Poetry Week Eight Flashcards
‘so much ………………. on a red wheel barrow’
depends
‘…………… with rain water beside the white chickens’
glazed
Name two things Williams learnt from ‘the old black man’ about his daily routine.
Any from the following:
1. He had been a fisherman. 2. He used to tell me how he had to work in the cold in freezing weather, standing ankle deep in cracked ice packing down the fish. 3. He said he didn’t feel cold.
Define ‘exertion’.
Physical or mental effort.
Define ‘enjambment’.
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
Define ‘free verse’.
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm.
It’s just a piece of cloth that makes the guts of men grow ……..’
bold
‘You were ……………… to me’
sunrise
What was John Agard taught about in British Guyana?
British history and culture
What does Grace Nichols use as inspiration for her poetry?
Her Caribbean heritage, folk tales, the tradition oforal storytelling and her move between cultures.
Define ‘colonisation’.
The action and process of settling among and establishing control over an indigenous people of an area.
What does ‘infer’ mean?
Deduce or work out something from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
Define ‘replenish’.
Restore (a stock or supply) to a former level or condition.
‘the steady breaking and ………………….’
wombing
‘groggily groggily comes back to ………….. of a grey metallic soar’
sands
What does the subject in Island Man long for?
The warmth and simple pleasures of the islands that are the home of his birth, while living with friends and family in a cold northern climate.
Define ‘auditory’.
Relating to the sense of hearing.
Define ‘immigrant’.
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
Define ‘yearn’.
Have an intense feeling of longing for something, typically something that one has lost or been separated from.
‘stick is the whip and the ……….. deck is slavery’
dark
