Ros Barber

LitCharts guides for works by Ros Barber

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

Material

In "Material," Ros Barber meditates on the disappearance of a once-ubiquitous object: the cloth handkerchief. Though the poem's speaker found her mother's frilly "hankies" deeply unfashionable as a... view guide