Choose two poems that issue warnings and write about the ideas they present. How powerful are the messages.
The poem Windscale, by Norman Nicholson, talks about a place beside the sea in Cumbria. It is the sight of a nuclear processing plant. It is a very bitter poem and has a bitter tone. It is full of anger and accusation; different to the other poem; neighbours.
"The toadstool towers infest the shore:"
the toadstool towers are described as something sinister; a disease conquering the beautiful shore.
"Scafell looks down from the bracken,
And sees hell in a grain of sand.
And f…
