Poetry 🎤 Flashcards
Charge of the light brigade
• someone had blunder’d- MUST AVOID criticising officers and must be patriotic to remain poet laureate so picks on glory (suck up to queen v). Agrees with times ‘c’est n’est pas la guerre’
RHYME SCHEME SUGGESTS OTHERWISE, as blundered imperfect rhyme with hundred= exploit the word and subtly bring to attention that it was an unjust rescision. Rhyme scheme also random to reflect the random decision, with no rhyming couplets to show that their meeting with death IS NOT A JUST ENDING
• valley of death- psalm 23. MUST NOT FEAR DEATH as God with you. Justifying death as will go to heaven. Shown further through ‘do and die’- although death is inevitable, patriotism is more important. MUST APPEAR PATRIOTIC
• anaphora with sound and use of senses to show inescapable cannons and inevitable death
• while the whole world wondered= could be patriotic, DUAL MEANING of why tf would they do it
• dactyls (3 syllables, first one stressed) = cheerful song like tone juxt mass slaughter. We condemn
• WHEN TENNYSON READS IT HE STRESSES ‘KNEW’ despite dactyls to emphasise that war was wrong
Tissue
• fragility of supposed identity- paper has power as it is honest and factual. The transparency gives it this power. If humans could embrace vulnerability, they too could be powerful.
• free verse and unrhymed quatrains= lack of human power. We would be less restricted if accepted fragility of life. ABRUPT ENDING
• USED TO QUESTION contrasting belief about life. Grand design= Gods omnibenevolence OR Steven hawking grand design book that science explained universe. God is false hope, a way for humans to empower themselves
• maps= could be map of life= skin and veins OR idea of idealism and restriction through maps. ‘Light shines through’ nature has no regard for us.
• fall away in a sigh= fragility of materialism. mountainfolds= we must break down these ideas, and be an architect
• paper becomes a metaphor for poetry and ideas- reflected through light. Alter things- alter our perception of culture (Muslim!)
• a hand= generalist terminology
• Gods grand design isn’t war (not allah or God, just a god)
• we can become transparent
Kamikaze
• samurai= stoic warrior JUXT to the true powerlessness. Latin= ‘put a spell on’
• sun alludes to patriotism with the 🇯🇵
• incantations= prayer/ BRAINWASH PROPAGANDA, highly critical
• silver fish= money but also tretchary, religious allusion to judas= PILOT BETRAYED BY EMPAROR by throwing away young lives
• pearl gray pebbles. Life worth pearl thrown away like pebble (subconscious disapproval)
• peaceful sybalance used on voilent words to unsettle us
• fricitives and plosives= anger perhaps at suicide
• he wondered which had been the better way to die= seppuku. Irony as they don’t know. Perhaps she is wondering and remorseful
London
• charter’d Thames= physical and mental confinement of residents and oppression
• flow= uncontrollable injustice EFFECTS ALL. Personification= infectious
• anti religion protest. Runs in blood down palace walls= government corruption, government holds power over people OR they are too afraid to subvert from conformity.
• ‘marks’= metaphorical weakness and social injustice is everyone’s problem OR criticising bible OR are they really there or is it a him thing
• oxymoron of marriage and death= intertwined
• 4 even stanzas with child like rhythm= control, waking pace, chant of corruption
• rhymes parallels between people and a rhythmic sense of boredom in life
