gluck Flashcards
often argued as?
a half confessional poet
lesser
she blended deeply personal material with themes of nature
lesser
her language is remarkably straight forward, staunchly close to the diction of ordinary speech
context
personal traumas, universalised
before she was born, had a sibling who died, and states aside never meeting, she lives with this grief
depression; divorced
the garden
“i couldn’t do it again, i hardly bear to look at it”
- falling in and out of complex love
- brewing arguments
- different views in relationships
the end of winter
“you wanted to be born; i let you be born”
- ironic title
- truths about being a mother
- mother daughter relationship
the wild iris
“at the end of my suffering there was a door”
- death isn’t the end of life, mysterious transformation
- resurrection
witchgrass
“something comes into the world unwelcome calling disorder disorder”
- plant persona
- religious language
- weeds taking over nature
clear morning
“i’ve watched you long enough i can speak to you any way i like”
- God
- new beginnings
- communication and superiority
retreating wind
“when i made you i loved you, now i pity you”
- lexical field of everlasting wishes
- love, life and progress
the hawthorn tree
“side by side, not hand in hand”
- free speaker
- humans can’t come back from this dangerous lifestyle
love in the moonlight
“sometimes a man or woman forces his despair on another person, which is called baring the heart, alternatively baring the soul”
- romantic assumption, but is actually quite dense
- motif of light
the doorway
“i want to stay as i was still as the world is never still”
- extestential shifts
- free verse
midsummer
“how can i help you when you all want different things”
- confrontational
- god x
end of summer
“after all things occurred to me, the void occurred to me”
- plato’s cave, theory of forms, ideal perfect version
