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Name 2 poems that come under the theme of love & relationships AND describe how ‘love can be made up of lots of emotions’

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  • Sonnet 43
  • Valentine
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme of love & relationships AND look at the‘ordinariness of relationships’

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  • Cozy Apologia
  • Afternoons
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme of faith & worship AND talks about how ‘faith can be used to explore other emotions’

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  • Sonnet 43
  • Living Space
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme of faith & worship AND talks about how ‘worship isn’t restricted to religion’

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  • The soldier
  • She walks in beauty
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme of passage of time AND talks about how ‘time passing can have a negative effect’

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  • Afternoons
  • Ozymandias
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme of passage of time AND talks about how ‘time often has a cyclical nature’

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  • As imperceptibly as grief
  • To autumn
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme change & transformation AND talks about how ‘change is unpredictable & uncontrollable’

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  • As imperceptibly as grief
  • Afternoons
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme change & transformation AND talks about how ‘people’s views can transform as they grow’

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  • Death of a naturalist
  • Excerpt from ‘The prelude’
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme pain & suffering AND talks about how ‘suffering can be a collective or individual experience’

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  • London
  • A wife in London
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme pain & suffering AND talks about how ‘people can suffer physically & emotionally’

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  • Dulce et decorum est
  • The manhunt
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme death & loss AND talks about how ‘death & loss can cause pain’

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  • A wife in London
  • Mametz wood
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme death & loss AND talks about how ‘death can be comforting’

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  • The soldier
  • As imperceptibly as grief
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme effects of war AND talks about how ‘it can be seen through a group of soldiers’

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  • Dulce et Decorum est
  • Mametz wood
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme effects of war AND talks about how ‘it can be seen through an individual’

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  • The manhunt
  • A wife in London
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme negative emotions AND talks about ‘excessive pride’

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  • Hawk roosting
  • Ozymandias
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme negative emotions AND talks about ‘anger towards society’

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  • London
  • Dulce et decorum est
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme nature AND talks about ‘the praise of nature’

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  • To autumn
  • Excerpt from the ‘prelude’
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme nature AND talks about ‘the violent side to nature’

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  • Hawk roosting
  • Death of a naturalist
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme sense of place AND talks about how ‘urban places can inspire hope or leave people feeling hopeless’

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  • Living space
  • London
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Name 2 poems that come under the theme sense of place AND talks about how ‘natural settings are viewed as homely & familiar’

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  • The soldier
  • Excerpt from ‘The Prelude’
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What is the context of the manhunt?

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  • Wife of a soldier gets to know her husband again after he returns home injured from Bosnian war
  • Husband has physical scars
  • He also has psychological scars as a result of the traumatic experiences
    —> Poem goes from talking abt physical scars to mental scars
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Describe the form of the manhunt?

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FORM: couplet long stanzas have lines of varying lengths
—> Makes poem feel disjointed - reflects theme of brokenness

Enjambment - gives poem sense of movement , speaker has desire to keep making progress - even if it’s slow

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Describe the structure of the manhunt?

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Different injuries are introduced in different couplets - while moving down soldiers body
—> Allows reader to explore his body & mind in the same slow process as his wife

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Describe the language of the manhunt?

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Soldiers body presented using adjectives that describe damage - paired w/ metaphors to suggest his body became a collection of broken objects.
—> Damage has taken away some of his humanity or perhaps it could be a way for his wife to understand the pain in his injuries

