Perspectives

Next, we will provide with some ideas which will help you put “Warning to Parents” by Elizabeth Jennings into perspective and reflect on related aspects such as current issues, literary context, and similar works.

Current issues

Although published in 1964, the poem is still very relevant today because it deals with a universal desire all parent have to protect their children.

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Literary period/movement

Elizabeth Jennings has lived and written during the period of Modernism and Postmodernism in literature. However, her poems are often considered as traditionalist because of...

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Works with the same theme

To better understand the themes of “Warning to Parents”, we encourage you to also explore other similar poems. Phillip Larkin, who belongs to the same movement as Jennings, wrote the poem “This Be the Verse” (The Lift, p. 106) in which...

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