Poetry Anthology Flashcards: ALL POEMS
What is the context surrounding the Prelude?
- romantic poet
- autobiographical
- nature: form of escapism
- had troubled relationship with family, parents died when he was a teenager
- split from his siblings
- went to stay with his uncles and grandparents
Who wrote the Prelude?
William Wordsworth
Who wrote Mametz Wood?
Owen Sheers
What is the context surrounding Ozymandias?
- radical thinker, romantic poet
- ozymandiaas, rameses II, pharaoh
- opposed power, corruption and oppression by government
- hated the monarchy and george III cus militaristic attitude
- pacifist
Who wrote Ozymandias?
Percy Bysse Shelly
What does Dulce et decorum est mean?
It is sweet and honourable
What is the context surrounding DEDE?
- decorated soldier
- died on the 4 november
- antiwar, affected by PTSD
- sought to tell the world about his experience
What is the context surrounding Cozy Apologia?
- set with bg of Hurricane Floyd
- an apologia: defence of something
- in a biracial relationship - felt the need to defend it from haters
Who wrote Cozy Apologia?
Rita Dove
What is the context surrounding As Imperceptibly as Grief?
- recluse
- poems not intended to be published, published after her death
- could see the family graveyard from her bedroom
- outlived lots of her friends and family
Who wrote Imperceptibly?
Emily Dickinson
What is the context surrounding Hawk Roosting?
- wrote poem putting himself in the Hawk’s body and mindset
- studied anthropology and archaeology @ cambridge
- denied interpretation of Hawk being a representation of facism and dictators, claims that he just wanted to show a Hawk’s natural way of thinking
What is the context surrounding Death of a Naturalist?
- lost his brother in a car accident as a child
- strong Roman Catholic upbringing might imply that the poem is about sexual maturity
Who wrote Death of a Naturalist?
Seamus Heaney
What is the context surrounding a Wife in London?
- Boer War
- his poetry often deals with sensitive topics such as victimes of war and its devastating impact
- many viewed the Boer war as unnecessary
Who wrote A wife in london?
Thomas Hardy
What is the context surrounding Valentine?
- challenges the stereotypical viewof a Valentine’s day gift
- breaks conventions and criticising society’s views of being materialistic
- feminist
- bisexual
Who wrote Valentine?
Carol Anne Duffy
Who wrote Afternoons?
Phillip Larkin
Who wrote to autumn?
John Keats
What is the context surrounding living space?
- born in pakistan and raised in glasgow
- draws on her multicultural experience within her work
Who wrote living space?
Imtiaz Dharker
Context - she walks in beauty
- byron described as ‘mad bad and dangerous to know’
- womaniser
- about his cousin’s wife
- forbidden love
- romantic poet
she walks in beauty - author?
lord byron
the soldier - context
- reflects attitudes of the time during first world war
- embodies selfless patriotism
- part of Bloomsbury group
- actually never saw action, died w malaria on french military ship
the soldier - form
- petrarchan sonnet - shows love for his country
- first person
- shakespearean rhyme scheme, idea of enriching foreign things with something english
- unwavering rhyme scheme and clear
the soldier - author
rupert brooke
london - author
william blake
london - context
- romantic poet
- radical political views - supported french revolution
- poem part of songs of experience
sonnet 43 - author
elizabeth barret browning
sonnet 43 - context
- autobiographical - to her lover robert browning
- father disapproved of her relationship and disinherited her
- mainly deaths throughout her life
- published as a translation of portugeuse sonnets so that no one knew it was her who wrote them
manhunt - context
- og aired as channel 4’s documentary - forgotten heroes, not dead
- read by wife laura to soldier eddie bedoes
- eddie served in bosnian war as a peacekeeper and suffered a life changing injury for which he was discharged
- antiwar
manhunt - author
simon armitage
the prelude - form
- first person
- blank verse
- iambic pentameter
- as if it is an intimate conversation with the reader
- enjambment creates sense of joy and spontanaiety
prelude - structure
- 2 main sections
- tone is carefree and wild abandonment
- punctuated with caesuras and lists - conveys energetic excitement of children
- volta: older voice reflects on the nature that went unnoticed as a child
mametz wood - form
- tercets
- 3rd person
- distance and detachement
- enjambment - reflects slow unearthing and passing of time
- reflective tone
structure and form of DEDE
- first person
- autobiographical
- regular ABAB rhyme scheme
- stanzas of irregular length
- iambic pentameter falters
- disjointed like war
Who wrote DEDE
wilfred owen
structure and form of cozy apologia
-personal poem - for fred
- free verse and conversational tone
- 1st stanza - regular rhyming couplets, traditional conformation of love and intimacy
- 2nd stanza - disrupted rhyme scheme as she revisits past relationships
- 3rd stanza - returns to ABAB rhyme scheme as domestic harmony is restored
Imperceptibly - form
- one sentence makes up one whole stanza
- no discernable rhyme or rhythm
- lines are often short and connected by hyphens - gives tone of melancholy reflection
Imperceptibly - structure
- series of metaphors about summer fading away gradually
