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Poetry Anthology Flashcards

1
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What are the main themes of ‘If’?

A

Stoicism
Masculinity
Patriotism

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What is the tone of If?

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Positive
Motivational
Inspirational
Paternal advice

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What is the form of If?

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Dramatic monologue - ABABCDCD and Iambic pentameter

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4
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What are the main themes of Prayer Before Birth?

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Depression
Hopelessness
Innocence

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What is the tone of Prayer Before Birth?

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Plea for help
Negative
Fearful

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6
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What is the form of Prayer Before Birth?

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Dramatic monologue - free verse

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7
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What is the form of Blessing?

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Irregular free verse

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What is the tone of Blessing?

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Excitement
Joy
Undercut with the struggles of poverty

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9
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What are the themes of Blessing?

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Beauty of water/simplicity
Poverty
Drought

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10
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What is the form of Search for my tongue?

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Dramatic monologue - free verse

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What is the tone of search for my tongue?

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Confrontational
Bitter
Agressive

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12
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What are the themes of search for my tongue?

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Identity

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13
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What is the form of Half past two?

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11 tercet free verse

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14
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What is the tone of half past two?

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Positive
Juvenille

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15
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What are the themes of half past two?

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Innocence of a child’s mind
Rigidity of time

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What are the themes of Piano?

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Memory
Nostalgia
Control
Masculinity

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17
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What is the form of Piano?

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Lyric poem

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18
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What is the tone of Piano?

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Positive and negative - antithesis of two shows the complexity/pain of nostalgia

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What is the tone of Hide and Seek?

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Negative
Dark
Alone

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20
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What is the form of Hide and Seek?

21
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What are the themes of Hide and Seek?

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Loss of innocence
Imagination of a child

22
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What are the themes of Sonnet 116?

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Love - what is true love?
Confusion of true love

23
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What is the form of Sonnet 116?

A

Shakespearean Sonnet

24
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What is the tone of Sonnet 116?

A

Conversational

25
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What is the tone of La Bella Dame sans Merci?

A

Inquisitive at first
Then it becomes happy and reverential
Finally it becomes sad

26
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What is the form of La Bella Dame sans Merci?

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Ballad - iambic tetrameter and last line of each stanza is iambic trimeter

27
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What are the themes of La Bella Dame sans Merci?

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Unrequited love
Sex
Merciless women

28
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What is the form of Poem at Thirty Nine?

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Free verse lyric poem

29
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What is the tone of Poem at Thirty Nine?

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Conversational

30
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What are the themes of Poem at Thirty Nine?

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Memory
Nostalgia
Love (paternal)
Grief

31
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What is the form of War photographer?

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4 regular sestets

32
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What is the tone of War photographer?

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matter - of - fact
distanced

33
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What are the themes of War photographer?

A

Guilt
Anger
Suffering
War

34
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What is the form of The Tyger?

A

6 quatrains in rhyming couplets

35
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What is the tone of The Tyger?

A

Desperate
Powerful

36
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What are the themes of The Tyger?

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What is the nature of God?
If God is benevolent, how can he create evil?

37
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What is the form of My Last Duchess?

A

Dramatic Monologue - iambic pentameter

38
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What is the tone of My Last Duchess?

A

Conversational

39
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What are the themes of My Last Duchess?

A

Power
Control
Psychopathic villain

40
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What is the form of Half caste?

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Dramatic monologue - free verse

41
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What is the tone of Half caste?

A

Confrontational
Bitter
Angry

42
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What are the themes of Half caste?

A

Identity (struggle of identity for a mixed race person)

43
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What is the form of Do not go gentle into that good night?

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Villanelle - 5 tercets+1 quatrain (only 2 rhymes 2 refrains). -obsession

44
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What is the tone of Do not go gentle into that good night?

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Desperate
Conversational
Pleading

45
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What are the themes of Do not go gentle into that good night?

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Obsessional fear to resist death

46
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What is the form of Remember?

A

Petrachan sonnet - octave and sestet

47
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What is the tone of Remember?

A

Sentimental
Nostalgic
Mawkish
Consoling
Generous

48
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What are the themes of Remember?

A

Memory
Guilt
Death
Religion

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