Poetry Anthology Flashcards
What are the main themes in when we two parted and who is the author?
secret love and separation
by Lord Byron
What are the main themes in Love’s Philosophy and who is the author?
unrequited and sexual love
Percy Shelley
What are the main themes in Porphyria’s lover and who is the author?
obsessive love and power dynamic
Robert Browning
What are the main themes in Neutral Tones and who is the author?
Unrequited love and looking back in acceptance
Thomas Hardy
What are the main themes in The Farmer’s Bride and who is the author?
Sexual desire, gender roles, power dynamics
Charlotte Mew
What are the main themes in Follower and who is the author?
Admiration of parent, shift of responsibility
Seamus Heaney
What are the main themes in Before you were mine and who is the author?
Admiration of parent, guilt of taken away mother’s freedom
Carol Ann Duffy
Give 3 aspects of structure and what they show in When we two parted.
Regular Rhythm: constant feelings that wont go away, grieving
Alternate Rhyme: Pairs, constant feelings that wont go away
Sibilance: secrecy and whispering
Give 3 aspects of structure and what they show in Love’s Philosophy.
Regular Alternate Rhyme: assertive, persuasive, longing, pairs
Mostly regular rhythm: assertive, persuasive, short lines interrupt rhythm making them more prominent
Rhetorical Questions: provokes thought, persuasive, longing/desire
Give 3 aspects of structure and what they show in Porphyria’s lover.
Regular Rhythm Mostly: assertive, controlling
Regular ABABB Rhyme: distastefully calm, cold, calculating, controlling
Rhythm breaks when she is present reflecting how writer can’t control her then is re-instated once she dies, reflecting controlling nature of writer
Give 3 aspects of structure and what they show in Neutral Tones.
Enclosed ABBA Rhyme: unrequited, Petrarchan love, distant
Shorter indented lines at the end of stanzas: emphasis, impact, pause
Polysyndeton in last two lines: slows it down, breaks rhythm, pensive/thoughtful
Give 3 aspects of structure and what they show in The Farmer’s Bride.
Varying Rhyme and Imperfect Structure: imperfect relationship, trying to make it work but it isn’t, ups and downs in relationship
Semantic field of Bride as vulnerable animal and farmer as hunter for sympathy
Told in Farmer’s voice, so the Bride doesn’t get a voice or an opinion
Give 4 aspects of structure and what they show in Follower.
Reads like prose: story of father and son, connects with the reader
Imperfect alternate Rhyme: struggle to replicate father, effort to be similar, not exact copy
Elements of Ballad form to portray father as heroic
Enjambment over the first and second stanza to show distant connection
Give 2 aspects of structure and what they show in before you were mine.
First person voice of daughter to convey her emotions effectively to reader - guilt and admiration
Mix of present and past: connects memories and longing to be with who her her mother used to be
1 grew thy cheek and 2, colder thy 3
from 4
1) pale
2) cold
3) kiss
4) when we two parted
Pale 1 thy 2 and cold, 3 thy kiss
from 4
1) grew
2) cheek
3) colder
4) when we two parted
A 1 in mine 2
from 3
1) knell
2) ear
3) when we two parted
1 knell in 2 ear
from 3
1) A
2) mine
3) when we two parted
Who 1 thee too 2… too 3 to tell
from 4
1) knew
2) well
3) deeply
4) when we two parted
1 knew thee 2 well… 3 deeply to 4
from 5
1) who
2) too
3) too
4) tell
5) when we two parted
In 1 we met , in 2 I grieve
from 3
1) secret
2) silence
3) when we two parted
1 secret we 2, in silence I 3
from 4
1) in
2) met
3) grieve
4) when we two parted
How 1 I greet 2? - with 3 and tears
from 4
1) should
2) thee
3) silence
4) when we two parted
1 should I 2 thee? - 3 silence and 4
from 5
1) How
2) greet
3) with
4) tears
5) when we two parted
All 1 by law 2/ in one 3 being 4
from 5
1) things
2) divine
3) another’s
4) mingle
5) Love’s Philosophy
1 things by 2 divine/ in 3 another’s 4 mingle
from 5
1) all
2) laws
3) one
4) being
5) Love’s Philosophy
Why 1 I with 2?
