Post 2000s Revision Flashcards
Eat Me key quotes
“each stone in weight”
“hips judder like a juggernaut”
“beached whale”
“i was a tidal wave of flesh”
“too fat”
“poured olive oil down my throat”
“there was nothing in the house left to eat”
Eat Me Key Techniques
Anaphora of Too fat - Speeds the pace up, frantically, the desperation of the man in power
Tone change - Stone in weight - Darkens the tone
Like a juggernaut - Simile - Mimics her sounds, can be seen as her power that she hides and disregards
Water imagery throughout
Eat Me structure and form
Dramatic Monologe
6 Stanzas
Volta last 3 stanzas
Very tight form - Mimics restrictive nature of the poem, creates this tension
Eat Me themes
Power and Control
Violence
Masculinity
Chainsaw vs Pampas Key Quotes
weightless wreckage of wasps
dropped the saftey catch and gunned the trigger
just an instant rage
chainsaw with its bloody desire, its sweet tooth
i let it flare, lifted it up to the sun
ludicrous feathers
Chainsaw Key techniques
Personifies the chainsaw- the violent egotistical narcissistic invention of man that performs violent acts
animalistic imagery
metaphor of the heart beat- it isn’t alive it has been created for destruction - ironic as nature is alive
Chainsaw Form and Structure
No regular rhyme
Free verse
Chainsaw Themes
Violence
Power
Masculinity
Power of nature
Lammas Hireling Key Quotes
I grew fond of company. That knew when to shut up ( Changes the tone)
The moon came out ( Gothic notion of the moon witnessing crimes )
His lovely head thinned. His top lip gathered ( intimate)
I carried him
i don’t dream - circular- He did dream at the beginning- so consumed with guilt
i dropped him from a bridge - violent
Bless me father for i have sinned. It has been an hour since my last confession ( religious symbolism - incredibly plagued by guilt- he repeats this story again and again )
Lammas Form and Structure
Dramatic Monologue- Mirros in a sense the coffesional tone to the poem
free verse, half rhyme
Tightly controlled
Archaic quality
Lammas Themes
Guilt
Violence
Giussepe Key quotes
Captive mermaid ( Metaphor- for victims in war - mythology)
her throat was cut
anyway and egg is not a child ( brutal uncaring language)
couldn’t look me in the eye ( immense gulit)
Guiseppe Techniques
alliteration
simile
flat tone - suppressed emotions
Guiseppe themes
Murder
Guilt
Violence
Guiseppe Form and structure
Free Verse
Methodical line breaks and emjabment to create sinister pace
The Gun Key Quotes
Bringing a gun into a house changes it
gray- shadow and green- checkered ( uncomfortable colours )
rabbit shot clean through the head ( violent imagery, the volta, incredibly brutal)
your eyes gleam like when sex was fresh
the king of death (simile )
spouting gold on croucos (cycle like)
The Gun Themes
Violence
Power
Gun Form and Structure
Free verse
unstructured feel - like the speakers thoughts
Material Key quotes
my mother was the hanky queen ( metaphor )
hankies were material ( always linking back to the material)
spitted and scrubbed (sibilance, soft motherly care)
greengrocer george and friendly bunches ( genertaional difference , community in neighbourhoods )
would whip out a hanky ( repeated imagery of motherly care)
i raised neglected looking kids ( contrast between her and her mam, regret)
It isn’t mine i’ll let go my mother too eventually ( the death of her mother, letting go of the past, slower stanza )
Material key themes
Family and Parenthood
Grief and loss
Memory
Mothers love and affection
Material Structre and form
Free verse
Rhyme
9 stanzas
Out of the bag key quotes
the trap sprung mouth ( animalistic, uneasy)
Back into their lining ( personification of the doctor’s bag)
spaniel coloured ( link to animals sense of uneasiness )
tea-hued infant parts ( changes to dark tone, violent and unpleasant imagery)
OTB themes
childhood innocence
medicine
violence
memory
OTB structure and form
13 stanzas
free verse gives poem a more intimate confessional quality
no strict meter
An East Passage Key Themes
Memory
Family
An East Passage Key quotes
she must not do is think
friend who she is half in love
warm flank ( body imagery)
the grains of the asphlat ( indication of an uncomfortable aging struggle)
what can she know ( the changes of aging, the innocence of childhood)
Easy Passage Structure and form
Conversation Tone throught- as if she’s talking to her old self
Free verse no rhyme
captures one moment
Genetics Key Quotes
my fathers in my fingers and my mothers in my palms ( anaphora)
when fingers link to palms
at least i know their marriage by my hands
mirroring bodies in the future
we know our parents make us by our hands
Genetics Structure and Form
Villanelle
Lyricism - almost has a nursery like rhyme within
constant anophora
Genetics Themes
Family
Love
Memory / Reflection
9 Yr old self key quotes
you must forgive me don’t look so suprised ( regret and guilt in childhood )
i have spoiled this body we once shared (corruption of adulthood in childhood contradicts speed)
the dream we had (through adulthood she lost all faith in her dreams )
