Poetry Flashcards
1
Q
What are your three thesis points for Funeral Blues?
What is the form?
A
- Use of imperatives, giving instructions
- Motif of time
- Form used to complement melancholy tone.
- An elegy, no specific rules, written after a death
2
Q
What are your three thesis points for Lullaby?
What is the form?
A
- Key theme of passing of time
- Ideas about human imperfection
- Lyric form gives a soft and gentle tone to mimic a lullaby.
- Lyric, open form: expression of personal emotions, 1st person.
3
Q
What are your three thesis points for In Time of War?
What is the form?
A
- Petrarchan sonnet form used to convey criticism of war.
> Change in subject (reality of battle to wider 1930s concerns) signalled by volta (9) octave - sestet - Message of the capability of everyone to make war.
- Satirical tone.
- Petrarchian Sonnets 14 lines.
4
Q
What are your three thesis points for Refugee Blues?
What is the form?
A
- Blues form to convey themes of suffering/complaint
- Theme of personal freedom explored through contrast to the freedom of others, pets, nature.
- Theme of discrimination.
- Blues form, three line stanza.
5
Q
What are your three thesis points for One more S in the USA?
What is the form?
A
- Conversational tone.
- Revolutionary themes
- Equality themes
- Free verse
6
Q
What was the blues?
A
- An expression of the African American experience of hardship, slavery, and exploitation. The blues symbolizes feelings of sadness and melancholy.
7
Q
What is the main message of Refugee Blues?
A
Auden presents us with the plight of the refugees and tries to evoke empathy from the reader. He also shows the depth of cruelty humans have the capacity for.
8
Q
Main message of funeral blues?
A
Expression of sadness of losing a loved one - feelings of grief and total loss, at the end, saying that they feel as if the world has been destroyed.
