This Room

This Room is a poem by Imtiaz Dharker. It is included in Cluster 2, Poems from different cultures, of the AQA Anthology. ^[1]

Description

The poem describes a room in which all of the furniture is stirring - this is a metaphor for a feeling of excitement at a new and strange event taking place. ^[2]

References

^ AQA Anthology, Page14
^ http://www.teachit.co.uk/armoore/anthology/differentcultures.htm#thisroom

AQA Anthology

Poems from
Other Cultures

Cluster 1	"Limbo" by Edward Kamau Brathwaite · "Nothing's Changed" by Tatamkhulu Afrika · "Island Man" by Grace Nichols · "Blessing" by Imtiaz Dharker · "Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People In A Mercedes" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti · "Night of the Scorpion" by Nissim Ezekiel · "Vultures" by Chinua Achebe · "What Were They Like?" by Denise Levertov

Cluster 2	"Search for My Tongue" by Sujata Bhatt · "Unrelated Incidents" by Tom Leonard · "Half Caste" by John Agard · "Love After Love" by Derek Walcott · "This Room" by Imtiaz Dharker · "Not My Business" by Niyi Osundare · "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan" by Moniza Alvi · "Hurricane Hits England" by Grace Nichols

Seamus Heaney

"Storm on the Island" · "Perch" · "Blackberry-Pickin]" · "Death of a Naturalist" · "Digging" · "Mid-Term Break" · "Follower" · "At a Potato Digging"

Gillian Clarke

"Catrin" · "Baby-sitting" · "Mali" · "A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998" · "The Field Mouse" · "October" · "On the Train" · "Cold Knap Lake"

Carol Ann Duffy

"Havisham" · "Elvis's Twin Sister" · "Anne Hathaway" · "Salome" · "We Remember Your Childhood Well" · "Before You Were Mine" · ~~"Education for Leisure"~~ · "Stealing"

Simon Armitage

"Mother, any distance greater than a single span" · "My father thought it..." · "Homecoming" · "November" · "Kid" · "Those bastards in their mansions" · "I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself" · "Hitcher"

Pre-1914

"On My First Sonne" by Ben Jonson · "Song of the Old Mother" by William Butler Yeats · "The Affliction of Margaret" by William Wordsworth · "The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found" by William Blake · "Tichborne's Elegy" by Charles Tichborne · "The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy · "Patrolling Barnegat" by Walt Whitman · "Sonnet CXXX" by William Shakespeare · "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning · "The Laboratory" by Robert Browning · "Ulysses" by Alfred Tennyson · "The Village Schoolmaster" by Oliver Goldsmith · "The Eagle" by Alfred Tennyson · "Sonnet" by John Clare

Prose

"Flight" by Doris Lessing · "Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit" by Sylvia Plath · "Your Shoes" by Michèle Roberts · "Growing Up" by Joyce Cary · "The End of Something" by Ernest Hemingway · "Chemistry" by Graham Swift · "Snowdrops" by Leslie Norris