Structure of poems Flashcards
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Languages and structure of ‘Holy Thursday’ ?
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- The use of regular stanzas with regular rhythm and rhyme to reflect the regimented, controlled way in which they walk into the church as well as the comparison to the Thames water - the flow
- Open vowel sounds
- Religious imagery
- Contrasts of the children and aged men
- Similes
- Sense of building force as children sing
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Languages and structure of ‘Equilibrium’ ?
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- Written in couplets, giving a sense of structure/balance = equilibrium
- Last two lines of the poem indented, makes the poem seem off balance ( opposite + equilibrium )
- Emphasised by no rhyming couplets being in the last two sentences
- Metaphors frequently employed to show grandfather counting down time to death
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Languages and structure of ‘The Bluebell’ ?
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- Pathetic fallacy
Personification
Iambic tetrameter - Rhyming pattern falters at the end = breaks and therefore more Impactful
- Long first stanza , an anchor point in comparison to other stanzas with 4 lines
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Languages and structure of ‘Midnight on the Great Western’ ?
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- 5 lines in each stanza
- First two lines are about the boy
- the last two lines are about the speaker ( Hardy )
- Has a regular rythm that emulates steady rythym of thr train
- Immagery and pathetic fallacy show Hardy’s viewpoint and observations
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Languages and structure of ‘Prayer’ ?
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- Begins with first heard words, ends with last heard words
- Caesura’s and dramatic pauses employed
- Italy reflect words spoken in prayer
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Languages and structure of ‘Happy Birthday Moon’ ?
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- Pantoun structure
- Repetition creates slow, stagnant and halted progress reflecting child’s inability to undertand and progres as well as persistnet dad and struggle
- Sibilance reflects the slur of the boy
- pronoun - reflects change in connection over poem
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Languages and structure of ‘ Out,Out- ‘ ?
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- Written in blank verse
- Uninterepted lines reflect montonous and regular job
- Reflects thr emotionless, lack of change even though there is a dramatic event
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Languages and structure of ‘ Tea With Our Grandmother’ ?
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- First 2 stanzas talking about her grandmas
- Last 2 stanzas talking about Basil’s grandmas
- Imagery
- Metaphors and alliteration
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Languages and structure of ‘Baby Song’ ?
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- Each stanza is two lines
- 7 sets of rhyming couplets mimicks childish and simplistic view of the world
- Regular rhyme
- Towards the end, the rythme is incongruent and repeats begining reflecting the ocntrast of being outside and inside the womb ( Juxtaposition )
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Languages and structure of ‘You’re’ ?
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- Stanza has 9 lines = symbolic to 9 months of pregnancy
- Imagery = speculative/ thoughtful
- Written in free verse ( reflecting her uncertain feelings )
- Metaphor/simile
- Assonance
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Languages and structure of ‘Cold Knap Lake ‘ ?
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- Narrative poem
- Becomes both a ballad and a sonnet
- Expanded metaphor of lake as memory/ mind
- Pronoun ‘we’ and ‘I’ to portray trouble and struggle recollecting the memory.
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Languages and structure of ‘My First Weeks’ ?
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- Alliteration if ‘l’ sounds
- immagery of paradise and holliness
- monosylabic words
- metaphors for breast as significant features or ‘world’ - source of care and nourishment
- sensory language
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Languages and structure of ‘Venus’s-flytraps’ ?
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- Disjointed ideas
- Repetition to show the idea of youth and remind it is the perspective of a child
- In correct grammar to further stress youth
- Short, vlipped-sentences rpresent the simplistic and shallow perspective of a hcild - observations but no undertsanding
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Languages and structure of ‘Love’ ?
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- Pome flows through naturally, a journey in each stanza
- Each stanza has 5 lines = regularity
- Smooth progression
- Imagery / sensory
- Simile + metaphor
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Languages and structure of ‘ Theme for English B ‘ ?
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- Written in free verse
- hyphens illustrate confusion and disjointed thinking when coming up witha solution and discivering his identiy
- List to illustrate his basic likes / hobbies and demonstrate the stupidity of racial division by showing universal humanity
- Final and ipening sentence are a loop, the final is the conlcusion to the piece stated in the begining
