Seen poems Flashcards
The Manhunt - structure
Then, and only then, did I come close.
Repetition
- Caesura - slows down pace reflecting a long period of time
Only then could i picture the scan
- anaphora ( repeated throughout the poem )
- Shows the time / patience the Laura had to go through
The Manhunt - Lang
The parachute silk of his punctured lung
- Plosive alliteration
- Body is not able to fully function
- Connotations of delicacy and fragility
The foetus of metal beneath his chest where the bullet had finally come to rest
- Personification ‘rest’
- Oxymoronic ‘foetus’ life ‘bullet’ death
The Manhunt - form
And feel the hurt of his grazed heart.
- Couplets / 2 line stanzas
- Looks / correlates to a ladder presenting the journey they took
The Manhunt - Context
- About a couple - Laura and Eddie Beddoes
- Was written for a Channel 4 documentary called ‘forgotten heroes: the not dead’
- Eddie was a soldier who served in the Bosnian war and who was discharged due to injury and depression.
- Armatige is often noted for his strong sense of rhythm and meter
I wanna be yours - Lang
Let me be your raincoat for those frequent rainy days
- Metaphor
- Protection during her difficulties and hardships
With deep devotion deep as the deep atlantic ocean
- Simile
- Large span of love
I wanna be yours - Structure
That’s how deep is my emotion deep deep deep deep de deep deep
- Repetition of adj
- Overwhelmed and has an urgency for this ‘love’
I wanna be yours - Form
Cleaner/cortina dust/rust
- Rhyming couplets
- However near the end of the poem the form becomes irregular
I wanna be yours - Context
- Was a poet of the punk rock era of the 1970s
- Characterized by his rapid-fire renditions of his poems, performed a cappella
- Poetry is non traditional (colloquial)
- Rejecting the mainstream
- Social realism - creating a realistic depiction of life in order to comment on life
One Flesh - lang
She like a girl dreaming about childhood
- Simile - not longer happy
- Noun ‘dreaming’ showing she is not present in the moment, dissociating
Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion
- Simile - reflection of their wrecked marriage
One Flesh - struct
How cool they lie.
- Cesura - statement, end of passion
Strangely apart, yet strangely close
- Repetition suggesting how unnatural this is.
- Sibilance - emphasises the poignant silence in the house.
One Flesh - form
3 stanzas - linking to the 3 people in the poem and the separation within their family - no quote needed
One Flesh - context
- Traditionalist rather than innovative
- Autobiographical
- Known for her lyric poetry and mastery of form, simplicity of meter and rhyme
- Poetry is influenced by her roman catholic beliefs
Sonnet 43 - lang
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
- Alliteration of ‘l’
- Shows fluidity -how easy it is for her to prove her love
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
- Metaphor - spatial imagery
- Polysyndetic listing
Sonnet 43 - struct
I love thee with the passion
- Anaphora - build up emphasises love
- Like a tolling bell
Smiles, tears, of all my life!
- Asyndetic listing - her/his love does not ever waver
- Caesura ‘!’ is a show of how emotionally overwhelmed she is
Sonnet 43 - from
Written in iambic pentameter - regular like her love
Petrarchan form - romantic / full of love and passion
Sonnet 43 - context
- Eloped in 1845/6 and her father disinherited her due to this and they then moved to Florence
- Collection of ‘sonnet from the Portuguese’ - collection of love poems
- Both influenced each other’s writing greatly.
Neutral tones - Lang
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
- Juxtaposition
- Superlative ‘deadest’
- Full of bitterness
- Disembodied emotion, unnatural, insincere
Like an ominous bird a-wing
- Simile
- Nothing good, still vivid in his memory
-Scares him how cruel it was
Neutral tones - Struct
Your eyes on me were eyes that rove
- Repetition - Boredom that he feels and how tense the environment is
- Rove = traveling constantly
And the god-curst sun and a tree and a pond
- Polysyndetic listing - enhances a sense of monotony / dissatisfaction
Neutral tones - Form
Form abba and has 4 regular stanzas showing how nothing changes and how still it all is
We stood by a pond - And a pond
- Cyclical structure - they have not moved on they are on lock a stasis
No closure
Neutral tones - Context
- Believed that this poem was written about Emma Gifford whom he married in 1874
- The couple remained childless and became increasingly estranged and unhappy with each other
- Emma’s death in 1912 has a traumatic effect on him
- Famous for writing pessimistic and bleak writings
- Part of the 1898 collection ‘Wessex poems’
