Potential Themes for Post-2000s Poetry

Potential Themes

 Power – Eat Me, The Gun, Please Hold
 Gender – Eat Me, The Gun, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man
 Transgression and taboo – Eat Me
 Loss – History, Genetics
 Fear – History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man
 Conflict – History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Please Hold
 Society – Eat Me, History, An Easy Passage, The Gun, Genetics, From the Journal of a
Disappointed Man, Please Hold, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
 Childhood – History, An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self
 Identity – Eat Me, History, An Easy Passage, Genetics, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man
 Culture – An Easy Passage, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man, Please Hold, Ode on a
Grayson Perry Urn
 Guilt - The Lammas Hireling
 Folklore – The Lammas Hireling
 Change – An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, The Gun, History, Genetics, Please Hold
 Innocence and naivety – History, An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Genetics, From the
Journal of a Disappointed Man
 Regret - An Easy Passage, The Lammas Hireling, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, From the Journal of a
Disappointed Man
 Family – History, Genetics
 Religion – Genetics
 Time – An Easy Passage, To My Nine Year-Old Self, Please Hold, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
 Youth – An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
 Relationships – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling, Genetics, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
 Adults looking back on childhood incidents – An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self
 Unusual events – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling
 Tragedy – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling
 Death – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun
 Anger – History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Please Hold
 Disturbing events/situations – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Ode on a
Grayson Perry Urn
 Memories – History, An Easy Passage, The Lammas Hireling, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Genetics,
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
 Ideas of what we inherit from the past – History, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Genetics, Ode on a
Grayson Perry Urn
 First person narrative voice – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling, To My Nine-Year-Old Self,
The Gun, Genetics, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man, Please Hold
 Morality – History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
 Discomfort – History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun
 Danger – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
 Class – From the Journal of a Disappointed Man, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
 History – An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Genetics, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
 Work – An Easy Passage, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man
 Nature – History
 Symbolism – An Easy Passage, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Genetics, From the Journal of a
Disappointed Man, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn