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]

References

↑ AQA Anthology, p. 14.

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

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

"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"

"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