Poetry Flashcards
Name all 15 poems
Ozymandias, London, The Prelude, My Last Duchess, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Exposure, Storm on the Island, Bayonet Charge, Remains, Poppies, War Photographer, Tissue, The Emigree, Kamikaze, Checking Out My History
Name all the Themes
Power of Humans, Power of Nature, Effects of Conflict, Reality of Conflict, Loss and Absence, Memory, Negative Emotions- Anger, Negative Emotions- Guilt, Negative Emotions- Fear, Negative Emotion- Pride, Identity, Individual Experiences
Which poems go in Power of humans
Ozymandias, London, My Last Duchess, Storm on the island, Tissue, Checking out me history
Which poems go in Power of nature
Ozymandias, The Prelude, Exposure, Storm on the Island, Tissue, Kamikaze
Which poems go in Effects of conflict
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Exposure, Bayonet Charge, Remains, Poppies, War Photographer, Kamikaze
Which poems go in the Reality of Conflict
The Charge of the Light Brigade, Exposure, Bayonet Charge, Remains, War Photographer
Which poems go in Loss and Absence
London, Exposure, Poppies, The Emigree, Kamikaze
Which poems go in Memory
The Prelude, My Last Duchess, Remains, Poppies, War Photographer, The Emigree, Kamikaze
Which poems go in Negative Emotion- Anger
London, War Photographer, Checking out me history
Which poems go in Negative Emotion- Guilt
Remains, War Photographer
Which poems go in Negative Emotion- Fear
Prelude, Storm on the Island, Bayonet Charge, Poppies
Which poems go in Negative Emotion- Pride
Ozymandias, Prelude, My Last Duchess
Which Poems go in Identity
My Last Duchess, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Poppies, Tissue, The Emigree, Kamikaze, Checking out me History
Which poems go in Individual Experiences
London, Prelude, Bayonet Charge, Remains, Poppies, War Photographer, The Emigree, Kamikaze
What is the Context for Ozymandias?
Percy Bryce Shelley was a Romantic didn’t believe in government or monarchy. believed in power of nature. Ozymandias was Rameses II of ancienct Egypt
Give 5 key quotes for Ozymandias
"King of Kings" "Look on my works ye mighty and despair" "I met a traveller from an antique land" "Collosal Wreck" "The hand that mocked them" "Shattered Visage" "Sneer of cold command"
What is the context for London
Blake was a religious man who was enraged by social injustice in 18th century london. Was inspired by 1789 French Revolution wants end to malnutrition, poverty and 50% of babies dieing before 2
Give 4 key quotes for London
"I wander through each chartered street" "Marks of weakness marks of woes" "In every cry of every man" "Every blackening church appals" "Runs in blood down palace walls" "blights of plagues the marriage hearse"
Give the Structural features of Ozymandias
Petrarchan Sonnet form associated with love
Iambic Pentameter often disrupted
Volta “words appear:”
Give the Structural features of London
Dramatic monologue
ABAB rhyme scheme
1st and 2nd stanza focus on depravity, 3rd institutions, 4th baby
What is the context of the Prelude
Wordsworth was a romantic poet who explores connection between nature and humans. Shows how experience with nature changes and shapes the character
Give 4 key quotes from the Prelude
“troubled pleasure”
“The horizons bound a huge peak black and huge”
“Towered up between me and the stars”
“No pleasant images of trees of sea or sky”
“But huge mighty forms that don’t live like living men”
“Trouble to my dreams”
Give the structural features of Prelude
1st person with blank verse
Volta “The horizons upmost boundary far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky”
Iambic interspersed with trochee or anapest
split into 3 sections
What is the context of My Last Duchess
Based on the real life Duke Alfonso II of Ferrara whose wife died under suspicious circumstances. By Robert Browning
Give 5 key quotes from My Last Duchess
“That’s my last duchess painted on the wall”
“Looking if she were alive”
“since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you but I”
“Too easily impressed”
“My gift of a nine hundred year old name”
“I gave commands then all smiles stopped together”
“Notice Neptune though taming a sea horse thought a rarity”
Give the structural features of My Last Duchess
Dramatic monologue
Iambic pentameter
Rhyming couplets
Enjambment “spot of joy”
What is the context of Charge of the Light Brigade
Based on the real charge of the light brigade during battle of Balaclava 1854 during Crimean war. Lord Tennyson was poet laureate so was used to create support for war as public didnt like it
Give 4 key quotes from Charge of the Light Brigade
"Rode the six hundred" "Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them" "Jaws of death" "when can their glory fade" "horse and hero fell" "Honour the light brigade"
