Captain Cook (To my Brother) Flashcards
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Who is the poet?
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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When was it written?
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c. 1820
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Context:
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- Captain Cook was a famous explorer who wrote many journals about his travels
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Poet’s life:
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- Landon and her brother where very close- she paid for him to go to university and supported his decision to become a minister. However, later in life, he spread rumours about her marriage and her death
- Landon lived in the countryside with her family, but was forced to move to London during the agricultural depression
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Language, form and structure:
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- written in 8 quatrains
- AABB rhyme scheme
- rhyming couplets create a sense of peace and enjoyment which underlines Landon’s happiness and memories of her brother
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Natural Imagery:
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- lots of references to beauty of nature- long green grasses, roses, water lilies
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Travel imagery:
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- references to Cook’s travels show her admiration of him but also her longing to travel back in time to her happy relationship with her brother and with nature
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Rhetorical questions and exclamations:
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- directly addresses the reader and her brother by asking ‘Do you recall?’ and ‘Ah!’ to draw the attention and remind her brother of happier times
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Tone:
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- nostalgic, with a tint of regret/remorse that things have had to change
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Personification:
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- use of personification in ‘beneath the morning smile’ adds to the world of fantasy and the innocence of Landon’s memories
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Techniques used:
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personification
rhetorical questions and exclamations
imagery related to travel and nature
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Themes:
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memory
lost innocence and relationships
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Poems for comparison:
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We Refugees
Pechkham rye lane
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Quotes:
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‘As actual, but more pleasant, than what the day now brings’
‘mid the storm and strife’
‘the life that cometh after dwells in a darker shade’
‘there is not of that garden a single tree or flower’
