Poems Flashcards
Love that doth reign and live within my thought
Unrequited love
Petrarchan sonnet (eight line octave and sestet)
Iambic pentameter
First +3rd person
Semantic field of love and war
Extended nata photo throughout is personification of love as knight or warrior,
Imagery of courtly love
Sonnet Cxxx
Love conquers all His emotion is based on what she looks like, sounds like, feels like. Cesuras Alliteration Dysphemism Gap to show last two lines are different ABABCDCD Shakespearean sonnet Iambic pentameter
Batter my heart
Ants God to assault his heart
Admits he loves God and wants to be loved but is tied down by Gods enemy
He can’t be free unless God enslaves +excites him
Can’t refrain from sex unless God carries him away and delights him (rapes him)
Petrarchan sonnet - iambic pentameter
A satirical elegy on the death of a late famous general
Different opinions of the duke he was a 'mighty warrior' but all the people hated him Iambic- Sort of cheery rhythm Sarcastic tone and upbeat Enjambement Lots of rhetorical questions Archaic Lang Exclamation marks adds sarcasm Elegy usually sing and for the dead
I wandered lonely as a cloud
It’s about simple pleasures
Romanticism
Match between form and structure -sounds like skipping
Rhyme scheme creates harmony between man and nature
Semantic field of nature
Iambic tetrameter
Imagery is bucolic (countryside)
Metaphysical
Beauty is seen but is also just a daffodil
Kubla Khan
Reciting theme is the power of dreams and imagination
Opium influenced
Fantasy poem
He’s trying to describe things that only exist in his head
Lose iambic tetrameter
Depiction of dangerous aspects of nature
Relentless scenic imagery
Creates a feeling of the unknown
About the off spring of genis (Mongal empire)
Different voices of kinks Khan
She walks in beauty
Just about some fitty he saw
Semantic field of innocence
Iambic tetrameter
Shows contrast between his mind and heart
Contrasts between light and dark - she is the best of both
Animalistic imagery
Balancing physical qualities with personal attributes (mental qualities)
Ozymandias
About the overthrow of dictatorship, particularly the destruction of the statue of a cruel impressive leader Declarative mood to set scene Iambic pentameter Encampment Cesura sets an ominous note Romantic poet
First love
He fell for a landowners daughter Mary Joyce
Unhappily married -went mad and one of his delusions was that he married Mary
Semantic field of sight
Personal pronoun creates confessional tone
Lexis like suddenly show how quick an unexpected he fell for her
Clay can be moulded into new things
Metaphors suggests love is like fire
He was forever changed by meeting her
Iambic tetrameter
Break break break
Poem is someone who comes to terms with greif
He lost a dear friend
Abac
Joy and pain
Simple language yet meaning full
Final stanza echoes first one perhaps saying nothing much has changed for him
Biblical
Breaking of his heart is break of the wave
Spell bound
She can't stop the spell Poem of questions Gothic Iambic pattern 7,6 Storm is pathetic fallacy
There is no God the wicked saith
Poem states religious faith is something they adapt simply because of its convenience
Made him unpopular - wanted to be a vicar but suffered a crisis of faith
Nursery child like quality
First 5 stanza proposition of why we don’t need God anymore
Change of tone indicated by use of connective but
Declarative tone
Lyrical poem
Natures questioning
Nature is questioning the meaning of it Personified as a child Moving into modernist age No metre Abba Metaphysical Nature is always questioning yet silent Written not long after the theory of evolution
Gods grandeur
1st stanza - we are destroying nature 2nd- nature will fight back Religious imagery Modern ideas in old Petrarchan form QUatrains 2nd quatrain - we've lost ability to enjoy nature 3rd- nature continues to be beautiful even if it's not always seen Enjambement Interrogative mood Repetition Onomatopoeia of footsteps Holy Ghost will always protect us (presented as bird) Volta