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Give some **quotes** that are from **the manhunt**
* Repetition: 'Only then he would let me' * Imagery: 'damaged, porcelain collar-bone' & 'fractured rudder of shoulder-blade' * Enjambment: 'which (next line) every..'
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Who wrote **the manhunt**?
Simon Armitage
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What is the **context** of **sonnet 43**?
* Elizabeth write this poem as a part of a series of sonnets published in 1800's * Elizabeth wrote this for Robert Browning (her future husband) she eloped with him * She was deeply religious
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Describe the **form** of **sonnet 43**?
FORM: She follows tradition - Petrarchan sonnet ---> Specific rhyme scheme ---> Iambic pentameter ---> First person = personal feel
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Describe the **structure** of **sonnet 43**?
Made up of a series of different ways of defining the speakers love ---> Octave introduces poems main theme ---> Sestet develops the theme by showing she loves him w/ emotions of an entire lifetime
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What is an **octave**?
First eight lines
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What is a **sestet**?
Last 6 lines
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Describe the **language** of **sonnet 43**?
EXAGGERATED LANGUAGE: Hyperbole to show strength of speakers feelings ---> She uses exaggeration to try put her feelings into words RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE: Love is like a religion to her - touches all aspects of her life , gives meaning to her REPETITION: Anaphora - emphasises strength of her feelings ---> She has to repeat the same words to express the depth of her love - all words can't convey the intensity of her emotions
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What is **anaphora**?
Using same words repeatedly at the start of consecutive lines
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Give some **quotes** that are from **sonnet 43**
* Religious language: 'better after death' , 'with my lost saints' * Anaphora: 'I love thee' * Hyperbole: 'depth and breadth and height'
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Who wrote **sonnet 43**?
Elizabeth Browning
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What is the **context** of **London**?
* Blake had radical social & political views for the time - believed in social & racial equality * He questioned the church teachings * 1700s * He is describing a walk around London ---> Misery & despair is relentless
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Describe the **form** of **London**?
* Dramatic monologue - he speaks passionately & personally abt suffering * ABAB rhyme scheme seems unbroken ---> Echo's relentless misery of the city * Regular rhythm - sound of his feet as he trudges around
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Describe the **structure** of **London**?
Imagery: relentless images of deprived people ---> First 2 stanzas focus on ppl he sees & hears ---> SHIFT in stanza 3 to institutions he holds responsible
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Describe the **language** of **London**?
RHETORIC: Uses rhetorical language to persuade the reader of his POV ---> Powerful emotive words & images to reinforce the horrible situation SENSORY LANGUAGE: Sights & sounds of the city OXYMORON: Shows how everything is affected - nothing pure or innocent remains
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Give some **quotes** that are from **London**
* Rhetoric: 'How the chimney-sweeper's cry' * Sensory language: 'infant's cry of fear', 'I hear' * Oxymorons: 'Marriage hearse' , 'youthful Harlot's'
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Who wrote **London**?
William Blake
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What is the **context** of **the soldier**?
* Brooke wrote this the year WW1 broke out * He died serving in the royal navy in 1915 * Brooke talks about dying in a foreign country during war * Describes England as a mother who gave birth to him
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What is the **form** of **the soldier**?
* Sonnet - traditionally for love poetry ---> Traditionally written about a person - but in this poem his love is for England * First stanza - His voice is confident * Second stanza - Voice is reflective
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What is the **structure** of **the soldier**?
* Traditionally octave presents one idea & sestet represents another ---> Brooke followed the convention * Octave - speaker shows how England has enriched his life Sestet - He considers how, after his death, he will return the 'gifts' given to him by this country
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What is the **language** of **the soldier**?
