poetry cluster 1 Flashcards
bayonet charge - pain and fear
and crawled in a threshing circle, its mouth wide
bayonet charge - blind and irrational
like a man who has jumped up in the dark and runs
bayonet charge - disables him
rifle as numb as a smashed arm
bayonet charge - violent imagery
bullets smacking the belly out of the air
bayonet charge - survival
king, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries
bayonet charge - fear
his terrors touchy dynamite
charge of the light brigade - surrounded
cannon to the right of them
cannon to the left of them
cannon in front of them
charge of the light brigade - no choice
theirs but to do and die
charge of the light brigade - lives lost
all that was left, left of the six hundred
charge of the light brigade - galloping
half a league, half a league, half a league onward
++each line has about 5-6 beats that also replicate galloping
dactylic dimeter
charge of the light brigade - pslam 23
into the valley of death
war photographer - entertainment
they do not care
war photographer - regularity + order
with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
war photographer - ptsd
beneath his hands, which did not tremble then though seem to now
war photographer - dead
a half formed ghost
war photographer - pain
a hundred agonies in black and white
remains - guilt
probably armed, possibly not
REPEATED
remains - murder
his bloody life in my bloody hands
remains - sleep
sleep, and he’s probably armed, possibly not
remains - drink
and the drink and the drugs wont flush him out
remains - group
three of a kind all letting fly
exposure - wind
our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us
exposure - snow
less deadly then the air that shudders black snow
exposure - death
is it that we are dying?
exposure - preoccupied
we turn back to our dying
ozymandias - legs
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
ozymandias - visage
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies
ozymandias - command
sneer of cold command
ozymandias - king
king of kings
ozymandias - wreck
colossal wreck, boundless and bare
london - owned
near where the chartered thames does flow
london - marks
marks of weakness, marks of woe
london - trapped
The mind-forged manacles I hear
london - pain
chimney sweeper’s cry…hapless soldier’s sigh
london - end of good
plagues the marriage hearse
the prelude - opening
One summer evening (led by her)
the prelude - size
a huge peak, black and huge
the prelude - darkness
there hung a darkness, call it solitude / or blank desertion
the prelude -
11
the prelude -
11
storm on the island - preparation
we are prepared
storm on the island - savage
sits like a tamed cat turned savage
storm on the island - bombard
we are bombarded by the empty air
london - what is meat by ‘chartered’
owned and regulated
london - what is the rhyme pattern ? what does is represent ?
abab - walking
my last duchess - rhyme
aa bb cc dd etc.
the rigid rhyme shows the control and power the speaker has
my last duchess - thank
thanked
Somehow… as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift
my last duchess - command
I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together
my last duchess - alive
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive
my last duchess - pleased easily
She had A heart—how shall I say? too soon made glad, Too easily impressed
the growing indication is her attention went where it shouldn’t have - shows manipulation of the truth POWER
‘frau’ painted it - monk - no relationship
my last duchess - repetition of alive
There she stands / As if alive
shows she is dead and makes the reader suspicious
kamikaze - opening
he embarked at sunrise
dramatic monologue - hook
sunrise + embark = adventure but title hints at death
sunrise - japan ‘land of the rising sun’ – patriotic/honour
kamikaze - hair
a shaved head full of powerful incantations
implies he is under a spell - influenced by propaganda ? brainwashed ?
shaved - removal of identity
kamikaze - known
enough for a one way journey to history
context - he is not expected to return
one way - no going back, euphemism for suicide
history - makes it seem honourable
kamikaze - switch
but half-way there, she thought recounting it to her children
but - intro to hesitation signifies change
enjambment creates suspense - represents changed mind
he has no voice - heard from daughter
relaxed tone - break signals pause - disconnection from father
kamikaze - reasoning
looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting
sympathy - bunting seems child like
ironic - homely instead of war - contradiction
bunting - colour juxtaposes death
kamikaze - thought
and sometimes he must have wondered which had been the better way to die
doesn’t know the answer - shows his isolation
tragic ending
kamikaze structure
•six lines per stanza
- free verse
- enjambment
lack tight control - represents freedom of expression the pilot wanted
kamikaze natural link
a tuna, the dark prince, muscular, dangerous.
most powerful character in the poem is a fish
threatening tense and powerful image
first full stop - importance
true power belongs to nature - reasoning
kamikaze garland context
interest in the motivation of people to give up their lives
context kamikaze
- suicide missions
* honourable sacrifice
kamikaze link to conflict
personal and national
pull between impulses
cultural expectation vs inner conscience
kamikaze natural image
flashing silver as their bellies swivelled towards the sun
sibilance - energy and movement reflecting natural wonder - why should he deny himself or others the pleasure of nature
kamikaze sun
he embarked at sunrise
link to japan - the land of the rising son
military metaphor - power of man and of nature
kamikaze flags
‘arching in swathes like a huge flag’
‘rising sun’
simile shows the pilots mindset - thinks of flag
brainwashed to see everything through the lens of national service and pride associated with it
