History Flashcards
What are the stanza length’s like in History?
Mostly uneven which reflects the chaotic and uncertain nature of life
What quotes show the narrator finding clarity and certainty?
‘At times…behind the names’ and ‘Sometime I am dizzy’
Use of full stops in the poem?
-very few full stops which is essentially compromised of three sentences. This perhaps represents the unstructured and chaotic nature of life, which is something the narrator grapples with throughout the poem.
Rhyme scheme in the poem?
No consistent metre or rhyme scheme except for the ‘pockets’ of iambic pentameter in the more organised stanzas.
Analyse ‘today we flew the kites’
Roots the poem in the present - introduces the idea that the narrative is about how we find personal meaning in everyday life in a changing, disconnected, traumatic world
Analyse’ i knelt down in the sand’
-Spiritual image - religion is put forward as another way of finding meaning in what is sometimes seemingly a meaningless and unfair world.
‘i ____ down in the sand’
knelt
Analyse ‘the sea, the sky/all living creatures, forests, estuaries’
-Listing shows how the narrator becomes overwhelmed by the beauty and vastness of the world.