from 3
1) not
2) thine
3) Love’s Philosophy
1 not I 2 thine?
from 3
1) why
2) with
3) Love’s Philosophy
No 1-flower would be 2/ if it disdain’d its 3
from 4
1) sister
2) forgiven
3) brother
4) Love’s Philosophy
1 sister-2 3 be forgiven/ if it 4 its brother
from 5
1) no
2) flower
3) would
4) disdain’d
5) Love’s Philosophy
What are 1 these kissings 2/ if thou 3 not me?
from 4
1) all
2) worth
3) kiss
4) Love’s Philosophy
1 are all 2 3 worth/ if 4 kiss 5 me?
from 6
1) what
2) these
3) kissings
4) thou
5) not
6) Love’s Philosophy
1 with the ocean
from 2
1) rivers
2) Love’s Philosophy
rivers with the 1
from 2
1) ocean
2) Love’s Philosophy
1 in the world is 2
from 3
1) nothing
2) single
3) Love’s Philosophy
Nothing in the 1 is 2
from 3
1) world
2) single
3) Love’s Philosophy
Waves 1 one 2
from 3
1) clasp
2) another
3)) Love’s Philosophy
1 clasp one another
from 2
1) waves
2) Love’s Philosophy
1 kiss the sea
from 2
1) moonbeams
2) Love’s Philosophy
Moonbeams 1 the 2
from 3
1) kiss
2) sea
3) Love’s Philosophy
Verb choice in Love’s Philosophy: 1, 2, 3, 4
1) mingle
2) mix
3) clasp
4) kiss
the 1 set in early 2 / the sullen 3 was soon 4
from 5
1) rain
2) to-night
3) wind
4) awake
5) Porphyria’s Lover
The rain 1 in 2 to-night / the 3 wind was 4 awake
from 5
1) set
2) early
3) sullen
4) soon
5) Porphyria’s Lover
When 1 in Porphyria; 2 / she shut the 3 out and the 4
from 5
1) glided
2) straight
3) cold
4) storm
5) Porphyria’s Lover
1 glided in 2; straight / she 3 the cold 4 and the storm
from 5
1) when
2) Porphyria
3) shut
4) out
5) Porphyria’s Lover
1, white 2
from 3
1) smooth
2) shoulder
3) Porphyria’s Lover
1, 2 shoulder
from 3
1) smooth
2) white
3) Porphyria’s Lover
From 1 and vainer ties 2 / and give 3 to me 4
from 5
1) pride
2) dissever
3) herself
4) forever
5) Porphyria’s Lover
1 pride and 2 ties dissever / and 3 herself to 4 forever
from 5
1) from
2) vainer
3) give
4) me
5) Porphyria’s Lover
1 moment she was 2, 3, fair
from 4
1) that
2) mine
3) mine
4) Porphyria’s Lover
that 1 she was mine, 2, 3
from 4
1) moment
2) mine
3) fair
4) Porphyria’s Lover
and 1 her. No pain 2 she; / I am 3 sure she 3 no pain.
