Parrot
by Stevie Smith
‘Parrot’ is a moving exploration of imprisonment and suffering set against the backdrop of the modern, urban world.
The old sick green parrot
High in a dingy cage
Sick with malevolent rage
Beadily glutted his furious eye
Not Waving But Drowning
by Stevie Smith
‘Not Waving But Drowning’ by Stevie Smith describes the emotional situation of a speaker whose true tribulations go unnoticed by all those around her.
Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.
Pad, Pad
by Stevie Smith
‘Pad, Pad’ is written by the English poet Florence Margaret Smith, also known as Stevie Smith. This poem deals with the separation of two lovers and how the speaker feels long after the break-up.
