In Year Six we have been learning about the features of poetry. We wrote poems based on our theme, which is World War One. What features can you spot?

Ypres, by Tyler (6B)

Livid with anxiety,

We enter destruction valley,

The ferocious bullet penetrates my body,

Like gas clutching your lungs.

Eternal rows of death,

Like a river of emotion,

It’s an abyss of anguish,

As we hover, rise, like angels.

“Bombs!”

The bombs let fall,

Disrupting everything in their path,

Ypres has been obliterated.

A pernicious, belligerent battlefield,

Dynamising, bombs shattering,

Seas of everlong poison,

“Gas! Gas! Quick, boys,”

Splattering soldiers, struggling to survive.




Ypres, by Josh (6B)

Livid with fear,
Wounded soldiers enter destruction valley.
Explosions everywhere,
As surreptitious as a serpent.

A pernicious, belligerent battlefield
Dynamising bombs shattering
Seas of everlong poison.
"Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!"
Spluttering soldiers struggling to survive.

A cacophony of noise.
War, obscene as death,
A giant storybook filled with corruption,
Fatigued, blood-shot men trudge in horror.

Soldiers stumble,
Guns roar like lions,
Souls are ghosts rising from the dead.
"Help! Help!" cries the soldier,
His lungs throbbing.