Anthology poems

Question 1

IF - structural teqniques

Answer 1

1. Fixed form - 4 stanzas of 8 lines
2. Iambic pentameter - helps keep the positive and upbeat tone through the peom.
3. Use of pronoun ‘You’ - This makes the poem personal and more imformative to the reader on how to have a sucessful life

Question 2

IF - Literary devices

Answer 2

1. Repetition - of the word ‘If’. allows the reader to feel like they are working their way through the peom to find out what will happen if they do all the things Kipling says.
2. Anaphora - The listing of ‘If at the start of many of the lines creates a listing feel. A list of all the things you need to do to be successful
3. Enjambament - Slows down the poem by cutting up the lines
4. Caesura - Also to slow the poem down so the reader can properly take in the information

Question 3

Prayer Before Birth - Structure and Form

Answer 3

1. Dramitic Monologue - Creates a distinct persona (the unborn child) allows the reader to appreacite the tension between the innocent speaker and their adult fears
2. Free Verse - visually could symbolise the growing child as it comes closer to being born, also seems free and spontanious as if speaking to god
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Question 4

Prayer Before Birth - Literary devices

Answer 4

1. Anaphora - Gives rhe poem a prayer liek quality. reinfoces the speakers innocence with the repetition of ‘ I am not born yet’
2. Paradox - Paradoxes run through the peom. Juxtaposing the unborn child’s wishes to be protected from the harmful world. Shows parents fears for their child
3. Epistrophe - Forces our attention on the personal pronoun ‘me’ emphasises the vunrebility of the unborn child at the start of the poem
4. Metaphor - The speaker fears being hardened and being devoid of emotion ‘let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me’

Question 5

Blessing - structural devices

Answer 5

1. Free Verse - Allows the poem to flow freely like water does
2. Enjambament - Encourages the reader to keep reading until the sentance finishes rather than the line
3. No rhyme scheme - There is no set rhyme scheme that gives the poem no structure and makes it not riged like water

Question 6

Blessing - Literary Devices

Answer 6

1. Alliteration - ‘polised to perfection’ emphsises the effect of both words
2. Imagery - ‘row of tongues’ envokes vivid imagery
3. Oxymoron - ‘liquid sun’ makes the reader stop as the sun cannot be liquid

Question 7

Search for my tongue - Structural devices

Answer 7

1. Free Verse - Shows her freedom of speech. Allows her to change langages more fluidity to show her fluid identity
2. Volta - Turning point in tone from pesimism to optimism
3. Enjambament - Makes the poem harder to read like the difficlty of speaking a forgien lamgauge

Question 8

Search for my tongue - Literary devices

Answer 8

1. Repetition - Shows importance of writers tongue
2. Use of Senses - Allows us to viulise and feel the rebirth of her tongue
3. Grotesque Imagery - Shows horror of losing her tongue

Question 9

Half-Past two - Structural Devices

Answer 9

1. Free Verse - Allows the poet to make the peom more free and unpredicatble just like how a child thinks
2. Capital letters in the middle of sentances - Shows the way a child writes and understands language
3. Made up words - There are examples of large words that are a mash-up of other words. such as ‘timeyouwereofftime’

Question 10

Half-Past two - Literary Devices

Answer 10

1. Alliteration - Empahsis the words that are being alliterated
2. Personification - Of time, makes time feel more complete and mekss it feel non-existant
3. Ejambament - Long sentances like how a child would write
4. Caesura - Slows down the sentacnes for more empahsis

Question 11

Piano - Structural devices

Answer 11

1. Fixed Structure - Structure is like a hymn which his mother used to sing to him
2. Rhyming Couplets - Simple rhymes like a child which he remebers being during the peom
3. Inverted Syntax - ‘softly in the dark’ Puts emphasis on the ‘softly’

Question 12

Piano - Literay Devices

Answer 12

1. Sibilance - repetition of soft sound to give a childish sound
2. Similies - ‘weep like a child’ refers back to the part where he was child
3. Metahphor - ‘flood of rememberance’ flooded of memories of his mother
4. Juxtaposition - ‘winter outside’ juxtaposed to ‘evenings at home’. Cold and harsh to warm and cosy

Question 13

Hide and Seek - Structural Devices

Answer 13

1. Rhyme scheme - there is no set rhyme scheme and only some lines rhyme with one another. This seems to represent a mix od adult and child poety as the former rhymes while the latter doesnt. This mix creates a free-wheeling feeling much like a game of hide and seek
2. Iambic Pentameter - Has a some parts with normal meter and others without it. Some bit of unmatching meter are hidden like they are playing hide and seek. This also makes the poem structuraly feel like a game of hide and seek

Question 14

Hide and seek - Literary devices

Answer 14

1. Imagery - The poem “Hide and Seek” by Vernon Scannell is full of rich imagery, even though the main character spends most of the time hiding in the dark. The poem evokes the surroundings through a variety of non-visual cues, appealing more to the senses of smell, touch, taste, and hearing than to sight. It’s as if the darkness has sharpened the main character’s other senses. The poem uses imagery to create a vivid sensory experience for the reader, focusing on the smells, tastes, and textures of the hiding place. The visual imagery is limited, and the poem ultimately emphasizes sensory deprivation, reflecting a deeper psychological experience of isolation and loss.

Question 15

Sonnet 116 - Structural devices

Answer 15

1. Sonnet - It is a traditional sonnet so 14 lines but that can be split into 3 quatrains and a final rhyming couplet
2. Volta - between line 12 and 13 there is a turn or shift in the poem. In this sonnet it serves as a way to summarize the poem. It says how certain Shakespear is of him being right
3. Couplet - This is where the volta occurs and it is a rhyming couplet

Question 16

Sonnet 116 - Literay devices

Answer 16

1. Repitition - ‘love is not love’. This repetition emphasized the speaker’s belief that true love is not affected by external factors, and remains constant despite any changes or challenges that may come its way.
2. Personification - “Love’s not Time’s fool.” By giving the abstract concept of love human-like qualities, the speaker was able to convey the idea that love is not controlled by time and its passing.
3. Metaphor - “It is the star to every wand’ring bark.” The metaphor compared love to a guiding light for those who may be lost or uncertain, showing its ability to provide direction and support.

Question 17

Poem at 39 - Structural devices

Answer 17

1. Free Verse - There is no set rhyme scheme or structure like the memories of her father as she doesnt have full memory of him. She remembers him throught actions such as cooking or writing checks. Relaxed and coversational tone. Stream of conscience - memory + recollection
2. **Enjambament ** - much like a memory as she doesnt know where she is going next

Question 18

Poem at 39 - literary devices

Answer 18

1. Similie - “He cooked like a person / dancing / in a yoga meditation” - shows with how much joy her father approches life. He makes his cooking seem like dancing as he is so nonchalent when he does it.
2. Repitition - ‘How I miss my father’ the first use of this is at the start of the poem and this makes the poem feel and seem like it is going to be more of a euolgy to her father. The second use of it is in more of an unbeat manor in a way. It makes feel like the act of Walker going through the memoires of her father has renforced her and made her stronger.