Essay Plan Flashcards
Which two poems should I use for Love and Dramatic Monologue?
Anne Hathaway - Carol Ann Duffy
Adam’s Curse - W.B Yeats
Essay plan for Love and Dramatic Monologue.
Form
Consciousness in regards to form. Almost metapoetic.
AH - sonnet form as an Ode to WS. Imperfections. Volta near the end = a reminiscence of love not dwelling on sorrow.
AC - heroic couplets shows ‘stitching and unstitching’. Irony - mastered poetry but not love. Wordsworth
Portrayal of love - motif of writing - equality
AH - conceit of writing portrays beauty of consensual sex. equality and idyllic love portrayed.
AC - courtly love, one sided, futile, not feminist. Seen as something to be laboured over.
Quotes I need to learn for Love and Dramatic Monologue.
Anne Hathaway
“he would dive for pearls”
“my body now a softer rhyme to his”
“moment’s thought”
“stitching and unstitching”
“you were beautiful”
“I strove to love you”
Which two poems should I use for Ballad?
Ballad of Orange and Grape
Ballad of Birmingham
Essay plan for Ballad.
Form
BB - typical ballad structure. Nursery-rhyme like sound, tragic irony
OG - modern ballad form, irony that even poetry and poetic form has progressed more than society has.
Symbol of little black girl
OG - inhabiting same street as “man who’d like to break your back”, will be part of the most targeted and oppressed groups, Rukeyser knows this won’t change in time for her to become a woman. Written 1973 - prophetic.
BB - emphasises the tragedy of the 16th street baptsists church bombing
Mother acts as a protective force which sadly will not be able to protect her child indefinitely.
Political statement
Both fit with balladic tradition
BB - little girl wishing to go to a freedom march instead of out to play. All encompassing issue for the black community, must be aware at a young age of the hatred they face.
OG - conceit of orange and grape the ‘hot-dog-man’ “he “looks at the two machines and he smiles and he shrugs and he smiles and pours again” synechdocal representation of societies indifference.
Quotes I need to know for ballad.
OG
‘hot-dog-man’
“He looks at the two machines and he smiles and he shrugs and smiles and pours again”
“brown woman with a little girl dresses in rose and pink”
BB
“freedom march”
“small brown hands”
Poems for lyric.
Funeral Blues - W.H Auden
Adam’s Curse - W.B Yeats
Essay plan for lyric.
Acceptance of a sorrowful reality.
Form and control
FB - elegiac stanzas + heroic couplets, wants it controlled, 14 imperative verbs. Have read countless elegies + want their beloved’s death to be in perfect alignment with what poetic grief should be. Loose iambic pentameter + hyperbole = ironic loss of control.
AC - heroic couplets shows ‘stitching and unstitching’. Irony - mastered poetry but not love. Wordsworth
Love, nature and futility
FB - imperative metaphors of last stanza, now lover is dead there is no use for moon or starts because his lover can no longer see them. hyperbole shows immense grief, out of his control.
AC - nature portrays Yeat’s futility in loving MG. Abundance of subtle pathetic fallacy (“summer’s end”, “daylight die”) then is explicit in final stanza with simile. simplicity reduces love to it’s essence.
Quotes to learn for Lyric.
FB
“put out [the stars] … Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood”
AC -
“stitching and unstitching”
“summer’s end”
“daylight die”
“yet we’d grown/ As weary-hearted as that hollow moon”
“That you were beautiful and that I strove to love you”
What two poems to use for Elegy
Funeral Blues - W.H Auden
Anne Hathaway - Carol Ann Duffy
Essay plan for Elegy
both explore the notion that love ends at death
Form
both as an ode to their lovers
AH - sonnet form as an Ode to WS. Imperfections. Volta near the end = a reminiscence of love not dwelling on sorrow.
FB - elegiac stanzas + heroic couplets, wants it controlled, 14 imperative verbs. Have read countless elegies + want their beloved’s death to be in perfect alignment with what poetic grief should be. Loose iambic pentameter + hyperbole = ironic loss of control.
Does love end at death?
AH - initially seems to have a positive perspective on grief . “I hold him in the casket of my widow’s head” - memory as casket and defining herself as widow evokes a notion that, in a sense, Anne has dies with William. Altered permanently, now just a vessel for mourning. Love has not and will not die, but the lovers are altered permanently.
FB - blatant. “I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong”, finality in love. All encompassing love (NESW) nothingness (put out the stars … wood). Poet wants the world to emulate his grief. Not able to comprehend a functioning world without his lover because his lover is his world.
Quotes for Elegy
FB
“I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong”
“he was my north, my south, my east, and west”
“put out [the stars] … Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood”
AH
“I hold him in the casket of my widow’s head”
Poems to use for sonnet.
Leda and the Swan - W.B Yeats
Anne Hathaway - Carol Ann Duffy
Essay plan for sonnet.
Form.
AH - sonnet form as an Ode to WS. Imperfections. Volta near the end = a reminiscence of love not dwelling on sorrow.
LS - shakey sonnet, loose ABAB rhyme . Couplet doesn’t rhyme - no resolution. Volta is moment of conception/ejaculation
Rape vs consensual sex
AH - beauty of consensual sex. Elizabethan woman challenges taboo. Equals (“diving for pearls”, “my body now a softer rhyme to his”) relationship lasts beyond death.
LS - helplessness through explicit descriptions (“staggering girl”, “helpless breast”, “her thighs caressed”) + implicitly through notion of power dynamic. Rape culture and manipulation by powerful rapists. Classical setting emphasises that rape is a problem which has lasted for centuries. Fuck Donald Trump
Quotes to use for sonnet.
AH
“diving for pearls”
“my body now a softer rhyme to his”
LS "staggering girl" "her thighs caressed" "helpless breast" "how can.." x2 "his knowledge with his power" "indifferent beak"
