English Poetry Anthology Flashcards
The Manhunt - context and what can it be compared to?
Written from Laura’s perspective about her husband Eddie Bedoe who was a peacekeeper in Bosnia, was shot once and it richocheted all through his body, could compare with a Wife in London
key quotes in manhunt
- parachute silk of punctured lung
- ‘only then’ and ‘then’ - anaphora
- unexplored mine
- damaged porcelain collar bone
themes of manhunt?
relationships and war
who’s manhunt written by and context?
Simon Armitage, has never been in war, but quite anti war - likes to write from other peoples perspectives
A wife in London - context and what can it be compared to?
written about the second boer war, which was fought in South Africa, no brits in uk or sa knew what they were fighting for, uk gov only cared about diamond reavers so individual families with husbands fighting wouldn’t have been benefitted and wouldn’t have compensation for death. manhunt
a wife in London who was it written by and context on them?
Thomas Hardy - lived through Victorian and Edwardian era and through WW1, famous for novels - far from madding crowd, at end of century started to write poems instead. was not involved in conflict - like Owen sheers. also in third person narration
what could a wife in London also be linked to?
mametz wood - wanted people to see war from people who were affected’s thinking/ perspectives
a wife in London - points and quotes
- iambic tetrameter
- 2 named and numbered parts - the tragedy and the irony
- 5 stanzas
- his hand whom the worm now knows
- penned in highest feather of his hoped return
- in the far south land
- street lamp glimmers cold
who wrote death of a naturalist and context?
Seamus Heaney - Northern Irish poet - used the Irish identity in his poems a lot, experienced ‘The Troubles’ - civil war between British gov and catholic party
death of a naturalist context and comparison?
writes about natural world and memories of growing up in a farm in Northern Ireland, a flax dam - stinky pool that flax rota and softens in. about Seamus Heaney losing some of his innocence. could compare with hawk roosting as they are to do with natural world
Death of a Naturalist structure and quotes?
- free verse and enjambment - flows
- 2 stanzas - 1st is childhood innocence and 2nd is death of innocence
- lots of references to senses and animals: 1- bubbles gargled, huge sods , warm thick slobber 2- bass chorus, gross bellies frogs, blunt heads farting
- innocence - talks about tadpoles and mammy frogs in p1
- discovery - talks about the spawn dragging him in and being chased and told off by frogs
hawk roosting who wrote it and context?
Ted Hughes - more interested in darker parts of nature, was productive in second part of 20th century, lived and grew up in countryside and campaigned for disarmourment of nuclear bombs
Hawk roosting - context and what can it be compared to?
written from point of view of a hawk, animal possessed of its power, hawk could represent the eagle of Nazism, hawk has hubris feeling of power above the gods. could be compared to death of a naturalist
structure and quotes of hawk roosting:
- enjambment makes the poem flow ‘c and full stops draw attention to the sentence at the end of the line
- simple and short sentences
- formal, rigid structure shows of how the hawk sees himself (top of the hierarchy)
- lots of words about death
- i hold creation in my foot, the earths face for my inspection - very egotistical
- the allotment of death
- is in control - ‘no arguments assert my right’ and ‘I am going to keep things like this’!