from 4
1) strangled
2) felt
3) felt
4) Porphyria’s Lover
1 strangled her. No 2 felt she; / I am quite 3 she felt no 4
from 5
1) and
2) pain
3) sure
4) pain
5) Porphyria’s Lover
This 1 my shoulder 2 her head, which droops 3 it still
from 4
1) time
2) bore
3) upon
4) Porphyria’s Lover
1 time my 2 bore her 3, which 4 upon it 5
from 6
1) this
2) shoulder
3) head
4) droops
5) still
6) Porphyria’s Lover
a 1 leaves lay on the 2 sod; / - they had fallen 3 an ash, and were 4
from 5
1) few
2) starving
3) from
4) grey
5) Neutral Tones
A few 1 lay on the starving 2; / - they had 3 from an 4, and were grey
from 5
1) leaves
2) sod
3) fallen
4) ash
5) Neutral Tones
Some 1 played between us 2 and 3 / on which 4 the more by our 5
from 6
1) words
2) to
3) fro
4) lost
5) love
6) Neutral Tones
1 words 2 between 3 to and fro / on 4 lost the 5 6 our love
from 7
1) some
2) played
3) us
4) which
5) more
6) by
7) Neutral Tones
The 1 on your face was the deadest 2 / alive 3 to have 4 to die
from 5
1) smile
2) thing
3) enough
4) strength
5) Neutral Tones
The smile on your 1 was the 2 thing / 3 enough to 4 strength to 5
from 6
1) face
2) deadest
3) alive
4) have
5) die
6) Neutral Tones
A 1 of bitterness 2 thereby / like an 3 bird a-wing
from 4
1) grin
2) swept
3) ominous
4) Neutral Tones
A grin of 1 swept 2 / like an ominous 3 4
from 5
1) bitterness
2) thereby
3) bird
4) a-wing
5) Neutral Tones
1 lessons that love 2 / and wrings with 3, has shaped 4
from 5
1) keen
2) deceives
3) wrong
4) me
5) Neutral Tones
Keen 1 that 2 deceives / and 3 with wrong, has 4 me
from 5
1) lessons
2) love
3) wrings
4) shaped
5) Neutral Tones
More 1 a frightened 2. / One night, in 3 Fall, she 4 away
from 5
1) like
2) fay (fairy)
3) the
4) runned
5) The farmer’s Bride
1 like a 2 fay. / One 3, in the 4, she runned 5
from 6
1) More
2) frightened
3) night
4) Fall
5) away
6) The farmer’s Bride
We 1 her, flying like a 2
from 3
1) chased
2) hare
3) The farmer’s Bride
1 chased her, 2 like a hare
from 3
1) we
2) chased
3) The farmer’s Bride
1 the key 2 her, 3
from 4
1) turned
2) upon
3) fast
4) The farmer’s Bride
Turned the 1 upon 2, 3
from 4
1) key
2) her
3) fast
4) The farmer’s Bride
Not 1, not 2! her 3 beseech
from 4
1) near
2) near
3) eyes
4) The farmer’s Bride
1 near, 2 near! her eyes 3
from 4
1) not
2) not
3) beseech
4) The farmer’s Bride
Look 1 like children 2 her 3 / I’ve 4 heard her 5 at all
from 6
1) round
2) at
3) call
4) hardly
5) speak
6) The farmer’s Bride
1 round like 2 at 3 call / 4 hardly 5 her speak at 6
from 7
1) Look
2) children
3) her
4) I’ve
5) heard
6) all
7) The farmer’s Bride
She 1 in the 2
from 3
1) sleeps
2) attic
3) The farmer’s Bride
1 sleeps 2 the 3
from 4
1) she
2) in
3) attic
4) The farmer’s Bride
The 1 young down of 2, the 3, the 4 of her - 5 eyes, her 6, her hair
from 7
1) soft
2) her
3) brown
4) brown
5) her
6) hair
7) The farmer’s Bride
The soft, 1 2 of 3, the brown, the brown 4 her - her 5, her hair, her 6
from 7
1) young
2) down
3) her
4) of
5) eyes
6) hair
7) The farmer’s Bride
His 1 globed like a 2 sail 3
from 4
1) shoulders
2) full
3) strung
4) follower
His shoulders 1 like a full 2 3
from 4
1) globed
2) sail
3) strung
4) follower
An 1.
from 2
1) expert
2) follower
The 1 rolled over without 2
from 3
1) sod
2) breaking
3) follower
the sod 1 over 2 breaking
from 3
1) rolled
2) without
3) follower
I 1 in his hob-nailed 2
from 3
1) stumbled
2) wake
3) follower
I stumbled 1 his 2 wake
from 3
1) in
2) hob-nailed
3) follower
Sometimes he 1 me on his 2
from 3
1) rode
2) back
3) follower
1 he rode 2 on 3 back
from 4
1) sometimes
2) me
3) his
4) follower
1 I ever did was 2 / in 3 broad 4
from 5
1) all
2) follow
3) his
4) shadow
5) follower
All I 1 did was follow / 2 his 3 4
from 5
1) ever
2) in
3) broad
4) shadow
5) follower
But 1, it is 2 father who 3 stumbling / 4 me and 5 not 6 away
from 7
1) today
2) my
3) keeps
4) behind
5) will
6) go
7) follower
1 today, it is my 2 who keeps 3 / behind me and will 4 go 5
from 6
1) but
2) father
3) stumbling
4) not
5) away
6) follower
Your 1 dress blows 2 your legs. 3.
