Poems Recap Flashcards

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Eat Me?

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A feeder relationship, ending is ambiguous, does she eat her partner?

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Chainsaw vs The Pampas Grass

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The power struggle between a chainsaw and the pampas grass, talks about masculinity etc.

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Material

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A mother exploring her role and the role of her own mother through handkerchiefs and their replacement with tissues.

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History

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Explores childhood and 9/11

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An Easy Passage

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About the transition from childhood to adulthood.

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The Deliverer

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About babies who are abandoned because they are not wanted in Kerala, the second most impoverished state in India.

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The Lammas Hireling

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About Irish folklore, following the story of a farmer who meets and eventually murders a shapeshifting rabbit.

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To My Nine Year Old Self

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An ode to childhood innocence and carelessness

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A Minor Role

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Follows someone with an illness playing a minor role in their own life.

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The Gun

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About a woman whose husband takes up shooting and how it alters their relationship.

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The Furthest Distance I’ve Travelled.

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About a woman working in a post office who lives through letters people send and things people she knows have left behind.

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Giuseppe

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About a town in Sicily in World War 2 who butchered a mermaid because of starvation.

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Out of the Bag

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About childbirth.

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Genetics

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About a woman remembering her parents marriage and divorce

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Look We Have Coming to Dover!

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About immigrants moving to Dover and finding a balance between cultures.

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Please Hold

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About a man on the phone and the dreary future of the world

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On Her Blindness

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A man whose mother is blind.

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Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn

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About the themes Grayson Perry includes in his work.

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From the Journal of a Dissapointed Man

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About this guy who is really judgemental towards these builders.

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Some Ladies Dressed in Muslin Full and White

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About Christina’s dislike for pretty much everyone.

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Remember

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About asking a loved one to think of her in death

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The World

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About the reality of society, conveyed through a beautiful woman, a monster by night.

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Echo

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About grieving someone

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May

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Personal, about a story we don’t know, possibly a loss

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A Birthday

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About being in love

26
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An Apple-Gathering

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About a girl who lost her love and is now watching him with another girl

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Maude Clare

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A woman who loved the groom shows up at his wedding to warn his wife.

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At Home

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About a ghost walking through their house watching their friends keep living, having been forgotten.

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Up-Hill

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Hopeful, about Christianity and heaven

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Goblin Market

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About a girl doomed by sin when she eats Goblin fruit

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What Would I Give?

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About dealing with sin and grief

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Twice

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About someone leaving her, but then falling in love with God.

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Memory

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About loss and one day being remembered again.

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A Christmas Carol

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About the nativity and being grateful to Jesus

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Passing and Glassing

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About women and time and how very wise we are

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Piteous my Rhyme is

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Sad at first but ends with a hopeful take on love

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A Helpmeet for Him

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A satirical poem about women existing for men

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As Froth on the Face of the Deep

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Maybe about judgement day

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Babylon the Great

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About a sinful woman

40
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Our Mothers, lovely women pitiful

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About women supporting eachother