Modern Potery Flashcards
Poetry Introduction?
Holistically, when forming a critical comparison of both ………….by ……………….. and……………. by …………….. the integral theme of …………….. is presented as fundamental within both poems, allowing both poets to purposefully condemn the …………….. Thus, in exploring this theme I will adopt a thematic approach, considering the centric ideas of…….
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn?
by Tim Turnbulld
Allusion to Keats’s poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”- cynical, societal critique of how society is fixed on materialism and class
REGUALR decastitches
CAESURA “no harm befall these children. They will stay”
SUBORDIANTE CLAUSE “tranquillity, though, is for the rich”
PLOSIVE “pensioners and parents”
METAPHOR “chlamydia roulette”
Perry- used traditional forms such as vases and tapestries, and contemporary art
Please Hold?
By Carian Driscoll
A satirical and dismissive poem condemning the ways in which technology consumes society- baseless nature of human relationships
Direct Address- 1 STANZA AND A (TECRCET=short=small amount of hope left)
STATACO, MONOSYLLABIC WORDS “please grow old, cold”
IRONY “wonderful” “great”
PARADOX “no options in a guise of countless alternatives”
The Journal of a Disappointed Man?
by Andrew Motion
Implicit criticism on the ways in which society expects men to inherently behave- toxic masculinity
Monosyllabic vs ELOQUENT POLYSLLABLIC “ruminative”
QUATRIANS- don’t break regularity
ASYNDETON “pulleys, chains, ropes”
IRONY “journal”= feelings
VOLTA “nevertheless, I could tell these men were up against”
CYCLICAL “left the pile swinging in the air- can’t shift- can’t shift expectations and pressure
Genetics?
By Sinead Morrisey
The wonder of Human Creation- family bonds/ ties
The eternal legacy parents leave behind
CHIASMUS “my fathers in my fingers but my mothers in psalms”
VILANELLE- 5 tercets and one quatrain- repetitive= Double Helix
Rhyme “hands” lands”
“hemispheres”- N and S pole- Ice/ Cold
HOMPOHONE- “repelled”- drive back/be repulsed
The Gun?
By Vicki Feaver
“a gun brings a house alive”
OXYMORONIC / PARADOXICAL- in death there’s life
colon “just practice”= time to consider their descent
“sex was fresh”- sibilant and fricative- SENSUAL JOY in killing- primal nature
women “join(s) in”= subverts gender expectations
“trample fur and feathers”- disregard for nature (fricative)
“grey shadow” vs “green cloth”- foregrounds subjugation of nature
“golden crocuses”- life and rebirth- DULITY of life and death “sprouting”
- contain a deadly toxin, pagan belief-natural cycles of L+D
- crocus- Classical Mythology- a mortal youth changed by the gods into a saffron flower
A Letter to My Nine Year Old Self?
By Helen Dunmore
Personal, Exophoric and Nostalgic Tone
AN APOTROPHE- direct address
“into the summer morning”- rhetorical question
Quintain (5), Sestet (6), 7, Sestet (6), Quintain (5)
“shan’t cloud your morning”- HOMOPHONE- death and start of day
“ripe scab”- likely to scar- mental and physical scar
PRONOUNS “we” “you” I”
The Lammas Hireling?
By Ian Duhig
DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE- the feel of a performance
“stock- still” in the light- PARARHYME- mystery/ frozen in time/memory of the poetic voice
“fur over like a mossing stone” - links to the hare- A MAGIC CREATURE IN BRITISH FOLKLORE
HIS lovely head, HIS top lip= homoerotic undertones
SYNDETIC “light heart and a heavy purse”
ANAPHORA “and a heavy purse, and cattle doted him”
ZOOMOPRHISM” fox trap biting his ankle”
In some oathbound magical traditions, a warlock is used to mean a binding or tying. Possible roots in Norse Mythology
Originally used in Scotland to mean a cunning man, or a male witch.
An Easy Passage?
By Julia Copus
A rite of passage- FREE VERSE, SINGULAR STANZA
IRONIC title - stuck, trying to get into the house
Omniscient, heterodiegetic narration= universal ideas
ENJABMENT- fast paced passage from childhood- adulthood
“what can she know”- VOLTA+ R.Q- internal rhyme “grow”
“silver anklet”- PRIVELIDGE/ LUXURY- symbolises wealth and success- silver medal?
“flush faced secretary”- fricative societal critique
“petrified beach”- emotional turmoil/ hardened to stone
History?
By John Burnside
Actual moment in History: Twin Towers- macrocosm but the small everyday History also holds significance “other bodies”
IRREGULAR= waves, unpredictability of life, scattered thoughts
extended metaphor- beach= ground for events in history “life in all this driftwork”
“petrol blue of jellyfish”- petrol= cynical undertones of how nature is destroyed by mankind- fossil fuels
“attentive to the irredeemable”- so focused on irredeemable events, forget the present, redeemable events
“FOUR QUARTETS- four poems by T.S. Elliot- “all time is unredeemable”
Eat Me?
By Patience Agbabi
A perversion of a Love Poem - a grotesque relationship- imperative
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“broad belly wobble”-onomatopoeia and plosive alliteration
ALLUSION “Carol’s Alice in Wonderland” lack of REALISM
ANAPOHORA “too fat”
“big girls, soft girls”- INFANTALISES WOMEN
“forbidden fruit”- sin- GARDEN OF EDEN- serpent- Fall of Mankind subverted- Fall of Womenkind
GAVAGE feeding- forced= restraint and repression
“JUGGERNAUT”- large force, large lorry
“Juggernaut” is the Anglicized name for the Hindu god Jagannathan, the “Lord of the Universe.”