from 4
1) polka-dot
2) round
3) Marilyn
4) before your were mine
1 polka-dot dress 2 round your 3. 4.
from 5
1) your
2) blows
3) legs
4) Marilyn
5) before your were mine
Your 1 stands at the 2 / 3 a hiding for the 4 one. You 5 its worth 6.
from 7
1) Ma
2) close
3) with
4) late
5) reckon
6) it
7) before your were mine
1 Ma 2 at the close / with a 3 for the late 4. 5 reckon its 6 it.
from 7
1) Your
2) stands
3) Hiding
4) one
5) You
6) worth
7) before your were mine
the 1 ahead of my 2, 3 yell was the best 4, eh?
from 5
1) decade
2) loud
3) possessive
4) one
5) before your were mine
the decade 1 of my loud, 2 3 was the 4 one, 5?
from 6
1) ahead
2) possessive
3) yell
4) best
5) eh
6) before your were mine
I 1 my hands in 2 high-heeled, 3 shoes, 4
from 5
1) remember
2) those
3) red
4) relics
5) before your were mine
I remember my 1 in those 2, red 3, relics
from 4
1) hands
2) high-heeled
3) shoes
4) before your were mine
You’d 1 me the steps on the 2 home from 3
from 4
1) teach
2) way
3) mass
4) before your were mine
1 teach me the 2 on the way 3 from mass
from 4
1) You’d
2) steps
3) home
4) before your were mine
what 2 poems can be used to discuss secret love?
when we two parted
porphyria’s lover
what 2 poems can be used to discuss unrequited love?
love’s philosophy
when we two parted
neutral tones
what 2 poems can be used to discuss sexual love?
Love’s philosophy
the farmer’s bride
what 2 poems can be used to discuss obsessive love?
when we two parted
Porphyria’s lover
what 2 poems can be used to discuss admiration?
porphyria’s lover
follower
before you were mine
what 2 poems can be used to discuss separation?
neutral tones
when we two parted
what 2 poems can be used to discuss the use of nature?
love’s philosophy
the farmer’s bride
what 2 poems have themes of reminiscing?
when we two parted
neutral tones
before you were mine
what 2 poems can be used to discuss parental love?
follower
before you were mine
analyse: Pale grew thy cheek and cold, colder thy kiss
pale and cold contribute to semantic field of death
kiss lost its affection (warmth)
analyse: A knell in mine ear
knell is funeral bell which adds to semantic field of death
pains to hear her name
reminds him of their dead relationship
analyse: Who knew thee too well… too deeply to tell
deep connection, too may show obsession
2nd part shows that he cant tell anyone or he wont be understood by anyone
analyse: in secret we met, in silence I grieve
secret affair
grieve the death of someone
silence because he cant tell anyone about his pain
contrast between we and I to show them separating
analyse: how should I greet thee? - with silence and tears
dash to create pause and emphasis on the last line
end is the same as beginning to reflect cyclical structure showing that even after they meet again, nothing is going to change and he hasn’t moved on from before.
analyse: all things by law divine / in one another’s being mingle
meant to be together
man & woman must be together to reproduce, which is the rule of nature
law divine = religious obligation
mingle = sexual
analyse: why not I with thine?
rhetorical
provokes thought
longing
possible rejection
shortened line for emphasis
analyse: no sister-flower would be forgiven / if it disdain’d its brother
don’t go against the natural order of things
manipulative
unnatural
will be punished for not being with me
analyse: what are all these kissings worth / if thou kiss not me?
