Time/nature Flashcards
AS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF- context
- Emily Dickinson
- Poem acts as an elegy for passing of Summer
- Uses Summer as a metaphor for grief
AS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF- how is nature presented?
- A metaphor for human nature
- Cyclical
- Bittersweet
EXCERPT FROM THE PRELUDE- context
- William Wordsworth
- Believed in ‘spots of time’, where we appreciate the world around us more so than normally.
EXCERPT FROM THE PRELUDE- how is nature presented?
- Source of excitement
- Reflection of human spirit
DEATH OF A NATURALIST- context
- Seamus Heaney
- Dad was a flax farmer
- Used to visit a creek after school
DEATH OF A NATURALIST- how is nature presented?
- Initial fascination
- Threatening
- Metaphor for youthhood
TO AUTUMN- context
- John Keats
- Wrote after return from a walk
- Written as an ‘ode’ to Autumn
TO AUTUMN- how is nature presented?
- Abundant
- Harmonic
- Decay
AS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF- “As… the Summer lapsed away”
Starts the poem off by comparing grief and the Summer, which then acts as an extended metaphor for the rest of the poem
AS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF- “Twilight” “Dusk”
Use of light imagery creates a cyclical nature and that grief and depression goes round in a cycle
AS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF- “Morning foreign shone”
Breaks the cycle of grief. ‘Foreign’ suggests that it feels unnatural
AS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF- “Into the beautiful.”
Ends on a positive and hopeful note; the full stop shows that Summer has ended with certainty
EXCERPT FROM THE PRELUDE- “I heeded not the summons”
Youthful excitement and how he rebels by not going home
EXCERPT FROM THE PRELUDE- “,” “;” “:”
Use of caesura shows how breathless and excited he is and how he cannot control his feelings
EXCERPT FROM THE PRELUDE- “Meanwhile”
Poem takes a turning point and sense of sadness and nostalgia surface