- mixed metaphor shows difficulty in expressing feelings of loss and that no one idea is adequate
structure and form of hawk roosting
- hawk’s dramatic monologue
- first person - authoritative
- no rhyme - cold harsh and blunt
- each stanza always has 4 lines and is harsh reflective of decisive + controlling nature of the hawk
hawk roosting author
ted hughes
form of death of a naturalist
- first person
- blank verse
- insecure iambic pentameter : change, unpredictability of nature
- enjambment
- enthusiasm + nature’s inability to be constricted
form of wife in london
- irregular rhyme and dashes create pauses + reflect wife’s disbelief at the news
- assymetrical rhyme scheme - wife’s struggle to absorb the news
- ABBAB
form of valentine
- rejection of traditional love poetry - rejection of heteronormativity
- first person
- stanzas of irregular length
- lacks rhyme and rhythm + freeverse : disjointed feeling
context - afternoons
- post war poet
- spoke abt the bleak truths of life
- unmarried
form of to autumn
- ode : usually has 10 lines, this one had 11 to reinforce abundance
- iambic pentameter
structure of to autumn
- in each stanza, keats introduces an aspect of nature and expands on it
- 1: misty morning: ripeness of autumn
- 2: sleepy afternoon: season begins to end
- 3: evening : death of season
- captures passage of time and journey towards death
form and structure of living space
- irregular form
- stanzas and lines lengths of varying lengths
- first stanzas: building under stress and caesuras emphasise how loosely connected the different parts are
- tone shifts towards the end from critical to hopeful
how do the form of structure of the poem mirror its description of the house in living space?
- lack of regular rhyme and rhythm + enjambment across lines and stanzas
- different line lengths make it look like the place it describes
- rhyme holds the poem together, like nails in the walls
structure of the soldier?
- octave: focuses on how england enriches his life
- sestet: death is meaningful and reciprocal
- harmony between octave and sestet shows that their is harmony between a man and his country
structure of sonnet 43
- direct and passionate in its tone + outlines the different ways she loves him
- first 8 love is divine - octave
- last 6: sestet - love is ever lasting
- enjambment - magnitude of her love
- exclamations and caesura passion and ecstasy
mametz wood context
- battle in ww1 in which around 4000 men from british army’s welsh regiment were killed
- written as a response to the farmers in the area still finding bones in their fields
structure and form of ozymandias
- 3 voices : narrator, traveller and ozy
- sonnet - love for power
- lots of caesura and enjambment
- doesn’t follow a regular rhyme scheme
structure of death of a naturalist
- split into 2 stanzas recalling opposing incidents
- 1: abt how he loves the frogspawn
- 2: hostile, abt how the frogs are gna attack him
- volta: nature is now unfamiliar and threatening
structure of wife in london
- poem divided into 2 halves: tragedy and the irony
- first 2 stanzas: accentuate wife’s lonliness trapped in london’s web of fog
- second 2 stanas: juxtapose news of husband’s death with his joyful prose
structure of valentine
- list of ways the onion represents love
- onion - extended metaphor
- tone: initially playful and optimistic
- ends with hostility
form of afternoons
- 3 stanzas of equal length
- no rhythm: static
- end stopped lines = inescapable
context surrounding to autumn
- romantic poet
- liberal in its poetic beliefs
- died of TB, nursed his brother who also had TB
- lost lots of his family at a young age
What is a commonly used language device in she walks in beauty?
light vs dark imagery - antithesis
form of she walks in beauty
- lyrical in tone and nature
- iambic tetrameter
- ABABAB rhyme scheme
- third person: objectifying her no more than vessel of beauty
structure of she walks in beauty
- 3 equal stanzas
-b: woman’s external beauty - e: considers that one’s inner goodness is outwardly magnified
- each stanza is one sentence - sense of fluidity, her effortless grace, poise and elegance
language features in the soldier
- england personified through extended metaphor of a mum
- romanticised idea of war without pain or suffering
- religious imagery - devotion to england is god-like
form of london
- dramatic monologue
- first person
- ABAB rhyme scheme and strict iambic tetrameter
- reflects unforgiving nature of life and routine in the capital - inescapable
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structure of london
- first 2 stanzas - the people he sees
- 3 stanza: criticises institutions
- final stanza refocuses on the people
- enjambment and repitiion - all linked by misery no one left unaffected
language features : sonnet 43
- religious imagery: love is spiritual and unconditional, like her love of god
- repetition of ‘love thee’ - anaphora - intensely personal and direct nature of her feelings
sonnet 43 form
- petrarchan sonnet
- written in iambic pentameter
- rhyme scheme - certainity of her love
- volta: perfectibility of her love
manhunt form
- couplet long stanzas
- rhyme scheme present intially but then disappears making the poem feel disjointed and broken
manhunt structure
- each couplect introduces a new injury
- enjambment reflective of the slow progres wife is making