desire to be loved
more important than all of nature
persuasive
follow the natural order of things
analyse: verb choice of mingle, mix, clasp, kiss
sexual
romantic
physical, suggests she wants to be inseparable
analyse: the use of the semantic field of natural pairs
uses nature to persuade
creates a sense of fate and what is right
everything exists together and so should we
analyse: the rain set early in to-night / the sullen wind was soon awake
pathetic fallacy shows how the writer was feeling gloomy and melancholy
to-night reflects secrecy of their relationship
meeting at night may also show shame and how their love is forbidden
analyse: when glided in porphyria; straight / she shut the cold out and the storm
glided portray s her as perfect, graceful and angel-like
her presence brought warmth
pathetic fallacy to show writer feeling much better
warmth = affection and love
analyse: smooth, white shoulder
like shes made of marble
perfect like a statue
analyse: from pride and vainer ties dissever / and give herself to me forever
vainer ties is relationship with husband and vainer suggests that it is useless
wants her to leave her husband
giver herself to me shows he treats her like a possession he wants to have
control freak
analyse: that moment she was mine, mine, fair
repetition of mine shows possessive, obsessive nature
controlling
fair may be admiration or fair as in just
mine is a possessive pronoun
analyse: and strangled her. no pain felt she / I am quite sure she felt no pain
caesura creates impact and shock for the reader
pause allows for reader to absorb what just happened
2nd part shows he cares about a her and is justifying his actions
repetition shows that he is trying to persuade himself, but reader thinks he is delusional
analyse: this time my shoulder bore her head, which droops upon it still
opposite position, more stereotypical, suggests this is the right way to be
creates image of corpse on the shoulder of writer while he writes the poem (gothic themes)
sinister, uncanny, psychotic
analyse: repetition of “it” from lines 53-55 in Porphyria’s Lover
objectifying her further adds to possessive nature of writer
makes the reader realise that she is just a dead body now
analyse: all night long we have no stirred / and yet God has not said a word!
justifying to the reader that since God has not punished him, he didn’t do anything wrong
makes reader believe he is delusional and blinded by love, obsession and his need for control
what does Porphyria’s name symbolise?
secrecy of relationship as it is similar to how someone with porphyria cannot go into the sunlight
foreshadowing that she will not be able to see light again
analyse: a few leaves lay on the starving sod; / - they had fallen from an ash and were grey
sibilance brings the readers attention, starving may reflect how he is starved of love
ash is a type of tree but also has connotations of death, decay, cremation
grey shows lifelessness and also creates black and white imagery to show lack of passion and colour in their lives
analyse: some words played between us to and fro / on which lost the more by our love
played suggests something scripted and prepared for
love was lost that day
game imagery by played and lost, perhaps suggesting it never really mattered
analyse: the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing / alive enough to have strength to die
incomplete façade
semantic field of death
2nd part suggest inevitability and is a grim image of their relationship being on its death bed
no strength left in their love
analyse: a grin of bitterness swept thereby / like an ominous bird a-wing
bad omen
not bittersweet, just bitter
smiling through the pain
imagery of crow or sinister bird portraying negativity and apprehension
analyse: keen lessons the love deceives / and wrings with wrong, have shaped me
keen suggests sharp and pertinent
deceives suggests betrayal, trickery, misleading
wrings suggests twisted nature of love
have shaped me shows his acceptance and understanding and how he has moved on
analyse: i chose a maid / too young maybe
chose suggests she did not have a choice and introduces power dynamic
maid suggests worker, doesn’t show love
too young shows she may not have been ready to marry but did not have a choice
analyse: farmer’s bride
throughout at the poem known as the farmer’s bride showing possessive nature and how she is like a commodity or object
also shows that she doesn’t have her own identity
whole poem in farmer’s voice reflecting how the bride doesn’t have a say or voice in anything
analyse: more like a frightened fay / One night, in the fall, she runned away
described as small animals to signify vulnerable, weak, prey-like
alliteration for emphasis
fall like leaves ‘running’ away from the trees
runned suggests that farmer is uneducated and hence doesn’t respect women
analyse: we chased her, flying like a hare
predators hunting prey
hunted like a hare, desperately trying to escape
provokes sympathy
continued semantic field
analyse: turned the key upon her, fast
connotes prison and captivity
critique the power of the farmer
sympathetic to the powerless bride
analyse: ‘not near, not near!’ her eyes beseech
not actually speaking but her eyes are conveying the emotion
beseech shows how she’s powerlessly begging
shows her fear and pure emotion
repetition for emphasis
analyse: the soft young down of her, the brown, the brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair!
