Poems

Question 1

All the poems that have theme of love

Answer 1

Sonnet 130.
To his coy mistress.
The laboratory.
When you are old.
Remember.
I carry your heart.
Wild oats.
Before you were mine.
Symptoms of love.

Question 2

All the poems that have theme of grief

Answer 2

On my first son.
Remember.
Funeral blues.
Long distance 2.
Clearances 7.

Question 3

On my first son language techniques

Answer 3

Conventional parting.
Religious language.
Imagery.
Archaic form of you.
Conventional opening in the title.
Hyphen.
Adjective.
Superlative.
Alledgy.
Rhyming couplets.

Question 4

Sonnet 130 language techniques

Answer 4

Possessive pronoun.
Sonnet.
Conjunction.
Colour symbolism.
Alternative lines rhyming.
Comparative adjective.
Adjective.
Metaphor.

Question 5

To his coy mistress language techniques

Answer 5

Collective pronoun.
Dramatic monologue.
Rhyming couplets.
Alliteration.
Metaphor.
Comparative adjective.
Logic.
Simile.
Adjective.
Verb.
Personification.
Sibilance.

Question 6

The laboratory language techniques

Answer 6

Dramatic monologue.
Rhyming couplets.
12 quatrains.
Adverb.
Metaphor.
Alliteration.
Repetition.
Imperatives.
Exclamation mark.
Onomatopoeia.

Question 7

Remember language techniques

Answer 7

Imperative.
Italian sonnet.
Metaphor.
Adverb.
Repetition.
Collective pronoun.
Conjunction.
Comparative adjective.
Euphemism.
Irregular rhyming scheme.

Question 8

When you are old language techniques

Answer 8

Adjective.
Iambic pentameter.
Enjambment.
Imagery.
Assonance.
Anaphora.
2nd person.
Contrast.
Repetition.
Religious connotations.
Alliteration.
Personification.

Question 9

I carry your heart language techniques

Answer 9

Defying conventions.
Irregular sonnet.
Possessive pronoun.
Parentheses.
Repetition.
Lack of capitalisation.
Enjambment.
Term of endearment.
Metaphor.
Superlative.
Repetition of nature.
Links to universe.
Biblical connotation.
Elements of the universe.
Alliteration.
Comparative adjective.
Isolation.
Conventional ending.
Spacing at the end is unconventional.

Question 10

Funeral blues language techniques

Answer 10

Imperatives.
AABB rhyme-rhyming couplets.
Onomatopoeia.
Adjective.
Personal pronoun.

Question 11

Long distance || language techniques

Answer 11

Elegy.
Conversational/observational tone.
Enjambment.
Adjectives.
Metaphor.
Adverb.
Colloquial expression.
Onomatopoeia.

Question 12

Wild oats language techniques

Answer 12

Colloquial abbreviation.
Imagery.
Direct comparison.
Abrupt shift.
Facts.
Dismissive comment.

Question 13

Symptoms of love language techniques

Answer 13

Metaphor.
Negative connotations.
Noun.
Adjective.
Onomatopoeia.
Enjambment.
Adjective.
Tonal shift.
Exclamatory tone.
Imperative.

Question 14

Before you were mine language techniques

Answer 14

Possessive noun.
Monologue-first person.
Very conversational.
Metaphor.
Colloquial expression.
Repetition.
Filler.
Superlative.
Italics.
Adjective.
Triple.
Religious connotation.
Bitter tone.
Flattering and sad comparison.

Question 15

Clearances 7 language techniques

Answer 15

Sonnet.
Hyperbole.
Poignant irony.
Pitch.
Onomatopoeia.
Experience of bereavement.
Sudden abruptness.

Question 16

I am very bothered language techniques

Answer 16

Sensory appeal.
Sense of sight.
Metaphor.
Internal rhyme.
Traditional language of love poetry.
Plural noun.

Question 17

On my first son context

Answer 17

English playwright and poet.
He is regarded as the second most important English dramatist after William Shakespeare.
Jonson was a classically educated,well-read and cultured man of the English renaissance.
Johnson’s productivity began to decline in the 1620’s because a series of setbacks drained his strength and damaged his reputation.

Question 18

William Shakespeare context

Answer 18

William Shakespeare lived from 1564 to 1616.
He grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire.
When he was 18 he married Anne Hathaway and had three children.
Sonnet 130 makes fun of the typical hyperbolic love poetry.
Shakespeare was considered to be the best English poet and playwright of all time.

Question 19

To his coy mistress context

Answer 19

Andrew Marvell-1621 to 1678- was a poet, a politician and some say a spy.
Marvell was born in Yorkshire in 1621 and was educated in Hull and Cambridge.
He entered trinity College Cambridge when he was just 13 years old.
In 1678 Marvell died of a fever. It was rumoured at the time that he had been poisoned by Jesuits.
Marvell had been associated with the anti-royalist cause.
Marvell spent most of the 1650’s working as tutor.

