Roger McGough

LitCharts guides for works by Roger McGough

Explore LitCharts poetry guides for works by Roger McGough. Each guide offers line-by-line analysis, exploration of poetic devices, and helpful resources for studying Roger McGough's poetry.

The Lesson

Roger McGough's "The Lesson" was first published in his 1976 collection In The Glassroom. In this (very) darkly comic poem, a beleaguered teacher takes corporal punishment to an absurd extreme: the... view guide