Poetry of the Decade - History, An Easy Passage, The Deliverer Flashcards
H - Structure?
No consistent rhyme, Only four sentences, stream of consciousness (represents chaos of life), but structured in thoughts of clarity surrounding the bigger picture situation (9/11)
Poet of History?
John Burnside
H - ‘today’, ‘today’, ‘on days like this’
Repetition of time markers - shows a struggle to remain present amidst the significance of historical events
H - ‘Gasoline smell from Leuchars’, ‘to the hum of the radio’
Intrusion of man-made items - how the man-made overshadows the beauty and significance of the natural world
H - ‘Jamjars of spawn and sticklebacks of gold fish carried home from fairgrounds’
childish interactions with nature which at once seemed innocent now seem to be, in adulthood, damaging and harmful (adults overthink and can not live in the moment)
H - ‘- with the news in my mind, and the muffled dread of what may come -‘
Parenthesis - emphasisies the separation and intrusion of the historical moment on the everyday/present
H - ‘snail shells, shreds of razorfish; smudges of weed and flesh on the tideworn stone.’
Sibilance - emphasises the peace of nature, attention is drawn back, infiltration of violence even on the natural (razor, smudges, flesh)
H - ‘reading from the book of silts and tides’
Authority of the natural world in a metaphor. Natural marks on the world are important to escape from the man-made
H - ‘a child’s first nakedness’
contrasts vulnerability and peaceful innocence with the magnitude of the historical moment, attempt to balance the two
H - ‘Through everything attentive to the irredeemable’
ends on a positive tone, the significance of his son’s youth and how the present moment can not be regained so there focus should remain
Poet of An Easy Passage?
Julia Corpus
AEP - Structure?
