English poems- structure and form Flashcards
What is the structure and form of Out of the Blue?
Structure:
Enjambment gives conversational feel
Varied line length captures mans thoughts and feelings
Repetition of “ing” dynamic verbs capture movement
Increase sense of despair
Form:
Elegy shows mournful tones and comments on souls lost
Not political comment
1st person more personal allowing reader to identify and sympathise
What is the structure and form of Flag?
Structure: First line is always a question Second line is repetitive The flags definition and purpose change, this leads to a loss of moral compass Rhyme scheme lasts until the end impacting the reader Form: Story like quality due to questions Elements of dramatic monologue
What is the structure and form of Mametz Wood??
Structure:
Length of line changes - ploughing of field
Reflects the changing in the focus of the poem as well as the land
1 + 4 land 2 + 3 bones and people 7 all three element combined “unearthed” skulls singing death
Form: 3rd person sense of observing
Elegiac tone give voice to dead
Exposes damage to nature
The Yellow Palm
Structure: Every other line rhymes Each stanza is a sentence making it story like Contrast Form: ballad with a deliberately repetitive refrain 1st person more personal Ballad gives it song like elements
The Right Word
Structure:
Enjambment allows thought to flow freely
Self- contained stanzas of different lengths with caesuras break up pace
Definition changes
Form:
1st person
Free verse allows her to express her thoughts freely to understand the person she is trying to define
At the Border,1979
Structure:
Self-contained stanza gives story like elements
Form:
Free verse makes it conversational
Retrospective narrative element makes it story like
Female child perspective
1st person
Poppies
Structure: Free verse to express feelings Stanzas vary in length Enjambment gives pace and follows thoughts and feelings Caesura allows digest Form: 1st person Mothers perspective dramatic monologue highlights a loss
Futility
Structure:
Extended metaphor and personification ( the sun is god )
Shortening line lengths to suggest cyclical nature of war
Equally split 7:7
Form:
Manipulated sonnet
Doesn’t follow rules so has a mournful tone
3rd person sense of detachment
2nd stanza is Owens point if view
Last two lines are a rhyming couplet which is full if bitter grief and frustration
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Structure:
Lots if enjambment to convey movement and short lines to create pace
Repetition and anaphora each verse ends with the same phrase
Dactylic metre
Stanzas numbered ti give militarised feeling
Form:
3rd person
Tense changes
Bayonet Charge
Structure: Compressed time to provide a snapshot Element of narrative Enjambment to give sense if running Form: 3rd person Free verse and lack if rhyme scheme captures erratic helplessness nature of war Free verse to dhow emotion
The Falling leaves
Structure:
Enjambment gives conversational feel
Personification and simile capture mournful tone
Semi-colon splits poem between leaves and soldiers dying
Form:
1st person
Dramatic monologue
Every 4 lines rhyme
One long complex sentence capturing the snowflakes movement
Come On, Come Back
Structure:
Lines recall to show descent into death
Varying line lengths and lack of rhyme scheme show chaos
Enjambment shows loss of thought and fluid nature of conflict
Caesura shows finality to her suffering
Form:
Narrative free verse and lack of rhyme scheme evokes fictional tones
3rd person
Elements of an elegy to generate sorrow
next to of course god america i
Structure:
Lack of punctuation creates fluid motion and nonsense
Free verse monologue and massive question
No full stop after last line so there is more to say
Form:
Speech said in one breath
Flurry of emotion
Manipulated sonnet to avoid love of country
Hawk Roosting
Structure: Caesuras create command like language and capture spread of thought Militaristic structure Extended metaphor captures bitter tone Form: 1st person Dramatic monologue High degree if central formal character
