Simple Authors, Dates, Context, Structure Flashcards
Manhunt
Simon armitage
2007
Bosnia war
Couplets
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett browning
1850
Sonnet = love
London
William Blake
1789
Radical political views - class attack (on government + monarchy)
Iambic pentameter - relentless, unbroken misery
Soldier
Rupert Brooke
1914
War propaganda
Sonnet
She walks in beauty
Lord Byron
1814
Saw a woman at a party
Iambic pentameter - harmonious
Living space
Imtiaz dharker
1997
Slums in Mumbai
Unexpected line breaks - irregular lines (1st line)
As imperceptibly as grief
Emily Dickinson
1880
She was often lonely at home
Cozy apologia
Rita dove
2004
For her husband, during a hurricane
Stanzas run over - stream of consciousness - hurricane that doesn’t stop
Valentine
Carol ann Duffy
1993
Lesbian - unconventional relationship = unconventional love
One sided convo = relationship
Full stops= threatening
Wife in London
Thomas hardy
1899
Woman receiving news of her husbands death in war
2 sections = narrative
Death of a naturalist
Seamus Heaney
1966
Brother died when Heaney was 13 - loss of childhood
Volta - active participant to horrified observer
Hawk roosting
Ted hughes
1960
Consistent stanza - consistency in natural world
To autumn
John Keats
1819
3 stanzas - getting progressively closer to death - symbolising life
Afternoons
Philip Larkin
Late 1950s
Post war era - pessimistic outlook
Dulce et decorum est
Wilfred Owen
1918
Reality of being a soldier - highly romanticised
Double sonnet - ironic (not love)
ABAB - marching
Subverts iambic pentameter - subverts expectations of being soldier
