Poems Recap Flashcards
Eat Me?
A feeder relationship, ending is ambiguous, does she eat her partner?
Chainsaw vs The Pampas Grass
The power struggle between a chainsaw and the pampas grass, talks about masculinity etc.
Material
A mother exploring her role and the role of her own mother through handkerchiefs and their replacement with tissues.
History
Explores childhood and 9/11
An Easy Passage
About the transition from childhood to adulthood.
The Deliverer
About babies who are abandoned because they are not wanted in Kerala, the second most impoverished state in India.
The Lammas Hireling
About Irish folklore, following the story of a farmer who meets and eventually murders a shapeshifting rabbit.
To My Nine Year Old Self
An ode to childhood innocence and carelessness
A Minor Role
Follows someone with an illness playing a minor role in their own life.
The Gun
About a woman whose husband takes up shooting and how it alters their relationship.
The Furthest Distance I’ve Travelled.
About a woman working in a post office who lives through letters people send and things people she knows have left behind.
Giuseppe
About a town in Sicily in World War 2 who butchered a mermaid because of starvation.
Out of the Bag
About childbirth.
Genetics
About a woman remembering her parents marriage and divorce
Look We Have Coming to Dover!
About immigrants moving to Dover and finding a balance between cultures.
Please Hold
About a man on the phone and the dreary future of the world
On Her Blindness
A man whose mother is blind.
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn
About the themes Grayson Perry includes in his work.
From the Journal of a Dissapointed Man
About this guy who is really judgemental towards these builders.
Some Ladies Dressed in Muslin Full and White
About Christina’s dislike for pretty much everyone.
Remember
About asking a loved one to think of her in death
The World
About the reality of society, conveyed through a beautiful woman, a monster by night.
Echo
About grieving someone
May
Personal, about a story we don’t know, possibly a loss
A Birthday
About being in love
An Apple-Gathering
About a girl who lost her love and is now watching him with another girl
Maude Clare
A woman who loved the groom shows up at his wedding to warn his wife.
At Home
About a ghost walking through their house watching their friends keep living, having been forgotten.
Up-Hill
Hopeful, about Christianity and heaven
Goblin Market
About a girl doomed by sin when she eats Goblin fruit
What Would I Give?
About dealing with sin and grief
Twice
About someone leaving her, but then falling in love with God.
Memory
About loss and one day being remembered again.
A Christmas Carol
About the nativity and being grateful to Jesus
Passing and Glassing
About women and time and how very wise we are
Piteous my Rhyme is
Sad at first but ends with a hopeful take on love
A Helpmeet for Him
A satirical poem about women existing for men
As Froth on the Face of the Deep
Maybe about judgement day
Babylon the Great
About a sinful woman
Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful
About women supporting eachother