* Personification - extended metaphor of England as a mother ---> He feels country has shaped him as a person ---> Mothers are associated w/ comfort - may explain why thinking abt his country during a time of distress is reassuring * Natural imagery: Idyllic nature & landscape ---> Love for English countryside * Religious imagery: Speaker seems to be religious ---> Thought of 'heaven' gives him comfort
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Give some **quotes** that are from **the soldier**
* Personification: 'England bore, shaped, made aware' * Natural imagery: 'air', 'rivers' * Religious imagery: 'eternal mind' , 'blest', 'English heaven'
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Who wrote **the soldier**?
Rupert Brooke
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What is the **context** of **she walks in beauty**?
* Byron was notorious for having wild love affairs w/ men & women * Poetry was considered erotic & scandalous - romantic poet * He describes a woman he's seeing - taking body parts in turn ---> Her appearance reflects her personality
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What is the **form** of **she walks in beauty**?
* Regular ABABAB rhyme scheme ---> Reflects the enduring nature of the woman's nature - she is a balance of different qualities * Iambic tetrameter + LOTS of enjambment - he is overwhelmed by the woman's beauty
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What is the **structure** of **she walks in beauty**?
* 3 stanzas of equal length * As the poem progresses - it focuses less on her physical appearance & more on her inner beauty ---> Narrator may think her personality is most beautiful ---> His evidence that she is a moral person = beauty
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What is the **language** of **she walks in beauty**?
* CONTRASTS: Shows how the woman is a balance of opposites - dark & light ---> Uses Antithesis * Imagery: Imagery of light & dark ---> Purity of night sky = innocent personality * Language abt body: Breaks the woman down into individual body parts ---> Shows how much he admires her & sees beauty in all parts of her ---> He believes that beauty is a reflection of her morally good character
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Give some **quotes** that are from **she walks in beauty**
* Antithesis - 'one shade' or 'one ray' to reduce her beauty * Imagery - 'tender light', 'cloudless climes' * Language abt body - 'cheek' , 'brow'
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Who wrote **she walks in beauty**?
Lord Byron
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What is the **context** of **Living Space**?
* Dharker was born in Pakistan - grew up in Scotland * Describes the slums of Mumbai (6.5 million live) * Lacks basic necessities & are extremely poor
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What is the **form** of **Living Space**?
* Irregular form - stanzas of different lengths ---> Mirrors sense of chaos & irregularity in the building the speaker describes * Lack of regular rhyme & rhythm & enjambment ---> Emphasizes disorder of the slums
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What is the **structure** of **Living Space**?
* Has 3 stanzas * 2 Parts ---> First stanza - description of an unstable building ---> 2/3 stanzas - mood shifts slightly, hints optimism for the future
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What is the **language** of **Living Space**?
* Language of disorder: chaos is shown through words which suggest instability * Symbolism: 'eggs' symbolise faith ---> Courage & trust ---> Eggs = new life. Inhabitants have faith that the future will be better * Light & dark: Dangerous nature of living conditions - white & dark ---> White = innocence ---> Eggs nor inhabitants are to blame for the precarious situation they find themselves in
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Give some **quotes** that are from **Living Space**
* Language of disorder: 'clutch' - emphasizes danger of the structure but also makes it seem alive * Symbolism: 'eggs' , 'fragile' * Light & dark: 'white eggs' stand out from 'dark edge' - dangerous living conditions
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Who wrote **Living Space**?
Imatiaz Dharker
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What is the **context** of **As imperceptibly as grief**?
* Compares transience to grief * Dickinson had a 'normal' childhood but became shy & recluse -like ---> She rarely left her bedroom * She had a lot of experience w/ sickness & death with those close to her
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What is the **form** of **As imperceptibly as grief**?
* Read as a sad elegy * Rhythm mirrors pattern of everyday speech - narrators honest thoughts * Uses long dashes instead of conventional punctuation ---> Enhances the poem's slow, reflective mood
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What is the **structure** of **As imperceptibly as grief**?
* Series of natural metaphors ---> Grief fades away gradually * Single stanza adds to gradual change ---> No stanza breaks * Speakers tone becomes more decisive after line 13 - may reflect how she comes to terms w/ the fact that grief ends
