list Of Poems Flashcards
Captain of the 1964 top of the form team
Monologue from the perspective of a middle-ages man who is disappointed by his current life and reminisces about his more successful school years
Litany
A poem in which the poet remembers how as a child she shocked her mothers friends by saying a swear word
Nostalgia
A poem about early mercenaries who leave their home in search of fortunes, but experience loneliness and longing. Nostalgia means ‘sentimental longing for the past’
Stafford afternoon
A child leaves her families street and goes to explore the woods but is shocked by an encounter with a stranger
Before you were mine
The poet looks at photographs of her mother as a young women and tried to imagine what her life must have been like before she became a mother
Beachcomber
A poet remembers a day she spent at the beach as a child. Beachcombing ‘is searching for things at the beach’
Dialogue between the voice of the poem and the person who is recalling the memory
First love
Persona describes a dream of the person who was her first love. The dream seems very real to her and brings her close to the person she used to love
Valentine
Poem in which the persona uses the onion as a symbol of the pain of love as well as a metaphor for her undying loyalty
The biographer
Dramatic monologue in which a man writing a biography of another writer realised tat he can never measure up to his success
The cliche kid
Dramatic monologue in which a person appears to be telling their psychoanalyst about traumatic past experiences which have shaped their life
Small female skull
A lyric poem in which the persona contemplates her mortality
Never go back
Poem in which the persona returns to a place where she used to live and reflects on how much she and it have changed
Close
Poem about the emotions involved in the breakdown of a romantic relationship
Mean time
Poem in which the speaker expresses her regrets about the end of a relationship
