Poetry Specific Flashcards
A broken appointment quotes 1
The poem starts with “You did not come,” and ends with “You do not love me”-No I’m finished with single short lines, expresses rejection starts and ends with you
Personification in a broken appointment
“And marching time drew on, and wore me numb”-Time is personified to signify it’s moving onto he stays there waiting, rejection and unrequited love. 
Rhyming couplets in a broken appointment
(Numb some) (make sake) in the first stanza, Shows that Time has passed
Alliteration in a broken appointment
“Yet less for loss of your day presence there”-Alliteration of subcontinent expresses defeat less loss,Shows the lovers lack of compassion it’s not that she isn’t there, but she didn’t feel bad enough to turn off that hurts the lyrical speaker.
Themes in a broken appointment
Loss
Pain
Desire
Longing
Distance
Reflection
Time
Unrequited
love
Rejection
I wouldn’t thank you for a valentine themes
Love and rejecting relationship normalities, frustration, repetitiveness, expressing feelings + emotions and Valentines
Information about I wouldn’t thank you for a Valentine
Made up of four stanzas,Written by Liz Lochhead in 1947. A comedic rejection of cliche Valentines with a romantic twist at the end.
The end of every stanza
The first three stands is all ending “I wouldn’t thank you for a valentine”, but the last stanza ends and “I wouldn’t thank you, I’d melt.”
Informal language used in I wouldn’t thank you for a Valentine
“I cannny be bothered deciphering it-“ -Scottish dialect, expresses what she thinks/has said before
Sibilance in I wouldn’t thank you for a Valentine
“Sticky sickly saccharine”- Sibilance shows disgusting bitterness and it’s over the top which shows how cliche Valentine’s Day is for the lyrical speaker.
Rejection of love In I wouldn’t thank you for a Valentine
“You didn’t highly failed to charming, in fact I detest it” -Shows that the lyrical speaker finds love to be insincere and has possibly been suggests manipulation in a relationship
Last sentence and I wouldn’t thank you for a Valentine
“I wouldn’t thank you, I’d melt”- Undermines the whole poem? Expresses A place of vulnerability for the lyrical speaker. And a longing for genuine love 
A song themes
Main things are love and optimism
Things to know about the poem a song
It’s a ballad, usually used to tell a story. The lyrical speaker values love above Financial wealth.There are six stanzas, for the first four stands as there is an optimistic tone and then for the last two tone changes to be more ominous and negative.
A metaphor in The poem a song
“And when I asked for bliss on earth, I only meant his love” -A metaphor paradise “his” The pronoun specifies who lyrical speaker is talking about, religious connotations,linking love to listen on earth/heavenly feelings.
