Poetry Anthology - Contexts Flashcards
The City Planners
Environmentalist
About controlling human emotion and desire
Targets the misuse of resources by the ‘city planners’
The Planners
Born in 1965 in Singapore
Singapore had a quick growth and economic success - displacement and disconnection
Britain controlled Singapore until late 1950’s
The Man with Night Sweats
Friends got AIDs but he didn’t
Considered death and how he was the one to survive the AIDs pandemic
No direct reference of AIDs - connects with the idea more, idea of shame
Night Sweat
Wrote formal poems - wants standard of formality
Suffered with manic depression
In 1950’s wrote about personal experience (losing formality)
Autobiographical sketch of poets struggle
Rain
WW1 poem - written in 1996
War’s never mentioned - antiwar
Fought in WW1 - killed in battle
Poem focused on countryside and travel
Conversational style
The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument
Famed for viewing the world with a critical eye
Marvels at human birth
Contrasts biological perfection with human wishes
From Long Distance
Poems/plays focuses on class, race and power
Explores response to loss and how grief makes us act illogical (but feel comforting)
Reflects on death of his mother and how his father responds
Funeral Blues
Famed for writing about love, morality, politics and religion
Elegy - poem dedicated to someone who has died
Expresses the emotions of loss and mourning
He Never Expected Much
Wrote poems about fatalism - life beyond our control
Themes of death and loss in prose and poetry
Novelist and poet in Victorian-era
Tension between seeing humanity as ‘doomstruck’ and celebrating the natural world experience
The Telephone Call
Conversational style
Wants people to feel homely and relax whilst listening to close conversation
Uses simple techniques and form to prevent complication
A Consumers Report
1970’s life change due to consumerism
Personal difficulties due to mothers death
Poem is an extended metaphor
Satirises consumer society and how it shapes the outlook on existance
Request To A Year
Had a kid with novelist and philosopher - Jack McKinney
She began to loose her hearing her twenties and went death in 1992
Interested in the role of women
On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book
Lived during the industrial revolution (time of turmoil and drama) Victorian-Era was proper - social, moral and sexual codes
Mourning was a culture in this era
Traditional poet (sonnets and peculiar rhyme scheme)
Away, Melancholy
British novelist and poet
Poems white bleak subject matter with breezy tone
Themes of isolation, depression, pain and individuals role in society
Ozymandias
About Pharaoh Rameses II
Wrote during the time of archaeological exploration (1817)
Shelly was a ‘radical’ - against the monarchy, equal society (ironic as he was a lord from an aristocratic upperclass family)
