Poetry Flashcards
What is the summary of The captain of the 1964 top of the forms quiz?
It is a dramatic monologue from the perspective of a middle aged man who is disappointed with his current life and reminisces about his more successful school years
What is the summary of Litany?
A poem in which the poet remembers how, as a child, she shocked her mother’s friends by saying a swear word
What is the summary of Before you were mine?
The poet looks at photographs of her mother as a young woman and tries to imagine what her life must have been like before she became a mother
What is the summary of Beachcomber?
The speaker suffers with amnesia and it trying to remember a day she spent at the beach as a child
What is the summary of First Love?
A lyric poem in which memories of a past lover are triggered by a dream
What is the summary of Valentine?
A lyric poem in which the persona uses the onion as a symbol of the pain of love as well as a metaphor for her undying loyalty
What is the summary of The Cliché Kid?
A dramatic monologue in which a person appears to be telling their psychoanalyst about traumatic past experiences which have shaped their life
What is the summary of Small Female Skull?
A lyric poem in which the persona contemplates her morality
What is the summary of Never Go Back?
A lyric poem in which the persona returns to a place where she used to live and reflects on how much she and it have changed
What is the summary of Close?
A lyric poem about the emotions involved in the breakdown of a romantic relationship
What is the summary of Mean Time?
A lyric poem in which the speaker expresses her regrets about the end of a relationship
