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Poetry Flashcards

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London quotes

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“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“Mind-forg’d manacles I hear”
“Hapless soldiers sigh runs in blood down palace walls”

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London context

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Poem speaks about injustice and negative effects of industrial revolution
Lived in London so understood suffering

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London tone

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Bitter

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London techniques

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Hyperbole, repetition, negative semantic field

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Composed upon Westminster bridge quotes

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“The city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning”
“Mighty heart is lying still!”
“Never did the sun more beautify steep”
“The river glide through at his own sweet will”

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Composed upon Westminster bridge context

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Born in the Lake District
Admires nature
Close to the romantic movement

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Composed upon Westminster bridge tone and form

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Awe and wonder
Sonnet

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Composed upon Westminster bridge techniques

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Hyperbole
Personification
Listing

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In Romney marsh context

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A marsh is like a foggy swamp
Water is significant
Small population in Romney

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In Romney marsh tone and form

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Appreciation
Ballad

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Hurricane Hits England quotes

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“It took a hurricane to bring her closer to the landscape”
“O why is my heart unchained?”
“That the Earth is the Earth is the Earth”

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Hurricane hits England context

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There was a great storm in 1987
She was born in South America, Guyana where many natural disasters occurred, mainly hurricanes.

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Hurricane hits England tone

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Reminiscing

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Hurricane hits England techniques

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Personification
Rhetorical questions
Simile/metaphore

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Adlestrop quotes

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“Yes. I remember Adlestrop”
“All the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire”
“Willows, willow-herb, and grass”

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Adlestrop Tone and form

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Tranquil
Ballad

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Adlestrop context

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Autobiographical memory poem
Based on memory from train station in Adlestrop
Adlestrop is quiet, small and sparse area

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Adlestrop techniques

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Imagery
Sensory language
Enjambement

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Home thoughts from abroad context

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Homesick because he moved to Italy to help his wife since she was ill and they thought that the weather there would help her health
Fond of Romantics
Speaks of stage of seasons

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Home thoughts for Abroad tone and form

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Nostalgic tone and lyric poem

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To Autumn quotes

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“Thy hair soft lifted”
“Plump the hazel shells”
“Drows’d with the fume of poppies”

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To Autumn context

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Writer has an illness (about to die)
Autumn is a transitional period

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To Autumn tone and form

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Calm and joyful tone and in an ODE (praise)

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To autumn techniques

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Personification
Sensory language
Rhetorical questions

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Presents from my aunts in Pakistan quotes

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“I longed for the denim and corduroy”
“Tried to glimpse myself in the miniature glass circles”
“No fixed nationality, staring through fretwork”

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Presents from my aunts in Pakistan context

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Half Pakistani / half English.
The poet is unable to embrace and caught between her two cultures.

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Presents from my aunts in Pakistan tone and form

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Conflicted tone / unset shape

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Presents from my aunts in Pakistan techniques

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Metaphors
Colour imagery
Unset shape

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Absence tone and form

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Conflicted tone / lyric poem

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Absence context

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Revisiting a significant place where she used to go with loved one
Her poetry is known for strong emotions and clarity

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Nothings changed quotes

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“Cuffs, cans, trodden on”
“Plastic table top, wipe your fingers on your jeans”
“District Six.”

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Nothings Changed context

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Speaker changed his name to embrace his culture
Writer had the choice to identify as white in racist times but chose mixed

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Nothings Changed tone and form

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Contrasting tone / autobiography

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Nothings Changed techniques

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Personification
Jeuxdaposition
Change in tone

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Where the picnic was context

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Revisiting where he used to go with his wife
His wife died unexpectedly

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Where the picnic was tone

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Grief tone

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I started early context

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Poet didn’t always follow writing rules
Romantic relationships are important

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I started early tone and form

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Mystical tone
Ballad form

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First flight context

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Poet enjoyed studying people
Worked in a psychiatric hospital
Two different voices

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Stewart Island context

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Set on a island ran on tourism
Constantly complaining about a holiday when it’s meant to be positive

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Stewart island quotes

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“But look at all this beauty” - hotel managers wife
“White sand” - positive factors
“It was too cold to swim”
“I had already decided to leave the country”

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Postcard from a travel snob context

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Poet writes comedic poems
A snob is an arrogant person

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Postcard from travel snob tone and form

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Critical tone
Dramatic monologue

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