About the Poem

In England, it is still not uncommon for boys to be sent away to boarding school at the tender age of seven. Strangely, it is often the mothers who cry themselves to sleep at night, while the boys take on the characteristics of the feral castaways in Lord of the Flies.

Category

School Poems

Style

Rhyming poem

Length

8 lines

Key Stage

KS1, KS2, KS3

Author

Patrick Winstanley