Poems Of The Decade Flashcards
What inspired ‘Look We Have Coming To Dover!’
His interest in the English language as a migrant language and how it is constantly changing
How is Language used in ‘Look We Have Coming to Dover!’
Creating verbs from nouns shows the language barrier and also uses colloquial language.
What is the form of ‘Look We Have Coming To Dover!’?
Quintets
What form is ‘Genetics’?
A Villanelle
(5 tercets with two lines alternating as a refrain and forming a final couplet)
What is the half-rhyme in ‘Genetics’?
Palms/hands
What is the poem ‘Genetics’ about?
A child exploring how her divorced parents live on through her hands. It’s ultimately becomes a love poem, exploring the themes of religion and law.
What structure is ‘The Furthest Distance I’ve Travelled’?
Quatrains and rhyming couplets.
Why does the line length change in ‘The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled’?
To show the move from youthful restlessness to adult contentment
How does the narrator change in ‘A Minor Role’
Possibly a relative of an ill person? She begins feeling very tired and exhausted, as if she is constantly playing a role in her own life. Towards the end, she leaves with a defiant and hopeful message that it would not be better to die. Quotes Oedipus Rex.
What does the staircase represent in ‘An Easy Passage’
It represent a potentially dangerous drop into the darkness of adulthood. Perhaps not all that bad, as the secretary is described as red-faced, contrasting with the gray of the building, suggesting that people do not change, but the working world dulls them.
Structure of ‘History?’
A Lyric poem of only three sentences. Becomes more regular when being reflective, using iambic pentameter.
What does ‘History’ explore?
The title is general, whereas the date is specific, and the word ‘today’ contrasts with the title showing the impact of big events all the time?.
It asks how to feel ok in a world full of a vast, impersonal and destructive history. Incorporates religion when he kneels.
Structure of Eat Me?
Dramatic Monologue (AAA rhyming structure in tercets)
Significance of the title in Eat Me?
Alice in Wonderland biscuit, dramatically changing size
Structure of Chainsaw vs the Pampas Grass?
Free verse
Structure of Material?
Octaves (ABCBDEFE rhyme scheme) the regular form echoes older, more traditional poetry.
Structure of An Easy Passage?
One long stanza, complete syntax
Structure of The Deliverer?
Tercets, cyclical structure, mimics a newspaper or television report
Structure of The Lammas Hireling?
dramatic monologue, sestets
Structure of To My Nine Year Old Self
An Ode
Structure of The Gun
Free Verse (six stanzas of different lengths)
Structure of Giuseppe?
Free verse, six irregular stanzas and a framed narrative
Structure of Out of the Bag
Other than the first stanza, it’s in tercets (unrhymed pentameter) and has a cyclical structure, it is a dramatic monologue written in free verse. It is autobiographical.
Structure of Effects?
A stream of consciousness, only two sentences and ABBA.
Structure of From the Journal of a Disappointed Man?
Quatrains, structure associated with the past, old poetry.
Structure of Please Hold?
Includes heteroglossia and is a satirical poem.
Structure of On Her Blindness?
Primarily unrhymed couplets, white space may represent blindness
Structure of Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
An Ode, ten-line stanzas, mainly iambic pentameter
