Choose three or more poems on the theme of growing older - Write about how each poet approaches this theme.

... English coursework Choose three or more poems on the theme of growing older. Write about how each poet approaches this theme. The 3 poems I have chosen to write about are 'My Grandmother' by Elizabeth Jennings, 'Once upon a time' by Gabriel Okara and 'mirror' by Sylvia Plath. 'My grandmother' is a free verse. 'Once upon a time' is also a free verse, which means it has no regular rhythm and rhyme. 'Mirror' has an ABAB rhyming scheme with a rhyming couplet at the end of each stanza. Mirror is also a free verse similar to once upon a time. My grandmother is about a girl who feels guilty about how she treated her grandmother when she was little. Once upon a time is about a man remember what it was like when he was little. He remembers how it used to be when people said 'glad to meet you' and

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