Anthology 8/18 Flashcards
She walks in beauty
quote: Intensity
She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies
She walks in beauty
quote: Purity v Impurity
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place
She walks in beauty
quote: light
Thus mellowed to that tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies
She walks in beauty
quote: True love / Perfection vs Imperfection
Had half impaired the nameless grace which waves in every raven tress, or softly lightens o(v)er her face
She walks in beauty
quote: Honesty
But tell of days in goodness spent, a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent
She walks in beauty
Form and structure
3 stanzas, regular
Rhyme scheme, regular
She walks in beauty
Type of poem
Love
Sonnet 43
Quote: Intensity
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
Sonnet 43
Quote:
Purity vs Impurity
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise
Sonnet 43
Quote:
True love / Perfection vs Imperfection
Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death
Sonnet 43
Quote: Light
I love thee to the level of every day’s most quiet need, by sun and candlelight
Sonnet 43
Quote:
Honesty
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
Sonnet 43
Form and Structure
14 lines, sonnet
Rhyme scheme, regular
Sonnet 43
Type of poem
Love
The Soldier
Quote: Suffering
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed: a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware
The Soldier
Quote: Trauma
That there’s some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England
The Soldier
Quote:
Hope vs Hopelessness
And think, this heart, all evil shed away
The Soldier
Quote: Pain and Sadness
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven
The Soldier
Quote: Strength v Fragility
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home
A Wife in London
Quote: Suffering
His hand, whom the worm now knows
She suffers
A Wife in London
Quote: Trauma
He – has fallen – in the far South land
A Wife in London
Quote: Hope v Hoelessness
Like a waning taper the street-lamp glimmers cold
A Wife in London
Quote: Pain and Sadness
In the summer weather, and of new love that they would learn
A Wife in London
Quote: Form and Structure
4 stanzas, regular
Rhyme scheme, regular
‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’
quote: time
As imperceptibly as Grief the summer lapsed away
‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’
quote - hope
Our Summer made her light escape into the Beautiful
‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’
quote - growth v deterioration
Or Nature spending with herself sequestered Afternoon
‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’
quote - stability v instability
A courteous, yet harrowing Grace
‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’
Quote - trust
Too imperceptibly at last to seem like Perfidy
‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’
Form and Structure
1 stanza
No rhyme scheme
‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’
Poem type
Nature
‘The Prelude’
Quote theme:
Freedom and Oppression
I heeded not the summons: - happy time it was, indeed, for all of us
‘The Prelude’
Quote theme:
Sense of Injustice
Into the tumult sent an alien sound of melancholy, not unnoticed
‘The Prelude’
Quote theme:
Light v Dark
The orange sky of evening died away
‘The Prelude’
Quote theme:
Hope v hopelessness
In games confederate, imitative of chace and woodland pleasures
‘The Prelude’
Quote theme:
Time Passing / Nature
Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud, the leafless trees, and every icy crag
‘The Prelude’
Form and Structure
1 stanza
No rhyme scheme
‘The Prelude’
Poem Type
Place
London
Quote theme:
Freedom and Oppression
I wander thro’ each charter’d street
London
Quote theme:
Sense of Injustice
Blasts the new born Infant’s tears, and blights with plagues the Marriage hearse
London
Quote theme:
Light v Dark
Every black’ning Church appals; and the hapless Soldier’s sigh run in blood down Palace walls
London
Quote theme:
Hope v Hopelessness
In every cry of every man, in every Infant… , in every voice,… the mind-forg’d manacles I hear
London
Quote theme:
Time Passing / Nature
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow
London
Form and Structure
4 stanzas, regular
Rhyme scheme, regular
London
Poem Type
Place
‘Ozymandias’
Quote theme:
Time
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away
‘Ozymandias’
Quote theme:
Hope
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
‘Ozymandias’
Quote theme:
Groeth v Deterioration
Tell that its sculptor… which yet survive
‘Ozymandias’
Quote theme:
Stability v Instability
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert
‘Ozymandias’
Quote theme:
Trust
The hand that mocked them
‘Ozymandias’
Form and Structure
1 stanza
No rhyme scheme
‘Ozymandias’
Poem type
Nature
‘Ozymandias’ - all in one
5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type
‘Ozymandias’
Time:
“Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away”
Hope:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Growth Vs Deterioration:
“Tell that its sculptor… which yet survive”
Stability Vs Instability:
“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert”
Trust:
“The hand that mocked them”
Form and structure:
- 1 stanza
- No rhyme scheme
Context:
Percy Bysshe Shelley who only really became famous after his death. This poem was written after he heard about an Italian explorer who had received this statue from a desert
