Poetry Anthology Structure Flashcards

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The prelude

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  • Autobiographical poem - a Personal story, their experience with nature
  • dramatic monologue
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Storm on the island

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  • cyclical structure
  • dramatic monologue
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Ozymandias

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  • sonnet
  • iambic pentameter
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Exposure

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  • cyclical structure
  • anaphora - to show the repetitive nature of conflict
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My last duchess

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  • single stanza
  • dramatic monologue
  • iambic pentameter
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London

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  • iambic pentameter
  • uniform stanza length
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Charge of the light brigade

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  • enjambement and casesura
  • quicken the pace of the poem, mirrors chaos and panic of war
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Bayonet charge

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  • enjambement - quicken the pace, overwhelming
  • start in media res
  • casesura - reader to pause, consider war
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Checking out me history

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  • italics used to se prête the distinct stanzas
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Thé émigrée

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  • no progression in the narrative - stuck in the past
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Remains

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  • dramatic monologue
  • enjambement - can’t separate the past from the present
  • casesura - interrupt life
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Poppies

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  • cyclical structure - the son participâtes in remembrance to being remembered
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Kamikaze

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  • consistant and ordered
  • undermined by free verse and enjambement
  • changing narratives perspectives
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War photographer

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  • cyclical structure - frutality of the attempt to make a change
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Tissue

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  • most stanzas mark a change in tissue paper
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