Box

I suppose we should all be grateful to television. The most massive of the mass media has, after all, made it possible for millions of people to see a wide range of dramatic literature – a larger exposure for Shakespeare in one night, say, than Ashland and Stratford together might hope to gain in 10…

Liz Lochhead’s poem ‘ Box Room ‘ clearly presents her contradictory thoughts and feelings about an experience. A first visit to a boyfriend’s hostile mother is first presented with great confidence but later becomes an experience of unease and despair. The first few lines of the poem show that the mother is very hostile :…