Poetry Anthology Flashcards
1
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Living Space
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Imtiaz Dharker
- Written about the Mumbai slums
- Scottish Pakistani Muslim writer
- 1st stanza negative outsiders view vs 2nd +3rd positive and hopeful aligned with someone living theirs point of view
2
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As Imperceptibly as Grief
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Emily Dickinson
- Strong themes of death and immortality in her poems
- An American poet in the 1800s
- Semantic field of time as the poem is about reflecting on the passing of time which is not always noticed
3
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Death of a Naturalist
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Seamus Heaney
- Irish poet who loves the natural world
- Poem is about how he loses his love of nature as he grows up
- He sees all the things he used to fund beautiful instead as disgusting
4
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Hawk Roosting
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Ted Hughes
- English poet in the 1900s
- Anthropomorphism: the bird is a metaphor for Hughes or human eyes
- A direct poem that portrays the hawk and characteristics of it
5
Q
To Autumn
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John Keats
- An English romantic poet
- A poem about nurture though the seasons, winter is not included as it is a break for nature
- Lots of bountiful adjectives
6
Q
Afternoons
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Philip Larkin
- A great 20th century poet with his profound bleakness in his poetry
- Poem represents a melancholic portrait of families at a playground, focused on mothers who grew up to fast
- Part of the Whitsun Wedding collection
7
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The Prelude
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William Wordsworth
- Written In blank verse with iambic pentameter and in first person
- Reflects on his time as a child
- Talks of his love for nature and the duality of nature: danger vs beauty
8
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A Prelude
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Like an introduction to a piece of writing or music that sets out the bigger ideas of the greater piece of work (poem, book…)
9
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A Romantic
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Often wrote about ordinary people
Loved nature and were concerned for it
They found emotions very important
