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Anthology 8/18 Flashcards

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She walks in beauty

quote: Intensity

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She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies

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She walks in beauty

quote: Purity v Impurity

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How pure, how dear their dwelling-place

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She walks in beauty

quote: light

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Thus mellowed to that tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies

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She walks in beauty

quote: True love / Perfection vs Imperfection

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Had half impaired the nameless grace which waves in every raven tress, or softly lightens o(v)er her face

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She walks in beauty

quote: Honesty

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But tell of days in goodness spent, a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent

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She walks in beauty

Form and structure

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3 stanzas, regular

Rhyme scheme, regular

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She walks in beauty

Type of poem

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Love

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Sonnet 43

Quote: Intensity

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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

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Sonnet 43

Quote:
Purity vs Impurity

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I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise

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Sonnet 43

Quote:
True love / Perfection vs Imperfection

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Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death

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Sonnet 43

Quote: Light

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I love thee to the level of every day’s most quiet need, by sun and candlelight

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Sonnet 43

Quote:
Honesty

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

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Sonnet 43

Form and Structure

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14 lines, sonnet

Rhyme scheme, regular

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Sonnet 43

Type of poem

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Love

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The Soldier

Quote: Suffering

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In that rich earth a richer dust concealed: a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware

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The Soldier

Quote: Trauma

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That there’s some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England

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The Soldier

Quote:
Hope vs Hopelessness

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And think, this heart, all evil shed away

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The Soldier

Quote: Pain and Sadness

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And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven

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The Soldier

Quote: Strength v Fragility

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Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home

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A Wife in London

Quote: Suffering

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His hand, whom the worm now knows

She suffers

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A Wife in London

Quote: Trauma

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He – has fallen – in the far South land

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A Wife in London

Quote: Hope v Hoelessness

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Like a waning taper the street-lamp glimmers cold

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A Wife in London

Quote: Pain and Sadness

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In the summer weather, and of new love that they would learn

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A Wife in London

Quote: Form and Structure

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4 stanzas, regular

Rhyme scheme, regular

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‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’

quote: time

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As imperceptibly as Grief the summer lapsed away

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‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’

quote - hope

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Our Summer made her light escape into the Beautiful

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‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’

quote - growth v deterioration

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Or Nature spending with herself sequestered Afternoon

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‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’

quote - stability v instability

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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace

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‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’

Quote - trust

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Too imperceptibly at last to seem like Perfidy

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‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’

Form and Structure

A

1 stanza

No rhyme scheme

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‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’

Poem type

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Nature

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‘The Prelude’

Quote theme:
Freedom and Oppression

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I heeded not the summons: - happy time it was, indeed, for all of us

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‘The Prelude’

Quote theme:
Sense of Injustice

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Into the tumult sent an alien sound of melancholy, not unnoticed

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‘The Prelude’

Quote theme:
Light v Dark

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The orange sky of evening died away

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‘The Prelude’

Quote theme:
Hope v hopelessness

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In games confederate, imitative of chace and woodland pleasures

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‘The Prelude’

Quote theme:
Time Passing / Nature

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Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud, the leafless trees, and every icy crag

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‘The Prelude’

Form and Structure

A

1 stanza

No rhyme scheme

38
Q

‘The Prelude’

Poem Type

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Place

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London

Quote theme:
Freedom and Oppression

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I wander thro’ each charter’d street

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London

Quote theme:
Sense of Injustice

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Blasts the new born Infant’s tears, and blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

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London

Quote theme:
Light v Dark

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Every black’ning Church appals; and the hapless Soldier’s sigh run in blood down Palace walls

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London

Quote theme:
Hope v Hopelessness

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In every cry of every man, in every Infant… , in every voice,… the mind-forg’d manacles I hear

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London

Quote theme:
Time Passing / Nature

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Near where the charter’d Thames does flow

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London

Form and Structure

A

4 stanzas, regular

Rhyme scheme, regular

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London

Poem Type

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Place

46
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‘Ozymandias’

Quote theme:

Time

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Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away

47
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‘Ozymandias’

Quote theme:

Hope

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‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

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‘Ozymandias’

Quote theme:

Groeth v Deterioration

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Tell that its sculptor… which yet survive

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‘Ozymandias’

Quote theme:

Stability v Instability

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Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert

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‘Ozymandias’

Quote theme:

Trust

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The hand that mocked them

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‘Ozymandias’

Form and Structure

A

1 stanza

No rhyme scheme

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‘Ozymandias’

Poem type

A

Nature

53
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‘Ozymandias’ - all in one

5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type

A

‘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

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‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ - all in one

5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type

A

‘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

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London - all in one

5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type

A

‘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

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The prelude - all in one

5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type

A

‘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

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Q

The soldier - all in one

5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type

A

‘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

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Q

A wife in London - all in one

5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type

A

‘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

59
Q

She walks in beauty - all in one

5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type

A

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

60
Q

Sonnet 43 - all in one

5 quotes
Form and structure
Context
Poem Type

A
  • 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

61
Q

The Soldier

Form and structure:

A
  • 2 stanzas, irregular

- Rhyme scheme, irregular

62
Q

The Soldier

Poem Type

A

Poem type:

War

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