Poem type:
Nature
‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ - all in one
5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type
‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’
Time:
“As imperceptibly as Grief the summer lapsed away”
Hope:
“Our Summer made her light escape into the Beautiful”
Growth Vs Deterioration:
“Or Nature spending with herself sequestered Afternoon”
Stability Vs Instability:
“A courteous, yet harrowing Grace”
Trust:
“Too imperceptibly at last to seem like Perfidy”
Form and structure:
- 1 stanza
- No rhyme scheme
Context:
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. She lived in almost complete isolation in her adult years, but also wrote many letters and poems, usually discussing death and nature
Poem Type:
Nature
London - all in one
5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type
‘London’
Freedom and Oppression:
“Near where the charter’d Thames does flow”
Sense of injustice:
“Blasts the new born Infant’s tears, and blights with plagues the Marriage hearse”
Light Vs Dark:
“Every black’ning Church appals; and the hapless Soldier’s sigh run in blood down Palace walls”
Hope Vs Hopelessness:
“In every cry of every man, in every Infant… , in every voice,… the mind-forg’d manacles I hear”
Time passing / Nature:
“I wander thro’ each charter’d street”
Form and structure:
- 4 stanzas, regular
- Rhyme scheme, regular
Context:
William Blake was an English poet and artist who held quite radical social and political views for that time; believing in social and racial equality and questioning the church
Poem type:
Place
The prelude - all in one
5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type
‘The Prelude’
Freedom and Oppression:
“I heeded not the summons: - happy time it was, indeed, for all of us”
Sense of injustice:
“Into the tumult sent an alien sound of melancholy, not unnoticed”
Light Vs Dark:
“The orange sky of evening died away”
Hope Vs Hopelessness :
“In games confederate, imitative of chace and woodland pleasures”
Time passing / Nature:
“Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud, the leafless trees, and every icy crag”
Form and structure:
- 1 stanza
- No rhyme scheme
Context:
William Wordsworth came from the Lake District. This poem is an autobiography of key moments from his life, published after his death
Poem type:
Place
The soldier - all in one
5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type
‘The Soldier’
Suffering:
“In that rich earth a richer dust concealed: a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware”
Trauma:
“That there’s some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England”
Hope vs Hopelessness:
“And think, this heart, all evil shed away”
Pain and Sadness:
“And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven”
Strength vs Fragility:
“Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home”
Form and structure:
- 2 stanzas, irregular
- Rhyme scheme, irregular
Context:
Rupert Brooke was an English poet who wrote ‘The Soldier’ when WW1 broke out in 1914, and died in service of the Royal Navy in 1915
Poem type:
War
A wife in London - all in one
5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type
‘A Wife in London’
Suffering:
“His hand, whom the worm now knows”
(She suffers)
Trauma:
“He – has fallen – in the far South land”
Hope vs Hopelessness:
“Like a waning taper the street-lamp glimmers cold”
Pain and Sadness:
“In the summer weather, and of new love that they would learn”
Strength vs Fragility:
“She sits in the tawny vapour”
Form and structure:
- 4 stanzas, regular
- Rhyme scheme, regular
Context:
Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset. ‘A Wife in London’ was written during the Boer War. He presents war as pointless and destructive
Poem type:
War
She walks in beauty - all in one
5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type
She walks in beauty
Intensity:
“She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies”
Purity vs Impurity:
“How pure, how dear their dwelling-place”
Light:
“Thus mellowed to that tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies”
True love / Perfection vs Imperfection:
“Had half impaired the nameless grace which waves in every raven tress, or softly lightens o(v)er her face”
Honesty:
“But tell of days in goodness spent, a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent”
Form and structure:
- 3 stanzas, regular
- Rhyme scheme, regular
Context:
Lord Byron was a popular English poet, also known for his lavish lifestyle and scandalous affairs. The poem was originally written to be set to music
Poem type:
Love
Sonnet 43 - all in one
5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type
- Sonnet 43
Intensity:
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height”
Purity vs Impurity:
“I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise”
True love / Perfection vs Imperfection:
“Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death”
Light:
“I love thee to the level of every day’s most quiet need, by sun and candlelight”
Honesty:
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
Form and structure:
- 14 lines, sonnet
- Rhyme scheme, regular
Context:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in Country Durham, she wrote this poem as part of a series of sonnets about her future husband, Robert Browning, called Sonnets from the Portuguese
Poem type:
Love
The Soldier
Form and structure:
- 2 stanzas, irregular
- Rhyme scheme, irregular
The Soldier
Poem Type
Poem type:
War
