time and place poems

Question 1

‘To Autumn’ - Keats

Answer 1

~ symbolically - time before death
~ romance poet that believes everything is special and unique
~ the sublime - self destructive feeling when you encounter gods natural beauty in nature
~ deep appreciation of the power and beauty of nature
~ recognition of influences of senses and of personal emotion
~ understanding of the deeper meaning of life
~ melancholy - the season is ending however its been a good season

Question 2

‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge’ - Wordsworth

Answer 2

~ beautiful
~ overwhelmed list

Question 3

‘London’ - Blake

Answer 3

~ ‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe’ - grim times
~ ‘In every’ repetition
~ para 2 - trapped in miserable London
~ Imagery
~ ‘chimney sweepers’ - child poverty
~ ‘blackening’ - pollution, not helping the people suffering
~ ‘hapless’ - fighting for their country and monarch that’s not helping the less fortunate suffering
~ ‘infants ear’ - crying from loud cursing
~ ‘plagues’ disgusting
~ Marriage hearse - dead marriage

Question 4

‘I started early - took my dog’ - Emily Dickinson

Answer 4

~ Dash - an unexpected interruption
~ Ballet - narrative love poem
~ Recluse - often had romantic daydreams
~ Enjambment
~ Iambic - regular beat to poem
~ capitals - stylistic at the time
~ Dream like fantasy
~ sexual awakening
~ fantasy of being a mermaid
~ internalised
~ magic realism ‘Mermaids’
~ rhyme
~ ‘me to be a mouse’ - metaphor
~ being touched
~ self discovery/empowerment
~ ‘sea’ personified as a god like man

Question 5

‘Where the picnic was’ - Thomas Hardy

Answer 5

~ ‘was’ - tone of finality and sadness
~ ‘forsaken place’ ominous foreshadowing
~ para 1 going back to the place where the picnic was
~ para 2 day turning cold unwelcoming and grey
~ ! is emotive punctuation
~ ‘shut her eyes’ - euphemism

Question 6

‘Adlestrop’ - Edward Thomas

Answer 6

~ peaceful
~ enjambment
~ dash - train interrupted
~ ‘hissed’ personification
~ silent atmosphere
~ lifeless
~ ‘sky’ compares station to the calm sky

Question 7

‘Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan’ - Moniza Alvi

Answer 7

~ ‘my costume’ - doesn’t feel like she’s meant for the clothes
~ the irreg structure reflects the broken identity

Question 8

‘Hurricane hits England’ - Grace Nichols