sexual admiration
detailed description suggests longing
down means feather - animal imagery
analyse: his shoulders globed like a full sail strung
sail of ship guides and powers the ship, setting its path
broad shoulders suggests carrying responsibility and burden
analyse: “an expert.” “the sod rolled over without breaking”
admiration
caesura to emphasise admiration and show sureness
doing his job perfectly
experienced, skilled, professional
analyse: i stumbled in his hob-nailed wake
stumbled suggests difficulty, l less confident and uncertain
shows him struggling to meet his dad’s level
not ready to take over father’s job
analyse: sometimes he rode me on his back
connection
strong, caring father
lifting him up symbolises helping him grow and supporting him
analyse: all i ever did was follow / in his broad shadow
never managed to take over
admiration
cant live up to father; overshadowed
analyse: but today it is my father who keeps stumbling / behind me and will not go away
time shift to show contrast
now son is caring for father showing inevitable change and shift of responsibility
will not go away may be talking about father’s influence
analyse: your polka-dot dress blows round your legs. Marilyn.
likens mother to marilyn monroe: beautiful but destined to downfall
caesura for emphasis and extra impact
analyse: your Ma stands at the close / with a hiding for the late one. You reckon it’s worth it.
told off for coming home late - average teenager
carefree, young, reckless, cheeky
analyse: the decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?
speaker believes she made her mother’s life worse
possessive shows fierce, constant love for mother
eh? makes it more informal and conversation-like which allows her to convey her guilt of taking her mother’s freedom
analyse: i remember my hands in those high-heeled, red shoes, relics
hands in shoes may signify the child trying to be like mother but doesn’t know how to
playing with mother’s shoes out of admiration and trying to connect with her past
relics connotes pricelessness and unused artefacts from the past
analyse: You’d teach me the steps on the way home from mass
teaching daughter how to be free and express herself
giving the happiness she once had to her daughter
dancing = enjoyment, self-expression
What are the 4 most significant quotes in when we two parted?
pale grew thy cheek and cold, colder thy kiss
a knell in mine ear
in secret we met, in silence i grieve
how should i greet thee? - with silence and tears
What are the 5 most significant quotes in Love’s philosophy?
all things by law divine / in one another’s being mingle
why not I with thine?
no sister-flower would be forgiven / if it disdain’d its brother
what are all these kissings worth / if thou kiss not me?
mingle, mix, clasp, kiss
What are the 6 most significant quotes in Porphyria’s lover?
the rain set early in to-night / the sullen wind was soon awake
when glided in Porphyria; straight / she shut the cold out and the storm
from pride and vainer ties dissever / and give herself to me forever
and i strangled her. No pain felt she /I am quite sure she felt no pain
this time my shoulder bore her head, which droops upon it still
all night long we have no stirred / and yet God has not said a word!
What are the 4 most significant quotes in neutral tones
a few leaves lay on the starving sod; / - they had just fallen from an ash and were grey
the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing / alive enough to have strength to die
a grin of bitterness swept thereby / like an ominous bird a-wing
keen lessons that love deceives / and wrings with wrong, have shaped me
What are the 5 most significant quotes in The Farmer’s Bride?
more like a little frightened fay. / one night, in the Fall, she runned away
we chased her, flying like a hare
turned the key upon her, fast
‘not near, not near!’ her eyes beseech
the soft young down of her, the brown, the brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair!
What are the 5 most significant quotes in follower?
an expert. the sod rolled over without breaking
i stumbled in his hob-nailed wake
sometimes he rode me on his back
all i ever did was follow / in his broad shadow
but today it is my father who keeps stumbling / behind me and will not go away
What are the 4 most significant quotes in before you were mine?
your polka-dot dress blows round your legs/ Marilyn.
the decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?
I remember my hands in those high-heeled, red shoes, relics
You’d teach me the steps on the way home from mass