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What is the **language** of **As imperceptibly as grief**?
* Semantic field of time: changing of seasons is associated w/ different stages of grief ---> Association remains throughout poem - reflects slow, almost unnoticeable, way that time eases speaker's grief * Light imagery: reminder that the natural cycle of day & night will continue forever ---> inevitability that could be applied to other cycles - perhaps also to grief & acceptance * Contradictory images: Grief is not entirely unpleasant & that its end involves contradictory emotions
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Give some **quotes** that are from **As imperceptibly as grief**
* Semantic field of time: 'lapsed' , 'twilight' , 'dusk' * Light imagery: 'twilight' , 'dusk' * Contradictory images: 'harrowing Grace'
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Who wrote **As imperceptibly as grief**?
Emily Dickinson
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What is the **context** of **Cozy Apologia**?
* Autobiographical poem addressed to her husband * Comfort depicted against the backdrop of a looming hurricane * She has an interracial marriage - experienced discrimination * African American
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What is the **form** of **Cozy Apologia**?
* Written in free verse ---> Sounds conversational * Number of syllables in each line varies - reflects the speaker's train of thought * First stanza uses regular rhyming couplets * Rhyme scheme in second stanza is disrupted - reflects disorder brought by the rhyme scheme * New ABAB rhyme scheme is established in the last 4 lines
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What is the **structure** of **Cozy Apologia**?
* Poem begins w/ personal description of the speaker's feelings for her partner * Moves onto other topics but ends by describing their ordinary relationship
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What is the **language** of **Cozy Apologia**?
* Humour: Speaker uses this to prevent the poem becoming too sentimental ---> Takes exaggerated images of love & pokes fun at them ---> Doesn't take herself or husband too seriously * Everyday images of love: Links partner to domestic objects - relationship is ordinary * Colloquial language: Colloquial phrases = personal ---> Stops it from being too serious - contributes to humour
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Give some **quotes** that are from **Cozy Apologia**?
* Humour: 'Oddly male: Big Bad Floyd' * Everyday images of love: 'Twin desks, computers, hardwood floors' * Colloquial language: 'melancholy' and 'blues'
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Who wrote **Cozy Apologia**?
Rita Dove
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What is the **context** of **Valentine**?
* Author criticizes the society for being materialistic * Speaker is giving a gift to their partner * Challenges traditional romantic conventions
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What is the **form** of **Valentine**?
* Different to traditional love poems ---> Irregular lengths - makes poem seem disjointed * Some lines are *******. - forceful tone of speaker
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What is the **structure** of **Valentine**?
* Poem is a list of the ways the onion shows love ---> Word ideas are build up & repeated throughout the poem - could mirror the different layers of an onion * Tone is initially quite playful ---> But speakers repeated insistence (of the partner accepting the gift) can be read as encouraging or confrontational
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What is the **language** of **Valentine**?
* Extended metaphor: Extended metaphor of onion = represents love ---> Speaker sees onion as an honest symbol - symbolises joy & intimacy but also pain of love ---> Unusual metaphor - contrasts the stereotypical romantic symbols (like 'cute cards' or 'kissograms') * Direct address: Written in first person & addresses an unknown partner * Dangerous language: Unusual amount of negative language for a love poem ---> possessive relationship, may be dangerous
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Give some **quotes** that are from **Valentine**?
* Extended metaphor: 'cute cards' or 'kissograms' , 'onion', 'brown paper' * Direct address: 'Take it' , 'you' * Dangerous language: 'Lethal' , 'knife'
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Who wrote **Valentine**?
Carol Duffy
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What is the **context** of **A wife in London**?
* 1899 Boer war in South Africa * Hardy was anti-war * London was covered in thick fog during those times
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What is the **form** of **A wife in London**?
* Speaker of poem is an observer * Detached tone- reflects the wife's grief as an inevitable fact of war * Irregular rhythm & dashes create pauses - forces reader to focus on tragedy * Asymmetrical rhyme scheme is broken only once - in the second stanza ---> Reflects wife's struggles to take in the news
