poems Flashcards
what is context for living space
author is Dharker
about mumbai slums and people who move from rural areas in hope for a better life
what is structure for living space
3 thin stanzas
lines ‘lean off’ eachother
2nd stanza is squeezed between the 1st and 3rd
what are quotes for living space
not enough straight lines
leans dangerously
miraculous
squeezed a living space
dark edge of the slanted universe
bright, thin walls of faith
what is context for london
author is blake
about the victorian era which he lived in
was against the monarchy
what is structure for london
4 quatrains which follow an ABAB rhyme scheme
lots of repetions
what are quotes for london
charter’d
mark
in every
blackening church
soldiers sigh
marrige hearse
what is context for the manhunt
author is armitage
from the perspective of a soldiers wife, the soldier has PTSD
when the soldier got the shot the bullet travelled/bounced around his body
what is structure for the manhunt
written in many couplets, they start of rhyming but this is not consistent
what are quotes for the manhunt
passionate nights and intimate days
trace, explore
porcelain collarbone
fractured rudder
grazed heart
foetus of metal
only then did i come close
what is context for sonnet 43
author is browning
wrote 44 sonnets about her husband robert browning
eloped against fathers wishes to marry robert browning
what is structure for sonnet 43
sonnet form
iambic pentameter
what are quotes for sonnet 43
i love thee
my soul
sun and candlelight
freely as men strive for right
breath, smiles,tears, of all my life!
i shall but love thee better after death
what is context for the soldier
author is brooke
soldier during ww2 and was burried is cyprus
passionate for england
what is structure for the soldier
italian sonnet
what are quotes for the soldier
the soldier
if i should die
whom england bore shaped and made aware
all evil shed away
laughter learnt of friend
hearts at peace under an enlgish heaven
