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Skirrid Hill Flashcards

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Mametz wood methods (4)

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  • Half- rhyme, links death with orders
  • Earth personified
  • image of dance- expresses comradeship and youth
  • Tercets, traditional Welsh form
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Mametz wood context

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1916 conflict in Mametz; British v Germans. Welsh division of the British army

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Inheritance (4)

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  • Autobiographical, grateful and affectionate tone
  • ‘st’ creates gentle stuttering effect (blend of sibilance and plosives)
  • Welsh literary inheritance
  • Dialectical structure with synthesis
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Marking Time (3)

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  • Unconventional sonnet, loose verse
  • Personifies love
  • memories transient but love’s influences us and changes us forever
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Winter Swans (5)

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  • Pathetic fallacy
  • Monosyllabic
  • Onomatopoeia- metaphor for couple struggling for air
  • Tercets, imbalances but ends on a couplet
  • Swans provide turning point
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Keyways (5)

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  • Brisk, matter-of-fact tone
  • Uses conceit of the keys
  • Imagery of closeness and connection BUT interdependence and frailty
  • jarring shift in tone
  • 5 line stanzas, divided in 3 parts (allows for thoughts and feelings to develop)
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Border Country (5)

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  • Introduction both expository and proleptic
  • naïve sense of morality and idyllic childhood
  • Volta and monosyllabic (violent and sudden transition)
  • shift in perspective to the recent past
  • explores awkward border of adolescence and adulthood
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Border country context

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  • Suicide can be attributed to farmer’s difficulty of BSE epidemic
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Farther (4)

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  • conversational rhythm and narrative poem
  • imagery of generational differences
  • Sense of closeness, unity and bond
  • Only rhyme links to landscape- father and son united by shared Welsh heritage
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Hedge School (4)

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  • Sensory imagery, allusions to luxury
  • Confessional tone
  • Monosyllabic
  • Explores innate human capabilities for aggression
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Hedge School context

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Pardoners Prologue; story about greed and representative of the dark nature and potential for violence in everyone

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Joseph Jones (4)

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  • Reminiscent and colloquial - notorious figure
  • Monosyllabic- dominating aura
  • Crude, primitive and primal description
  • Concrete poetry- fragmented memory
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Y Gaer (3)

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  • Welsh words and Landscape
  • elegy
  • Cathartic but feelings of helplessness and agony
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The Hill Fort (4)

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  • Habitual past tense- evokes memories of good times
  • location has a protective power
  • Impact of others
  • Tercets
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Flag (4)

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  • Shift in tone when describing the Flag
  • Collective pronoun
  • Ubiquitous and integrated everywhere
  • idiom; lacks self awareness
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Flag context (2)

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  • Logue poem is satirical on the importance placed on nationalism
  • Written after devolution referendum
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The Steelworks (3)

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  • Bathos
  • Lexical field of factory work
  • Defeatist attitude- plosive sounds
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Drinking with Hitler (5)

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  • Vignette
  • Characterised as distasteful and predatory
  • heavy and uncomfortable atmosphere
  • intrusive male domination
  • quatrains allow narration
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4 movements in the Scale of 2 (5)

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  • Written in style of TS Elliot
  • Images of symmetry and union
  • need for connection and influence of love
  • unsettling imagery- fragility
  • unexpected and abrupt nature
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Liable to floods (4)

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  • Personification/feminisation of the river
  • weather described through military terms
  • Parallel- weather reflects experience of war
  • Anaphora, rhythmic feel, disorientation of the soldiers
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Liable to Floods context

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Moelwynion Mountain range

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History (3)

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  • addresses reader directly
  • descriptive imagery, immersion
  • 2 line stanza of slate/book; renders the moment transformational
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Amazon (5)

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  • composite figure, sensitive to female issue
  • Phonetics reflects experience
  • temporal shift
  • mind fragmented
  • anaphora
  • missing breast, symbol of strength, empowering
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LA Evening (5)

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  • Vignette; Jean Simmons
  • Mood nostalgic; ennui
  • Juxtaposition of the movement v stillness
  • 3rd person- detached and disconnected
  • Reminiscent tone
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Skirrid Fawr (4)

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  • 2 Line stanzas, balance and duality
  • Personifies/ Feminises the mountain
  • Links to epigraph/ evokes collection title
  • Metaphor of symmetry
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Drinking with Hitler context

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Chenjerai “Hitler” Hunzvi served as Chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association

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