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Structure/form Poetry In Tennyson Flashcards

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Mariana

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Regular form- stasis

Iambic tetrameter

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Memoriam

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Series of elegies form totality
Arch rhymed quatrains give form sense of unity reflects fluctuating movement of grief-reflects stasis cycle
Abba
Regular rhyme scheme
Iambic tetrameter, octosyllabic
Despite structural restrictions very powerful emotions conveyed

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Tithonus

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Blank verse

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The Outcast

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Regular form- reflects stasis

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What are the 3 areas which are covered by In memoriam in the nature of grievance

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Personal, universal and cosmic/evolutionary

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the charge of the light brigade

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Ballad-narrative poem
Refrain and rhythm
Simplicity and bluntness in metre
Use of repetition give movement and pace
Short lines voice rapidity
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Golden years

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Blank verse

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How does golden year use naturalistic imagery to reflect the themes?

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Annual movement of universe contextualised within deeper sense of geological time, through metaphors such as ‘ebb and flow’ of the oceans tide

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How is tennysons fantasy in the golden years, interrupted?

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Drifitng away from the beauty of Snowdonia speaker registers how landscape is changing because of mans industry. Sounds of dynamite movingly through onomatopoeia, parathyroid and repetition of hard consonants

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How is Vivienne described?

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Alliterative and deploys internet half rhymes and assonance

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Merlin and Vivien

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Blank verse

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Maud

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Dramatic monologue: varying metre and mood
Sonnet form: hero faced with new disturbing experience
Protocinematic form

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How is the romantic scene in maud described?

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Gentle romanticism, jealous possessiveness

Sonorous with half and full rhymes. Imagery of nature reflects lovers state of mind

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How is the speakers madness reflected in maud?

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Speakers hysterical outbursts speech rhythm of madness
Hallucinogenic quality: my heart is a handful of dust
Nightmarish sense of delusion combined with allegory of death

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How is sound, repetition, onomatopoeia and assonance used to convey limited reality?

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Creates busy rhythm to reflect brain

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What is paradoxical about mauds vulgar conclusion?

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Find peace in war-new moral self hood through national identity

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To E Fitzgerald

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Epistolary form

Rhyming couplets in 8 syllable lines

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Northern Farmer

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Heroic couplets, set in quatrains

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What is the refrain of Northern farmer?

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Lass lass with long round vowels- becomes refrain

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Crossing the bar

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Line length imitates tides rolling back and forth

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What effect does emjambment have in In Memoriam

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Meditative feeling as if thoughts run on

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Lotos eaters

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Spenserian narrative stanza

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What is the signifanxe of the word and in his poetry?

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Dream-like state of reliving the past

Inactive

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What influence is shown by the pre raphaelites

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State of stasis and suspended animation.
Readily lent itself to Pre-Raphaelites
Aimed at high realist detail and typological detail

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How does Tennyson use Parnassians style?

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Extensive use of classicism ad romanticism
Overall atmosphere of cultural tradition and memory produced through allusion
Archaic language-creating another poetic world

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Locksley hall

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Trochaic heroic couplets or trochaic heptameter

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Inverting syntax

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Putting verb before subject slows down pace

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How are metaphors of geological change applies to the social sphere?

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erosion of the aristocracy as a result of the global gradual change

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Utililitarian values

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When ever hour must sweat her sixty minutes to the death

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The splendour falls

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Lyric 
Rhyme
Phonetic intensives 
Figurative language
Alliteratipn and assonance
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Cacophony-harsh

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Euphony-lyrical

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Tears, idle, tears

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Elegiac poem

Blank verse

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How is the mood in now sleeps the crimson petal achieved?

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Dreamy and soft, inviting and sensous with a number of liquid consonance
Opposition of passion and purity
Contrasting colours
Figurative language

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Synillance

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English Literature: Victorian (5 decks)

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