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Norman MacCaig Poetry > Links With All Poems > Flashcards

Links With All Poems Flashcards

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Nature

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Sounds of the Day -Natural world used to examine endings, intrusion
Memorial – surprising images of nature
Aunt Julia – crofting existence close to nature, a relic of the past – like the shark
Basking Shark – natural evolution
Visiting Hour – out of place, disconnected, fragility of patient
Assisi – imagery of dwarf and tourists, St Francis
Nature Imagery – Sounds of the Day, Territory –Basking Shark, Aunt Julia

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Life death and suffering

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Life Death and Suffering
Visiting Hour – imagery of dying is monstrous,
Assisi - dwarf has benefit of being alive – suffering
Memorial – walking elegy – poetic voice grieves for his wife
Sounds of the Day
Coping with death, loss, separation – Memorial, Sounds of the Day
Loss – Sounds of the Day, Memorial, Visiting Hour, Aunt Julia

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symbols

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Symbols
Basking Shark – monster, but reflecting on who the monster really is.
Assissi – dwarf is a ruined temple – a symbol of need and charity

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Techniques connect all poems

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  • repetition to emphasise a point,
  • alliteration to highlight certain word or sound
  • assonance to highlight a vowel sound
  • parallel sentence structure to draw attention to the contrast
  • Onomatopoeia to recreate a sound, vivid memory or experience
  • Enjambment to highlight the word at the end of the line, but to run on deliberately – can reflect speed of progress.
  • Rhythm of lines to reflect action of the poems
  • Unusual images to describe something that has been life changing or shocking
  • Word choice that recreates a scene
  • Clever use of Imagery – (similes, metaphors, personification)
  • Rhyme to highlight sounds or words
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Sympathy and empathy

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Visiting Hour, Memorial, Aunt Julia, Assisi, Sounds of the Day

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Fragility

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Memorial, Contrasts with Aunt Julia

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Monster

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glass fang – Assisi, Basking Shark

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Darkness, hopelessness, silence

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Memorial, Aunt Julia, Sounds of the Day

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numbness

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Sound of the Day, Visiting Hour, Memorial

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Prejudice

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Basking Shark, Aunt Julia

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Ideas – recreating a memory, nostalgia, celebrating a special moment, experience

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– Memorial, Aunt Julia, Basking Shark, Sounds of the Day, Memorial

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Survival

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Aunt Julia, Memorial

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inability to communicate

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Visiting Hour, Aunt Julia

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Nostalgia – looking back to past –

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Basking Shark, Memorial, Sounds of the Day, Aunt Julia

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distance

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– Visiting Hour, Memorial, Sounds of the Day, Basking Shark, Aunt Julia

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Visiting Hour Main Theme and Presentation of It

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Facing up to mortality

  • He is angry that he can do nothing in the face of death
  • He feels isolated by death and feels profound loss

Image of decay
“A withered hand trembles on its stalk”
“wasted of colour”
“white cave of forgetfulness” – metaphor, suggests the isolation of the woman

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Quote to show the character in visiting hour

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I will not feel, I will not feel, until I have to.

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Striking word choice in visiting hour

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Striking words
“Guzzling”
means eat or drink (something) greedily.
fruitless fruits” – oxymoron, captures the poet’s despair

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structure in visiting hour

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Turning point
Ward 7
Free Verse – suits the subject matter as the poet is confused

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tone in visiting hour

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Despair

Bitterness

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Aunt Julia Main Theme and ideas surrounding it

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Regret
Anger –”that by the time he was able to speak any Gaelic his aunt was dead and the chance was gone
Nature-
“But I hear her still, welcoming me in a seagull’s voice across a hundred yards of peats apes and lazy beds”

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Imagery in Aunt Julia

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Decay
She lay silenced in the absolute black of a sandy grave

Nature
“winds pouring wetly round house ends” – the place is bleak

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setting in aunt julia

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Hers was the only house where I’ve lain at night in a box bed, listening to crickets

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character in aunt julia

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She was buckets .. She was winds … She was brown eggs

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word choice Aunt Julia

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Striking words
“flouncing”
go or move in an exaggeratedly impatient or angry manner.

“silenced” contrasts to “very loud and very fast”

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TP in Aunt Julia

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Turning Point

By the time I had learned a little she lay silenced

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structure in Aunt Julia

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Free Verse

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Tone in Aunt Julia

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Anger/Frustration

Affection

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Theme and Ideas in Assisi

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Hypocrisy
Anger – that the priests should have cared for the dwarf but more interested in the tourists
Contrast - the beggar (deformed, ugly) sits outside a magnificent church –he is isolated.

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Imagery in assisi

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Decay
Sat slumped like a half filled sack
Ruined temple - isolation

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setting in assisi

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Three tiers of churches built in honour of St Francis, brother of the poor

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character in assisi

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Grazie in a voice as sweet as a child’s when she speaks to her mother

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structure in assisi

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Turning Point
I understood the explanation and the cleverness

Line breaks and enjambment for emphasis

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Tone in Assisi

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Anger

Bitterness

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Themes and Ideas in Memorial

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Grief
Anger – that the death has created this intolerable distance between him and his sister
Sense of unending grief that is felt when a loved one dies

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Imagery in Memorial

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Decay
Black words
Focus on sound – “the silence of her dying sounds through the carousel of language”

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setting in Memorial

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Everywhere I go she dies

No sunrise, no city square, no lurking beautiful mountain

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structure in memorial

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Enjambment

Free Verse – Death of a loved one represents a formlessness, so the structure matches the content

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Tone in memorial

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Hopelessness

Despair

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Basking shark Theme

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Reflection – reflects on humanity’s relationship to the natural world
-Nature

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character in basking shark

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“decadent townee”

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Structure in Baskin Shark

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Infinitive Verbs start the first two lines; captures your attention
Rhyme Scheme
To try to imitate the rhythmic quality of the sea
The regularity of rhythm and rhyme matches the rhythmic quality of the sea itself, its rise and fall, and likewise the steady pulling of the oars.

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tone in basking shark

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Discomfort

Reflective

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Focus on senses

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Focus on sound – “the silence of her dying sounds through the carousel of language” “on a sea tin-tacked with rain” – focus on visual and sound
Focus on sound – “a clatter came”; “black drums rolled”

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setting in sounds of the day

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beside the quietest fire in the world”

46
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significant word choice in sounds of the day

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quietest

numb

47
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Structure in sounds of the day

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Turning Point
Stanza two – the closing door
Free verse – matches the poet’s feelings

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Tone in sounds of the day

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despair

Pain-filled

Norman MacCaig Poetry (17 decks)

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