This elegiac poem captures the memory of a childhood summer and a father’s love. The titular dessert becomes a symbol of innocence and loss, as the speaker reflects on a moment that, though ...

Death, according to the poet and critic William Empson, is “the trigger of the literary man’s biggest gun”. In fact, death is ...

Shortly after Elizabeth Scott's death, her family published her works in the edition Alonzo and Cora with other Original Poems, Principally Elegiac to which are added Letters in Verse by Blacklock ...

The elegiac tone of the poem is also considered. This clip is from the series Simon Armitage: Writing Poems. They could then choose three main images and three main techniques that have been used ...