Poetry methods and context Flashcards
Who so list key methods (6)
- Fricative alliteration - sense of panting/ exhaustion
- Metrical play (creates heavy sound)
- Extended metaphor
- Bitter tone of Petrarchan sonnet
- Assonance - despair
- semantic field of pain and despair
Who so list CONTEXT
- Speculated that poem is about Anne Boleyn and that Wyatt was infatuated with her
- can be read as an allegory in which the speaker represents Wyatt, the hind Anne Boleyn
Sonnet 116 methods (5)
- syntax- image of pairs
- Hyperbolic, idealistic and emphatic
- Strong, perfect rhymes (confident argument)
- fatalistic tone
- personifies love
The Flea methods (3)
- Metaphysical poetry, use of metaphysical conceit
- Regular, consistent rhyme scheme
- Persuasive/ hyperbolic language (use rhetorical question)
The Flea Context
Imagery of a flea was a popular romantic subject
To His Coy Mistress (5)
- Carpe diem + Metaphysical poet
- lexical field of death
- sense of urgency and gustatory imagery
- reminds of morality to seduce
- Blazon poetry
To His Coy Mistress Context
Lived through English Civil War, constant reminder of his morality
The Scrutiny (4)
- Dramatic monologue - self-centred
- Iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter- lively pace, casual and playful
- Assonance- impatience
- Deeply self-serving, witty argument for promiscuity
Scrutiny context
Cavalier poet- often playful, highly intelligent and refined, Shows off poet’s wit
A Song (Absent from thee) (4)
- Satirical, plays on typical conventions of love poetry
- Standard form of Restoration Song, Iambic tetrameter
- Alliteration and Assonance- slow pace and emphasis
- Melodramatic image of infidelity
Absent form Thee context
- Restoration poets, debauched and hedonistic era
- Wilmot- scandalous poet and libertine
The Garden of Love methods (4)
- Allegory- comments on society
- Biblical allusion to Garden of Eden
- Consonance binding ‘t’- negativity and foreboding
- Polysyndeton - intensifies sound, more authoritative
William Blake context
Romantic poet- dissatisfied artists challenging the corruption of the church
Song (Ae fond Kiss) methods (4)
- Anaphora
- Parallelism
- Antithesis
- Feminine rhyme- dying off, appropriate for goodbye
Song (Ae fond kiss) context
Sentiment poetry- to his lover Nancy who left to the West Indies
She walks in beauty methods (3)
- Binary opposition
- Antithesis
- Balanced phrases
Lord Byron
2nd generation Romantic poet
Remember methods (4)
- Petrarchan sonnet
- diacope
- anadiplosis
- insists emphatically
Remember context
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- acceptance with death
The Ruined maid methods (4)
- Anapaestic tetrameter
- Alliteration- envious tone
- refrain and sibilance
- differing dialects
The Ruined Maid context
- Victorian realist
- Hardy opposed the cruelty/hypocrisy of Victorian society
- Female sexuality was demonised
At an Inn methods (2)
- Personifies love
- divided in 2 parts: fantasy and reality
La Belle Dame methods (5)
- Ballad, narrative poem
- Medieval setting, courtship
- Fantastical imagery, transcient beauty
- Repetition- emphasis, routine and inevitable
- Cyclical structure
La Belle Dame context
2nd generation Romantic poet, influenced by Renaissance literature
Non sum Qualis methods (5)
- Remote, dream like ideal
- Diacope- serious pain
- Repetition of refrain
- Constant ABACBC rhyme, regular form
- Alliteration ‘r’- reckless
Non Sum Qualis context (2)
- Decadent movement- melancholy but pleasure loving
- Aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality
