OC Flashcards
Fat black Woman’s poems
1984
Sunris
1996
Lazy Thoughts of a lazy woman
1989
Island Man
Fat black Woman’s poems (1984)
Fat black Woman goes shopping
Fat black Woman’s poems (1984)
Hurricane Hits England
Sunris (1996)
Wherever I hang
Lazy thoughts of a Lazy woman (1989)
Enduring Love was written in….
1997
Othello was written in….
Believed to be 1603
Almost simultaneous with the desire to stay….
Chapter 1, p13-14
Jean Logan led me into a cramped back room….
Chapter 13
The beginning is simple to mark….
Chapter 1
Outside our apartment building….
Chapter 7
O sir, content you….
Act 1, Scene 1
Her father loved me….
Act 1, Scene 3
And what’s he then that says I play the villain
Act 2, Scene 3
This fellow’s of exceeding honesty….
Act 3, Scene 3
Blank verse
Un-rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter (10 syllables) in poetry and prose
People involved in the accident
Joe Rose, Jed Parry, James/Harry Gadd, Toby Greene, John Logan, and Joseph Lacey
John Logan
Family Doctor
Joseph Lacey and Toby Greene
Farm workers
Jed Parry
Unemployed, maybe living on an inheritance
James Gadd
Pilot and Advertising executive
Harry Gadd
Grandson of James Gadd
Iago is….
A roman god with two faces
Name of the Hurricane
Hattie
Huracan
Mayan god of wind, storm and fire
Shango
Storm God
Oya
God of wind, lightning, and violent storms
Grace Nichols was influenced by:
the history and culture of her homeland, in particular the oral story-telling tradition with its fantastic folk tales, the landscape and its rural tasks and the history of enslavement
Grace Nichols context: (Adult Years)
She spent many years travelling to the most remote areas of Guyana to support her writing for Guyana’s Government information services. These experiences placed a heady impact on her future writing, especially with influence from what she learnt and heard during this period - including myths and folktales
“Her poems celebrate sensuality and generosity and attack petty mean spiritedness”
Peter Forbes, contemporary Writers
Peter Forbes, Contemporary writers
“Her poems celebrate sensuality and generosity and attack petty mean spiritedness”
Ronald Draper, an unholy alliance (listens)
“Othello listens to Iago as he never listens to Desdemona, and it is this listening to one, and failure to listen to the other which destroys him”
Ronald Draper, Unholy alliance (Othello)
“He (Othello) has allowed Iago to become his mentor and soul-mate, but has never been able to understand in dire complexity exactly what has been done to him”
Ian McEwan Context
Ian McEwan was born in Hampshire in 1948, and spent his childhood in Singapore and North Africa before moving back to the UK for university. McEwan’s first book of short stories was published in 1975 and his first novel in 1978
Ian McEwan wrote enduring love
in a spirit of investigation, rather than trying to give a lot of answers to either how people should live or whether one could live a good life by scientific method.
Iambic pentameter
Phrase with 10 syllables
