "Before You Were Mine"
- "Education for Leisure"
- "Stealing"
- "Mother, any distance greater than a single span"
- "My father thought it..."
- "Homecoming"
- "November"
- "Kid"
- "Those bastards in their mansions"
- "I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself"
- "Hitcher"
- "On My First Sonne" by Ben Jonson
- "Song of the Old Mother" by William Butler Yeats
- "The Affliction of Margaret" by William Wordsworth
- "The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found" by William Blake
- "Tichborne's Elegy" by Charles Tichborne
- "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy
- "Patrolling Barnegat" by Walt Whitman
- "Sonnet CXXX" by William Shakespeare
- "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning
- "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning
- "Ulysses" by Alfred Tennyson
- "The Village Schoolmaster" by Oliver Goldsmith
- "The Eagle" by Alfred Tennyson
- "Sonnet" by John Clare
- "Flight" by Doris Lessing
- "Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit" by Sylvia Plath
- "Your Shoes" by Michèle Roberts
- "Growing Up" by Joyce Cary
- "The End of Something" by Ernest Hemingway
- "Chemistry" by Graham Swift
- "Snowdrops" by Leslie Norris