for men in cars after girl children ( fears of who to look out for, a sense of danger)
i shan’t cloud your morning (darker tone reflection, doesn’t want to dissapoint)
i have fears enough for the both of us
i’ll leave you in ecstacy
9 Yr old self themes
Reflection/ Memory
Love
Family
Loss almost
9yr old self structure and form
Dramatic Monologe- confessional mimics the sense she is writing tk her past self
Furthest Distances Key Quotes
i saddled a rucksack ( starts with sub clause to xtreate tension, starts with excitement )
cells of scattered airports ( metaphor for siberia snowyness , also represents the amount of travelling )
as over a tannoy ( simile of announcements / thoughts )
was some kind of destiny ( foreshadowing)
routine evictions ( melancholy of everyday life)
pressed flowrr amid bottom drawers ( nostalgia)
Furthest Distances Themes
Journey/ Travel
Memory/ Reflection
Loss/ Melancholy
Nostalgia
Lonlieness
Furthest Distances Structure
Loose rhyme
Lyricism
Rhyme scheme at end becomes more structured represented every day capitalist life style
Blindness Key quotes
bear being blind (alliteration)
handicaps are hell
like a roman ( simile compare unlikeness)
it’s living hell ( pain around living with this)
she kept her dignity
she pretended to ignore the void
dying has made her no less more sightless
she was watching somewhere in the end q
Blindness Key themes
Loss/ Grief
Memory and reflection
Disability
Blindness Structure and Form
Free verse
No rhyme
Not lyrical
Enjabment forces reader to move quickly
Effects Key quotes
i held her hand that was always scared
giving love the only way she knew ( asyentic listing)
the rings she kept ( anaphora of rings , symbol of love )
she was his wife ( rumination of death)
not all the weeks i didn’t come ( tone of regret )
stared unseeing ( semantic mirroring)
Effects Key Themes
Loss
Memory and reflection
Regret
Effects structure and form
One long stanza
A minor role key quotes
i’m bessed observed on stage
exits and entrances - conceat of theatre
waiting room roles - visual imagery of drawing the curtain
thinking ahead. bed? - rheototical they can only speek to them selves
i am here to make you believe in life - circular
Minor Role structure and form
Truncated Structure
No rhyme scheme
6 unequal stanzas
Minor role key themes
Reflection
Melancholy
Please Hold Key quotes
This is the future
wonderful - repetition
number - repittion
paying the robots for doing nothing - expressing his anger
mind reading robot - ironic
I scream - tone more frustrated
Please Hold key themes
Modern Technology
Anger
Please Hold Structure
All one stanza with a lot of repition
Journal Key quotes
i discovered these men driving a pile - animalistic like watching prey
even men ; the powerful men - masculinity physically powerful - he is distanced from that
all monosylibles- mocking the men
playing close attention - feels incredibly distant
men were up against great difficulty- pressures of masculinity
Journal Key themes
Memory
Distance
Masculinity
Journal structure and form
Tightly controlled stanza - link to the control and expecting men have in twork
free verse
no rhyme
Dover Key quotes
invade and phlegm’edq- violent imagery around the migrants
cushy-,come and go tourists - how the media see them - harsh C sounds
phlegemed- idea of them being spat on
lording the ministered waves
hitched in a bedford van - animalistic
seasons or years we reap
passport us to life
flecked by the chalk of britannia
Dover structure
Wave like structure - sentnace types and enjabmant
stepped structure
punglism
Dover Themes
Treatment of Migrants
Identity
Ode on a Greyson Perry Quotes
gaudy eviction - crude and condescending language
Daily express expose - conflict and social view of old and young generation
educate a sense of peace, a sense of calm - beauty of living in the moment oral and noise imagery
They will stay out late - suspend in time
chlamydia roulette - the niavity of sexual recklessness
garish crock - tone judgemental
how happy were those creatures then - beauty is truth and truth is beauty link
Ode Greyson Perry Themes
Subjective Beauty
Reflection
Time and change
Greyson Perry Structure and form
Ode - A poem of dedication
Free verse
The Deliverer Key Quotes
How she came to collect the children
found naked in the streets, stuffed in bags - asytntic listing, brutal imagery
dog up by a dog - alliteration - brutal - peak of the horror
know about ceremony - ironic -american traditions differ to this one
plucking hair of hands - juxtaposed
The girl - seperated
Twilight corners - dark tone - repressed memory
toss the baby to the heap of othered
lie down for their men again
Deliverer key themes
Violence
Family
Culture
Identity
Deliverer structure
free verse
conversational - somber
History Key quotes
sand spinning of the ribbons - sibilance - light beautiful - contrast with industrial imagery
muffled dread - emotive -
I knelt down in the sand
finding evidnace of life - horrors of rescuing people from the attack
snail shells; shreds
what we dreamed about - epherreal
i am dizzy with fear
History Structure
cyclical / formed
volta
History Key Themes
Reflection
Humanity