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What is the **structure** of **A wife in London**?
* Two parts (each w/ its own title) ---> Titles create anticipation & factual descriptions add to speakers tone
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What is the **language** in **A wife in London**?
* IMAGERY: detailed visual image of fog foreshadows wife's sorrow. Images of light can represent how the husband's life has ended too soon - or perhaps the sadness caused by his death * IRONY: Title of second paragraph sets up expectation of irony. Irony is created in final stanza when husband's hopes & youthful energy is juxtaposed w/ wife's grief ---> Young man's potential & future have been cut short
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Give some **quotes** that are from **A wife in London**?
* Imagery: street lamp is 'cold', candle is 'waning', fog 'hangs thicker' when the news has been delivered * Irony: 'hoped return', 'new love'
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Who wrote **A wife in London**?
Thomas Hardy
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What is the **context** of **Death of a Naturalist**?
* He spent a lot of time in nature * Brother passes away in a car accident (aged 4) * Car accident explores the loss of innocence in poetry * He remembers how he used to collect frogspawn ---> Shift in his perception of nature highlights the way that people's views change as they grow up
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What is the **form** of **Death of a Naturalist**?
* Poem has a first person narrator who is reflecting on their childhood * Written in blank verse - makes poem sound conversational * Lack of rhyme scheme may suggest that change is not always predictable
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What is the **structure** of **Death of a Naturalist**?
* Poem has 2 stanzas * 1st Stanza: Childish enthusiasm makes their relationship w/ nature seem secure (hints of decay) * 2nd Stanza: Relationship becomes more troubled - nature is presented as unfamiliar & threatening
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What is the **language** of **Death of a Naturalist**?
* Sensory language: Lets reader become immersed in poem & focuses on poem's setting ---> Sibilance emphasises the sound of nature 'sound', 'smell' * Semantic field of war: Creates a threatening atmosphere ---> Narrator's innocence has been lost - nature is seen as dark & potentially harmful
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Give some **quotes** that are from **Death of a Naturalist**?
* Sensory language: 'gargled delicately' , 'slobber' ,'sound', 'smell' *Semantic field of war: 'threats', 'invaded'
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Who wrote **Death of a Naturalist**?
Seamus Heaney
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What is the **context** of **Hawk Roosting**?
* Hughes uses animals as metaphors for his own visions of life - emphasizes the destructive forces & energy in nature * A hawk boasting about its power
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What is the **form** of **Hawk Roosting**?
* Dramatic monologue ---> Traditionally dramatic monologue addresses a silent audience - could be mankind * First person voice - gives hawk authority ---> Use of end-stopping gives several lines a decisive feel ---> Reflects hawks complete control
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What is the **structure** of **Hawk Roosting**?
* Poem begins w/ hawk in an almost meditative state ---> Hawk then talks abt god & nature & how it has superiority over both * Monologue ends w/ confident statement abt future ---> Emphasizes hawks sense of power & control
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What is the **language** of **Hawk Roosting**?
* VIOLENT IMAGERY: Powerful images of violence & death ---> How quickly the hawk kills - almost as if it enjoys killing ---> Rejects subtlety & deception in favour of violent tactics * POWERFUL LANGUAGE: First person pronouns appear in each stanza ---> Formal language & political language emphasises how the hawk is articulate - highlights power
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Give some **quotes** that are from **Hawk Roosting**?
* Violent imagery: 'Bones of the living' , 'manners are tearing off heads' * Powerful language: 'sophistry' , 'my right', 'I', 'I began'
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Who wrote **Hawk Roosting**?
Ted Hughes
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What is the **context** of **To autumn**?
* Keats was a romantic poet * He was dying of TB & was aware his time was almost up
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What is the **form** of **To autumn**?
* An ode * Written in iambic pentameter ---> Rhyme scheme changes slightly * Ode's usually have 10 lines but this has 11 - reinforces plentiful nature of autumn
