Poetry - Part 2 Flashcards
Give two or three quotes for “Charge of the light brigade”
“Half a league” (repeated) - “Flash’d as they turned in the air” - “While horse and hero fell” - “All the world wondered”
What is “Charge of the light brigade” about?
Perhaps makes the reader question the futility of war, but the poet expresses a sense of glory and patriotism - As Tennyson made the countries official poems, so it was propaganda.
Give two or three quotes for “Exposure”
”, we hear mad gusts tugging on the wire” - “Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence.” - “Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow,” - “For the love of God seems dying”
Give the main theme for “Exposure”
The poet Wilfred Owen was actually in the war other than Tennyson. He describes the futility and reality of war - and a theme about how weather is deadly compared to the bullets coming towards them.
Give two or three quotes for “Storm on the Island”
Oxymoron “exploding comfortably” - Simile “the flung spray hits the very windows, spits like a tame cat turned savage”
Give a theme in “Storm on the Island”
The poet is Irish, and could be talking about the island in the current political times. Describes the weather as being powerful and overwhelming the people (could be a metaphor for Irelands civil war or England)
Give two or three quotes for “The prelude - Stealing the boat”
“A huge peak, black and huge…Upreared its head” - “with purpose of its own And measured motion like a living thing” - “craggy steep till then” (volta)
Give a theme for “The prelude”
Theme of nature overpowering the boy, scaring him and making him return the boat. Uses metaphors to make the mountain seem alive.
Name one or two quotes for “Kamikaze”.
“remembered how he and his brothers waiting on the shore” - “arcing in swathes like a huge flag”
