Poetry KP idea Flashcards
Rain
Context of war and echoes of battlefields throughout
Ozymandias
The whole story is so long forgotten it blurs what is actually true and what isn’t
Request to a Year
The final rhyming couplet unites the poem and is a touching finish of recognition of greatness
On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book
The significance/importance of remembrance
The City Planners
The final image of senselessness and pointlessness powerfully gives the reader a sense of the danger of bureaucracy
The Planners
The semantic field of dentistry and anaesthesia which reflects the planners numbing approach
He never expected much
Context of him writing at the end of his life is poignant(touching) and significant
Night Sweat
Incompleteness at the end mimics his own lack of certainty/difficulty in resolution
Funeral Blues
Vastness and extensive nature of his grief; gives the title a kind of ironic bathos
