May 2008 - Poetry (KS4 Foundation)

You have five senses:

1. SMELL
2. TASTE
3. HEARING
4. SIGHT
5. TOUCH

Imagine you are a soldier in the First World War.

Using as many of these as possible, write a poem describing how the war makes you feel.

Here is an example:

The smell of death is far too strong.
It will not go away.
I hear the dying bodies cry
At nighttime and by day.
The mud and blood beneath my feet
It sucks me to my doom.
The taste of death is on my tongue,
My trench is now my tomb.

Now you have a try - and remember: try to get across the horror of what the war is like.