poetry Flashcards
If
Didatic
Consonance (kings) makes author sound assured
Iambic pentameter - well balanced / controlled as stays same
Imperatives
Dramatic monologue
Prayer Before Birth
Asyndeton (omission of conjunctions between sentences) creates overwhelming negative feeling
Parallelism creates prayer like rhythm
8 stanzas of varying length - creates sense of unease/urgency
Blessing
Religious imagery
Fortune
Asyndetic listing - chaos
Monosyllables show dehydration
Onomatopoeia engages senses
Search For My Tongue
Volta
Gujurati embedded
Death vs Growth
Half - past Two
Regular form shows relentless passage of time
Compound words
Humour
“Into the’ hypnotic
Piano
Gentle, comforting (sibilance)
Plosives mirror emotions
Enjambment - flood of memories
Three quatrains - rhyming couplets
Lyric poem - constant pace mimics song
Hide and Seek
Assonance shows struggle
One long stanza - emphasises length of game
Negative diction - tension
Imperatives - expertise, ethos
Sonnet 116
Rigid structure shows constancy of love
Polyptoton
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Rose = Life
Lily = Death
Mystical imagery
Pathetic fallacy
Each quatrain has shorter final line - creates uncertainty
Ballad
War Photographer
10 - 11 parallelism emphasises contrast
Plosives mirror bullets
Apathy
The Tyger
Changing to ‘dare’
Icarus shows dangers of ambitions
Trochaic tetrameter - mirrors rhythm of blacksmith
Connotations to Hephaestus
Weapons of war = mankind
Half - Caste
Confronts reader
English mixed w caribbean dialect
Humour
No full stop - not end of story
DNGGITGN
‘sang the sun’ sibilance shows life is fleeting
Plosives
villanelle
Remember
Volta
Structure changes from strict to less strict to show change in thought
Desperation
Full stop = finality of her decision
