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Poetry and paternal love

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Nov2009 (Volume) 20 (Number) 2
Medium (Periodical) English Review.
Classif 820 ENG
Subject English
Page 30 - 32
Authors Thanassoulis, Rachel
Contents

`Love through the Ages' is the new topic for the AQA (A) English literature A2 synoptic unit, and although traditionally the love expressed in poetry is of the romantic and heterosexual kind, the subject clearly encompasses many different kinds of human relationship. The author surveys some of the poetry about paternal love.

Keywords
Childhood     Fatherhood     Fathers     Mothers     Parent and child     Parent and child relationship     Parenthood     Poems