Question 20

The laboratory context

Answer 20

Tells the tale of one lady’s nasty plot to kill her romantic rival.
Robert Browning based his poem on a real-life serial killer who had her head chopped off in the 17th century.
It reads like a long speech by one person and this style was Browning’s specialty.
Browning was one of the most famous and well-loved poets of England’s Victorian era.
The poem came out in 1844, on the early side of Browning’s long and successful career.

Question 21

Remember context

Answer 21

The sonnet remember was written by Christina Rossetti in 1849 when Rossetti was just 19 years old.
She is thought to be one of the most foremost women poets of the 19th century.
Born in London in 1830, Christina Rossetti belonged to a wealthy family and was brought up as a pious Anglican.
In addition, she is also well-known to make use of little visual detail in her poetry.
Christina is also said to have spent several years of her life in seclusion and she died in 1894 as a well-known poet.

Question 22

When you are old context

Answer 22

Poem highlights the unrequited love and failed relationship between the speaker and his former lover, Maud Gonne.
W B Yeats born in Dublin.
Poem published in 1892.
Won the Nobel prize for literature in 1923.
The poem is based on a French poem by a French poet Ronsard.

Question 23

I carry your heart context

Answer 23

1894-1962 American poet.
E E Cummings.
EEC was married twice;briefly on both occasions; finally, his longest relationship, a common law marriage with Marion Morehouse.
Poem was published in poetry magazine in June 1952 when EEC was in his fifties and still in the long-standing relationship with Marion Morehouse.
EEC described his approach to writing poetry as a process rather than a product.
Favourable critics draw attention to his clear childlike perception and his unaffected delight and wonder and his renewal of the cliche(overused emotional language).

Question 24

Funeral blues context

Answer 24

W H Auden
February 1907-1929.
Auden’s poetry is noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form, and content.
Auden was born in York and grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle-class family.
He attended various English independent (or public) schools and studied English at Christ Church, Oxford.

Question 25

Long distance 2 context

Answer 25

Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright. He was born in Beeston, Leeds.
He received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University.
He is one of Britain’s foremost verse writers and many of his works have been performed at the Royal National Theatre.
In 2015, he was honoured with the David Cohen Prize in recognition for his body of work.

Question 26

Wild oats context

Answer 26

Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian.
He was offered, but declined, the position of Poet Laureate in 1984, following the death of Sir John Betjeman.
After graduating from Oxford University in 1943 with a first in English Language and Literature, Larkin became a librarian.
It was during the thirty years he worked with distinction as university librarian at the Brynmor Jones Library at the University of Hull that he produced the greater part of his published work.
It was while working there that in early 1944 he met his first girlfriend, Ruth Bowman, an academically ambitious 16-year-old schoolgirl.

Question 27

Symptoms of love context

Answer 27

Robert Graves produced more than 140 works.
He earned his living from writing, particularly popular historical such as the Golden Fleece.
At the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Graves enlisted almost immediately.
At Somerville College, Graves met his first love, a nurse and professional pianist called Marjorie.
The friendship between Graves and Siegfried Sassoon is documented in Graves’s letters and biographies-was this a painful symptom of love?
Immediately after the war, Graves had a wife,Nancy Nicholson, and a growing family but was financially insecure and weakness physically and mentally.

Question 28

Before you were mine context

Answer 28

Born in Glasgow, Carol Ann Duffy was brought up in Staffordshire and studied philosophy at the university of Liverpool, where she was in the city’s underground poetry scene in the 1970’s.
Duffy’s poem ‘Before you were mine’ is a eulogy;a tribute to her mother after death.
In ‘Before you were mine’ Carol Ann Duffy identifies closely and lovingly her spirited mother, and describes briefly but perceptively the conflict between her mother and her grandmother.
‘Before you were mine is also a poem about a time and place;post-war culture in the 1950’s and the social life of teenage girls in Glasgow.

Question 29

Clearances 7 context

Answer 29

Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator.
He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
He became a lecturer at St. Joseph’s College in Belfast in the early 1960s, after attending Queen’s University and began to publish poetry.
He lived in Sandymount, Dublin, from 1976 until his death.
Heaney was born at the family farmhouse called Mossbawn,between Castledawson and Toomebridge; he was the first of nine children.

Question 30

I am very bothered context

Answer 30

Simon Robert Armitage (born 26 May 1963)is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019.
He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds.
Armitage was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire,and grew up in the village of Marsden, where his family still live.
He has lectured on creative writing at the University of Leeds and at the University of Iowa, and in 2008 was a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Question 31

How do I love thee language techniques

Answer 31

Conversational question, repetition, plural, Petrarchan, 14 lines, written by woman, comparative adjective, exclamation mark,superlative.

Question 32

Themes of how do I love thee?

Answer 32

Death,love,loss,eternity.

Question 33

How do I love thee context?

Answer 33

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States.

Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English.

Kenyon arranged for Browning to meet Elizabeth on 20 May 1845, in her rooms, and so began one of the most famous courtships in literature.

Elizabeth had produced a large amount of work, but Browning had a great influence on her subsequent writing