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What is the **structure** of **To autumn**?
* In each stanza, he introduces an aspect of autumn in the first line * Poem's structure can be seen showing transience ---> Links morning w/ early autumn & sleepy mood for mid autumn, afternoon hints approach of winter
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What is the **language** of **To autumn**?
* PERSONIFICATION: Keats personifies autumn in the second stanza - shows its hardworking but also takes breaks & relaxes ---> Autumn also ages (same way a human does) ---> Seems to be mourned in the final stanza * SENSORY LANGUAGE: Each stanza appeals to a different sense ---> Reflects the abundance of autumn - present all around * LANGUAGE OF EXCESS: Language associated with abundance - autumn can provide a bountiful harvest ---> Hints that it might be slightly too much - excess could foreshadow the start of death
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Give some **quotes** that are from **To autumn**?
* Language of excess: 'plump' , 'swell' * Personification: 'think not of them' * Sensory language: 'bleat' - shows how natural world is still rich w/ life
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Was is an **ode**?
A serious poem that is usually written in praise of a person or thing
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Who wrote **To autumn**?
John Keats
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What is the **context** of **Afternoons**?
* He reflects on young mothers & marriage - explores loss of identity * Poem was published in 1960's - could show how women were stereotypically seen as housewives
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What is the **form** of **Afternoons**?
* 3 equal stanzas * No regular metre - makes poem feel stilted, lack of excitement in mothers lives * Poem is narrated in 3rd person but tone is unclear ---> Speaker could be belittling women or pitying them
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What is the **structure** of **Afternoons**?
Speaker establishes setting then women's lives ---> Examines past identities to what they are now ---> Final stanza returns to the present & implies nothing will change - no hope
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What is the **language** of **Afternoons**?
* GENERALISATIONS: Speaker uses specific objects to make sweeping statements abt working class women * DOMESTIC IMAGERY: Reinforce gender roles of era - cause women's repetitive existences ---> Marriages have lost spark over time & settled into something ordinary * NATURAL IMAGERY: Nature is used to mirror change in peoples lives ---> Arrival of autumn suggests a new phase has started
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Give some **quotes** that are from **Afternoons**?
* Generalisations: 'wedding albums' * Domestic imagery: 'estateful of washing' * Natural imagery: 'courting-places' - wind ruining it shows nature is actively working against them
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Who wrote **Afternoons**?
Phillip Larkin
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What is the **context** of **Dulce et Decorum Est**?
* Owen fought in WW1 for the British - suffered shell shock * Killed in action - 1 week before Armistice ---> Exposes reality of war/ glorification of war * Poem describes suffering of exhausted soldiers marching away from battle
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What is the **form** of **Dulce et Decorum Est**?
* Poem uses alternate rhymes - reflect relentlessness of the soldiers suffering * Enjambment & caesura create a disjointed rhythm * Irregular stanza length & metre adds to the sense pf uncertainty
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What is the **structure** of **Dulce et Decorum Est**?
* Tone is serious at the start, narrator paints a picture of his memories & how he is still affected * Poem becomes an appeal aimed at the reader - narrator adopts an ironic tone to put his opinion across
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What is the **language** of **Dulce et Decorum Est**?
* REALISTIC IMAGES OF WAR: Poem opens w/ reality faced by soldiers at war ---> Shows how war effected the soldiers * GRAPHIC IMAGERY: Narrator's descriptions become more graphic - especially in the final stanza ---> Shocks reader & tries to remove glorification of war by demonstrating how it really is * SENSORY LANGUAGE: Uses sounds to emphasise the horror of war ---> Contrasted ironically w/ first stanza
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Give some **quotes** that are from **Dulce et Decorum Est**?
* Realistic images of war: 'blood-shod' , 'knock-kneed' * Graphic imagery: 'froth-corrupted lungs' , 'devil's sick of sin' * Sensory language: 'gargling' , 'watch the white eyes' - alliteration draws attention to the suffering he faced
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Who wrote **Dulce et Decorum Est**?
Wilfred Owen
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What is the **context** of **Ozymandias**?
