Poems And Plays With Their Authors Flashcards
Sonnet 43
How do I love thee by Elizabeth Barrett browning. Compared with Shakespeare’s this poem is the idealized love
Persephone falling
Rita dove. About Persephone and hades dragging her Down to the underworld.
Has the go straight to school section in it like a mother telling her what to do
School for scandal
Richard Sheridan.
Has characters like lacy teazle, Joseph surface and lady sneer well
Porphyrias lover
Robert browning
About a man who worshipped a women and then strangles her with her own hair. Convinced himself that she worshipped him and that God is okay with it because he hasn’t said anything
My last duchess
Robert browning
Discusses the many wives he’s had and how he thinks of them as objects to be had
The other side of a mirror
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare
Describing a lover using unflattering analogies and making it seem not so pleasant
Dulce et decorum est
Wilfred Owen
War poem describing the brutality of war
The old lie how seer and fitting it is to die for ones country
The charge of the light brigade
Alfred lord Tennyson
During the Crimean war
Repeats rode the six hundred, describes them as noble
195 men were only on their horses at the end
It could be you
Simon armitage
Describes the war like the lottery, becoming day to day. Has the lottery numbers be years of war
In Westminster abbey
John betjeman About a wealthy women in the church praying for simple thing like class distinction and her shares. She is racist and naive about the British empire. All focuses around her. Ends with we saying she has a luncheon date
Because I could not stop for death
Emily Dickinson
Actively passing through phases of life, then turns dark saying the speaker has been dead for some time
Not waving but drowning
Stevie smith
About depression
And drowning by being ignored when you need help
Barbie doll
Marge piercy
About women never being good enough
In my country
Jackie Kay
