Poetry Flashcards
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Absence quotes (5)
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- ‘we last met’
- ‘nothing was changed’
- ‘no sign that anything has ended’
- ‘thoughtless birds’
- ‘nothing to instruct me to forget’
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Absence context (5)
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- Elizabeth Jennings
- Was a librarian before becoming a publisher and review poetry
- The movement - rejected the overly poetries and formal poetry
- Intensely personal
- Mental health issues
3
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Nothing’s changed themes (4)
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- Culture
- Time
- Social problems
- Nature
4
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Nothing’s changed quotes (7)
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- ‘working man’s cafe’
- ‘take it with you, eat, it is a plastic table’s top’
- ‘No sign says it is: but we know where we belong’
- ‘Grass and weeds’
- ‘and my hands’
- ‘and the skin about my bones’
- ‘and the soft labouring of my lungs’
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Nothing’s changed context (2)
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- It is about Afrika (author) returning to district six at the end of Apartheid. It was an area that used to be flourishing and now is just a mess. It describes the poet’s anger about what has happened in the area.
- Criticises racism and authority figures.
6
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London context (5)
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- William Blake
- Abuse of power
- French Revolution
- Dirty city oppose to nature
- Industrialisation
7
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London themes (3)
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- Society - undone damage
- Repetitive life
- Industrialisation
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London quotes (9)
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- ‘mark in every face I met’
- ‘marks of weakness, marks of woe’
- ‘in every cry of every men’
- ‘in every infants cry of fear’
- ‘in every voice’
- ‘chimney-sweepers’
- ‘blackning’
- ‘youthful’
- ‘new-born infants tear’
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First flight context (5)
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- Author - U.A. Fanthorpe
- Worked in phyc word
- Loved watching people
- 2 fliers - experienced and not
- Too much industrialisation
10
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Stewart island context (4)
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- Author - Fleur Adcock
- Lived in New Zealand until was 5
- Moved to UK
- Attempted to come back for university - did not like it
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Adlestrop context (6)
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- author: Edward Thomas
- real - life train journey that happened 6 weeks before the war
- written after the war
- train was not expected to stop there
- author wrote novels/books
- found inspiration in war
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Westminster bridge context (7 + romantic poetry)
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- author: William Wordsworth’s
- autobiography
- journey with sister
- London during sunrise
- accessible to common people
- not used to seeing big cities
- romantic poet => loves nature; highly religious but fearing; against industrialisation
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Home thoughts from abroad context (6)
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- author: Robert Browning
- did not live in England
- loved Italy and Italian culture
- wife was really ill (sun and warm temperatures in Italy helped)
- not able to move back to UK because of that
- romantic poet
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Where the picnic was context (4)
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- author: Thomas Hardy
- part of collection written as a response the the death of his wife, Emma Gifford in November 1912
- Hardy neglected Emma in their life together, and wrote these poems in order to make amends
- Hardy wrote the poem about a real picnic that took place in the summer of 1912 along with his wife and 2 other poets
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Hurricane hits England context (6)
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- author: Grace Nichols
- the cyclone storm of 15–16 October 1987, which caused devastation across the south of England, inspired the poem.
- born in Georgetown
- moved to England in 1977
- hurricanes are common in her native country
- 22 people died/15 million trees were lost
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To autumn context (4)
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- author: John Keats
- was inspired by his daily walks in and around Winchester
- sense of loss -> reflects the poet’s serene and mature acceptance of his own mortality
- serves as the last of Keats’ six famous “1819 odes” as well as his last major composition before his death one year later
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In Romney march context (4)
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- author: John Davidson
- Scottish poet and novelist
- natural landscape place famous for sheep
- a sparsely populated area of wetland of Kent and East Sussex in England, prone to flooding
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I started early context (8)
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- author: Emily Dickinson
- no one knew she was a poet
- was ill all her childhood
- never visited ocean
- did not have a mother figure growing up
- became a recluse from age of 30
- died at 56 of kidney disease
- sister found her poetry
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Postcard from a travel snob context (7)
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- author: Sophie Hannah
- born in 1971 and poem written in 1996
- in 1990s, more people could afford to go on weeks away
- class divide
- rich people went on gap years
- looked down on people who went backpacking
- narrator is one of the rich snooty people who look down on the people who go on package holidays and we are not supposed to like the narrator.
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Presents from my aunts in Pakistan context (6)
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- author: Moniza Alvi
- teenage girl who caught between cultures, having a father from Pakistan and an English mother
- exploration of cultural identity
- gifts she receives, vividly coloured traditional Pakistani clothes, bangles and shoes, both delight and confuse her
- autobiography
- main theme: identity
