Unseen Poetry Flashcards
Which postmodern poems present the mundane/everyday experience? Give six.
- The Orange by Wendy Cope
- Giving Up Smoking by Wendy Cope
- After the Lunch by Wendy Cope
- Flowers by Wendy Cope
- Cut by Sylvia Plath
- Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper by Sylvia Plath
Which Cope poems use a comedic tone? Give two.
- Valentine
- Giving Up Smoking
Which postmodern poems have open sexuality? Give two.
- Celia, Celia by Adrian Mitchell
- Dea Ex Machina by John Updike
Which postmodern poems present homosexual love? Give two.
- Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy
- Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
Which modern poems defy convention? Give three and their messages.
- Sonet II by Edna St. Vincent Millay: Time does not heal all things.
- On Marriage by Kahlil Gibran: Marriage should be a unity of two lives, not making one.
- Unfortunate Coincidence by Dororthy Parker: Men make false commitments and have affairs. Satire and wit.
Which Victorian poems employ the use of the Gothic? Give two.
- After A Journey by Thomas Hardy
- The Voice by Thomas Hardy
Ghostly females.
Give two female Victorian poets.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Christina Rossetti
Which Romantic poems employ nature imagery? Give five and explain how.
- The Clod and the Pebble by William Blake: eponymous personas represent two different kinds of lovers.
- Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley: Nature portrayed as lovers to explore love’s nature.
- First Love by John Clare: Using nature to understand love.
- A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns: Roses as a conceit for love.
- So We’ll Go No More a Roving by Lord Byron: Moonlight as a setting for love.
What does William Wordsworth say on the aim of Romantic poetry?
“ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect”
Which Restoration poems are dedicational in style? Give four.
- To Celia by Benjamin Jonson
- To Cloris by Charles Sedley
- To Amarantha by Richard Lovelace
- To Lucasta by Richard Lovelace
Which 17th century poems urge female sexuality and how? Give two.
- Song by Edmund Waller
- To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick
Both urge women to abandon chastity and be sexually active whilst they are young and beautiful.
What are features of Metaphysical poetry? Give four.
- Nature conceits
- The unifying of heterogeneous concepts
- Unifying passionate emotion and logical argument
- Rhetoric
Who coined the term Metaphysical?
- 1780 critic Samuel Johnson
Which two Donne poems employ colonial imagery?
- The Good-Morrow: Maps and geographical language to express grandness of love
- The Sunne Rising: Referencing India and the spice trade.
Which three Donne poems employ rhetoric and how?
- The Good-Morrow: Asking what they did before they fell in love.
- Woman’s Constancy: Assuming why a woman will reject him.
- The Canonization: Questioning why he shouldn’t love.
