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Blue Remembered Hills A.E. Houseman's poem looks back at childhood as a "land of lost content" meaning that when you are a child you are innocent and you don't have a care in the world. Also he says that childhood is a "happy highway where I went / and cannot come again" meaning that they are the best years of your life but you can never go back there. Dennis Potter took the poem and turned it in to a play about a group of children who were on there school holidays in the forest of dean in Gloucester. Potter is asking if childhood is such a land of lost content and is children so innocent. The poem was set in the summer of 1943 and there were 5 boys and 2 girls who were played by adults. The first person we meet is Willie who is playing at being...


