Poetry Anthology Flashcards
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1
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London - William Blake
Context?
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- Romantic poet
- Wanted to prioritise creativity and individuality
- Was interested in social justice
- Wanted to highlighted poor’s suffering
- Influenced by the French Revolution
2
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Westminster Bridge - William Wordsworth
Context
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- Industrial revolution
- Romantic poet, focused on nature and strong emotions
- Wordsworth and his sister were travelling to France and stopped in London temporarily in the morning
3
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Adlestrop - Edward Thomas
Context?
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- Written after a real train journey when Thomas’s train stopped unexpectedly in the Cotswolds
- Inspired by Romantic poetry
- Disliked urbanisation
- Died in WW1 a few years after writing Adlestrop
- The poem shows the peaceful nature of England before the war
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Home Thoughts from Abroad - Robert Browning
Context?
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- Inspired by Romantic poetry
- Love of nature, strong emotions
- Poem written whilst Browning was in Italy, homesickness and appreciation of English countryside in spring
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Where the Picnic Was - Thomas Hardy
Context?
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- Opposed industrialisation
- Part of a sequence of elegies written by Hardy about his wife’s death
- Written to make amends after his ill-treatment of her
6
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Absence - Elizabeth Jennings
Context?
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- Jennings was part of “The Movement” which opposed modern, obscure poetry
- Most of her poems written in plain English so can be universally understood
- Her poems became increasingly autobiographical
7
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London - William Blake
Form and structure
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- Rigid, regular quatrains
- Regular AB rhyme scheme
- Anaphora
- Regular, march-like rhythm
- Acrostic form (HEAR)
8
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Westminster Bridge - William Wordsworth
Form and structure
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- Petrarchan Sonnet
- Iambic pentameter
- ABBA rhyme scheme in octet
- ABABAB rhyme in sestet
9
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Home Thoughts from Abroad - Robert Browning
Form and structure
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- Two stanzas
- Chronological order (re-living it)
- ABAB and rhyming couplets (idealistic)
10
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Where the Picnic Was - Thomas Hardy
Form and structure
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- Three stanzas
- Irregular rhyme scheme
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Adlestrop - Edward Thomas
Form and structure
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- Four stanza
- ABCB rhyme until last stanza
- Iambic pentameter followed roughly, creates conversational tone
- Calm tone, speaker is absorbed in the memory
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Absence - Elizabeth Jennings
Form and structure
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- Three quintets (neat, well-tended)
- Regular ABABA rhyme
- Iambic pentameter
- Emphasises contrast between her steady surroundings and her emotions
- Half-rhyme in final stanza shows her grief even affects her poetry
