Poetry Comparison Flashcards
EXPOSURE -> KAMIKAZE 1:
“Our brains…” -exposure
“A shaven…”- kamikaze
“Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us”
“A shaven head full of powerful incantations”
.due to incredibly powerful propaganda, easily brainwashed, people happily went to war, thoughts of glory soon turned into constant “ache” of disillusionment
EXPOSURE -> KAMIKAZE 2
.”sudden successive…”- exposure
.”He must have…” - Kamikaze
.”sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow”
.”he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green blue translucent sea”
.nature is powerful in different ways, one through its incessant violence, but also through its pure beauty
EXPOSURE -> KAMIKAZE
Structure
Exposure:
.8 quatrains + long elongated lines created a monotonous relentless structure -> reflects life in the trenches which is not what was promised -> merciless weather is incessant and Owen wants to free himself from torment
Kamikaze:
.use of constant enjambment creates an image of awe and wonder, Garlands free flowing ode to the might of nature contrasts Owen’s, it is the sheer overwhelming sights of nature that force the pilot to choose life, not abandon it, seen at the Volta
TISSUE -> THE EMIGREE
.”paper…” -tissue
.”it may be at…” -The emigree
“Paper thinned by age or touching”
.”it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, but I am branded by a impression of sunlight”
.tissue criticises people for allowing others to assign power to paper to dictate our identity,the emigree does the opposite and assigns her identity to a country
TISSUE -> THE EMIGREE
.”with living tissue…”- tissue
.”there once was…”- the emigree
.“With living tissue, raise a structure, never meant to last”
.”there once was a country, I left it as a child, but my memory of it is sunlight clear”
.both present parts of life, or all of it, as transient, we need to appreciate what else have- Dhaker says we should cherish it, Rumens looks bad with sadness
TISSUE -> THE EMIGREE
structure
tissue:
.lack of rhyme scheme + enjambment give the poem a freedom and openness, reflecting the narrators desire for freedom to explore the many meanings of life
The emigree:
.lack of rhyme scheme -> representative of the narrators feelings of insecurity and a sense of being lost
.enjambment -> reflect the speakers feelings of confinement in her new “city walls” which contrasts tissues sense of freedom