Give the structural features of Charge of the Light Brigade
Dactylic diameter shows courage wavering
What is the context of Exposure
By Wilfred Owen who fought in WWI wanted to raise awareness of war but wasn’t popular in UK
Give 4 quotes from Exposure
"Our brains ache" "merciless iced east winds that knive us" "But nothing happens" "What are we doing here" "For love of God seems dying" "All their eyes are ice"
Give structural features of Exposure
First person plural
Regular rhyme scheme ABBAC
Half rhyme
What is the context for Storm on the Island
By Seamus Heaney on a community preparing for a storm and relates to IRA. Stormont was the place peace treaty was signed
Give 4 quotes from Storm on the Island
"We are prepared" "Exploding comfortably" "Spits like a tame cat turned savage" "Strange it is a huge nothing that we fear" "Blast you know what I mean" "you can listen to the thing you fear"
Give structural features of Storm on the Island
Plosive sounds Fricture sounds Direct address Tragic Chorus Blank verse Volta "But no"
What is the context for Bayonet Charge
About a nameless soldier in WWI. Soldiers goes from a man to a weapon
Give 4 key quotes from Bayonet charge
“In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations”
“his terror touchy dynamite”
“King honour human dignity etcetera dropped like luxuries”
“Suddenly he awoke”
“Bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
“Yellow hare that rolled like a flame”
Give the structural features of Bayonet Charge
Enjambment “He was running like a man who jumped up in the dark and runs”
Caesura “Statuary in mid stride.then the”
Uneven line lengths
Irregular rhytmn
Pronoun “he”
Medias res
What is the context of Remains
Based on true stories of soldiers from Iraq and Gulf war. Focuses on graphic reality of war PTSD
Give 5 key quotes of Remains
"Probably armed possibly not" "Three of a kind all letting fly and I swear" "End of story except not really" "Sort of inside out" "Drink and drugs wont wash him out" "His bloody life in my bloody hands" "Dug in behind enemy lines"
Give the structural features for Remains
7 quatrains stanzas
1 partial finish
No real rhyme scheme
“We” and “I”
What is the context of Poppies
About mother’s perspective on son leaving to go to war
Give 4 key quotes for Poppies
"Individual war graves" "Blockade" "gelled blackthorns of your hair" "released a song bird from its cage" "my stomach busy making tucks darts pleats" "playground voice catching on the wind"
Give structural features from Poppies
1st person
No regular rhyme scheme
Enjambment “hoping to hear your”
Chronological
What is the context for War Photographer
based on Carol Ann Duffy friend who is a war photographer and is angry at public’s lack of long term care for his work
Give 5 key quotes from War Photographer
"Spools of suffering" "Priest preparing to intone mass" "Solutions slop" "fields which dont explode beneath the feet" "Half formed ghost" "hundred agonies in black and white" "they do not care"
Give the structural features of War Photographer
4 regular stanzas
stanza ends in rhyming couplet
ordered rhyme scheme ABB CDD
What is the context of Emigree
Carol Rumens on a girl forced to leave her home but refuses to forget it as it was
Give 4 key quotes of the Emigree
“There once was a country”
“It may now be a lie banned by the state”
“It tastes of sunlight”
“It may be at war it may be sick with tyrants”
“They mutter death and my shadow falls”
“My city”
Give the structural features for The Emigree
1st person
Enjambment “carried here like a hollow”
free verse
Caesura “hides behind me. mutter”
What is the context for Kamikaze
Story of a kamikaze pilot from WWII that doesn’t complete mission turns round and becomes outcast
Give 5 key quotes for Kamikaze
“full of powerful incantations”
“he must have looked far down”
“green blue translucent sea”
“like a huge flag waved first one way”
“He must have wondered which had been the better way to die”
“they treated him as thought he no longer existed”
“a tune the dark prince muscular dangerous”
Give the structural features of Kamikaze
3rd person
What is the context of Tissue
Looks at how paper controls the world, history, culture. Strongly influenced by Imtiaz Dharker multicultural heritage
Give 5 key quotes from Tissue
“Paper that lets the light shine through”
“Maps too. The sun shines through their borderlines”
“Fly our lives like paper kites”
“turned into the skin”
“structure never meant to last”
“Pages smoothed and stroked and turned”
“layer over layer”
Give the structural features of Tissue
Caesura “Maps too. the sun”
No specific person or rhyme
Enjambment “structure never meant to last”