* Romantic poet * Based on damaged statue of the Egyptian pharaoh, Ramesses 2nd ---> He was a cruel leader * Explores fate of history & nature being more powerful than anything else
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What is the **form** of **Ozymandias**?
* Petrarchan sonnet form w/volta at line 9 * Doesn't follow regular sonnet rhyme scheme ---> Maybe reflects the way that human power & structures can be destroyed * Iambic pentameter - often disrupted ---> Story is a second hand account - distances the reader from the dead king
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What is the **structure** of **Ozymandias**?
* Builds up an image of statue by focussing on different parts of it * Ends by describing enormous desert - sums up statues insignificance
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What is the **language** of **Ozymandias**?
* IRONY: Nothing left to show for the ruler's arrogant boasting ---> Ruined statue can be seen as a symbol for temporary nature of political power ---> Use of irony reflects his hatred for oppression & belief it is possible to overturn social/political order * LANGAUGE OF POWER: Focuses on human power - but it has been lost to nature ---> Nature & time has more power than anything else * AGGRESSIVE LANGUAGE: Tyranny of the ruler is suggested through this
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Give some **quotes** that are from **Ozymandias**?
* Irony: 'shattered visage' * Language of power: 'lifeless' , 'survive' * Aggressive language: 'kings of kings' , 'ye mighty'
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Who wrote **Ozymandias**?
Percy Shelley
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What is the **context** of **Mametz wood**?
* Soldiers at Mametz wood were part of the new army volunteers * It is an elegy * He fought in WW1 in France
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What is the **form** of **Mametz wood**?
* Poem is written in tercets * 3rd person - sense of distance & detachment * Enjambment & long sentences = reflective tone
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What is the **structure** of **Mametz wood**?
* Poem moves forward chronologically ---> Last stanza poet finds a mass grave * Thoughtful tone & slow pace doesn't change ---> Emphasises lasting effects of war & time it takes for the earth to heal
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What is the **language** of **Mametz wood**?
* PERSONIFICATION: Earth is personified as someone who needs healing & someone guarding the soldiers memory * IMAGES OF BROKENNESS: narrator details injured body parts in a list & described damage to the skeletons ---> Shows how war can dehumanise people * CONTRASTING IMAGES: Narrator often contrasts violent images of war w/ human fragility ---> Reminds reader of soldiers humanity & horrifying conditions they faced
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Give some **quotes** that are from **Mametz wood**?
* Personification: 'back into itself' , 'earth stands sentinel' * Images of brokenness: 'china plate' * Contrasting images: 'nesting machine guns' , 'broken birds egg of a skull'
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Who wrote **Mametz wood**?
Owen Sheers
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What is the **context** of **Excerpt from 'The Prelude'**?
* Part of a very long poem * His early life was a 'prelude' to the man he became * Published after his death * Describes him ice skating with his friends - nostalgic
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What is the **form** of **Excerpt from 'The Prelude'**?
* First person narrative ---> Looking back on his own memories ---> Almost seems idyllic * Blank verse & enjambment creates a regular rhythm - makes it sound like natural speech
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What is the **structure** of **Excerpt from 'The Prelude'**?
* 2 main sections * First section = fun the children are having - tone is light & carefree * Second section = distinct change when it turns to nature, tone is more serious
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What is the **language** of **Excerpt from 'The Prelude'**?
* LANGUAGE OF MOVEMENT: Speaker uses short, monosyllabic verbs to increase poems pace ---> Speed of movements & youthful energy * ANIMAL IMAGERY: Narrator compares himself & friends to animals ---> Close connection to nature * SENSORY LANGUAGE: Sibilance & onomatopoeia allows readers to imagine sounds in poem ---> Contrasts humans to nature ---> Humans = noisy & nature = delicate & unusual
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Give some **quotes** that are from **Excerpt from 'The Prelude'**
* Language of movement: 'flew' , 'wheel'd' * Animal imagery: 'untir'd horse' , 'hunted hare' * Sensory language: 'hiss'd along the polish'd ice'
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Who wrote **Excerpt from 'The Prelude'**?
William Wordsworth

English Literature (13 decks)

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