Potential Themes
Power – Eat Me, The Gun, Please Hold
Gender – Eat Me, The Gun, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man
Transgression and taboo – Eat Me
Loss – History, Genetics
Fear – History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man
Conflict – History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Please Hold
Society – Eat Me, History, An Easy Passage, The Gun, Genetics, From the Journal of a
Disappointed Man, Please Hold, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
Childhood – History, An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self
Identity – Eat Me, History, An Easy Passage, Genetics, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man
Culture – An Easy Passage, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man, Please Hold, Ode on a
Grayson Perry Urn
Guilt - The Lammas Hireling
Folklore – The Lammas Hireling
Change – An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, The Gun, History, Genetics, Please Hold
Innocence and naivety – History, An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Genetics, From the
Journal of a Disappointed Man
Regret - An Easy Passage, The Lammas Hireling, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, From the Journal of a
Disappointed Man
Family – History, Genetics
Religion – Genetics
Time – An Easy Passage, To My Nine Year-Old Self, Please Hold, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
Youth – An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
Relationships – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling, Genetics, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
Adults looking back on childhood incidents – An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self
Unusual events – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling
Tragedy – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling
Death – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun
Anger – History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Please Hold
Disturbing events/situations – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Ode on a
Grayson Perry Urn
Memories – History, An Easy Passage, The Lammas Hireling, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Genetics,
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
Ideas of what we inherit from the past – History, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Genetics, Ode on a
Grayson Perry Urn
First person narrative voice – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling, To My Nine-Year-Old Self,
The Gun, Genetics, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man, Please Hold
Morality – History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
Discomfort – History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun
Danger – Eat Me, History, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
Class – From the Journal of a Disappointed Man, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
History – An Easy Passage, To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Genetics, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
Work – An Easy Passage, From the Journal of a Disappointed Man
Nature – History
Symbolism – An Easy Passage, The Lammas Hireling, The Gun, Genetics, From the Journal of a
Disappointed Man, Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn