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POETRY FLASHCARDS
Cards in this deck (9)
- 1A WIFE IN LONDON (LOVE/WAR) -An ironic poem about a woman who finds out her husband has died then receives a letter from him telling her ho he is looking forward to seeing her again. -The routine is the same each day - nothing has changed. -Dark, mysterious imagery suggests loss of life & happiness. 'He - has fallen - in the far South Land' 'Page-full of his hoped return/...And of new love that they would learn' LINK: The ManhuntTHE MANHUNT
(LOVE/WAR)
-Describes how a woman (Laura) tends for her husband (Eddie) after he is injured during a war.
-The couple used to be intimate but this injury has harmed them both OR they have been brought closer together.
-Military imagery describes injuries suffered by Eddie.
-Describes the PTSD Eddie suffers.
'the fractured rudder of shoulder blade'
'a sweating, unexploded mine/buried deep in his mind'
LINK: Dulce Et Decorum Est - 2DEATH OF A NATURALIST (TIME/CHILDHOOD) -'Death' describes a loss of childhood innocence. -Lots of juxtaposition of calm and grotesque imagery - 'warm thick slobber'. -Tone change between stanzas - growing up and maturing. -Reflecting on bad memories - sort of the opposite of 'The Prelude'. 'But best of all was the warm thick slobber/Of frogspawn' 'The great slime kings/Were gathered there for vengeance' LINK: The PreludeSONNET 43
(LOVE)
-A woman describes how much she loves her husband.
-Subverts traditional love poems as the woman puts the man on the pedestal.
-Uses religious imagery to show how eternal her love is.
-Feels like a prayer OR wedding vows.
'I love thee to the depth and breadth and height/my soul can reach'
'I shall but love thee better after death.'
LINK: Valentine - 3HAWK ROOSTING (POWER/NATURE) -Describes how a hawk abuses his absolute power over the forest - arrogant and narcissistic. -Metaphor for Hitler's reign of terror in Germany - overused his status. -The hawk is presented as a god, making it seem omnipotent and immovable. -Has power over life and death - 'allotment of death' 'It took the whole of Creation/To produce my foot, my each feather' 'My eye has permitted no change./I am going to keep things like this.' LINK: OzymandiasLONDON
(WAR/PLACE)
- A political message about the corruption of London.
-Messages of revolt and rebellion - ideas of the downtrodden rising up against their oppressors.
-Corruption in the Church - anti-organised religion.
-Romantic themes.
'And mark in every face I meet/Marks of weakness, marks of woe.'
'Every black'ning Church appalls;/And the hapless Soldier's sigh/Runs in blood down Palace walls.'
LINK: Living Space - 4TO AUTUMN (NATURE) -Love letter personifying Autumn as a woman. -Summer is plentiful, and time seems to stand still. -Autumn could represent how Keats was nearing the end of his life - he might have known he had TB. -Lots of sensory description - bringing you there with him. 'Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep./Drows'd with the fume of poppies' 'Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;/And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn' LINK: She Walks in BeautyTHE SOLDIER
(WAR)
-Political propaganda about how great it is to fight for England.
- Religious imagery - ideas of washing off sin by fighting for your country.
-A patriotic death is a redemption from sin.
-Sonnet form.
-England is depicted as happy and holy.
-Rupert Brooke fought and died on the Western Front - he wrote the poem in 1914.
'A body of England's, breathing English air'
'In heart at peace, under an English heaven.'
LINK: Dulce Et Decorum Est - 5AFTERNOONS (TIME/NATURE) -Dark satire about society - melancholy undertones. -Every day seems the same. -Children push their parents to the side and chain them up in their lives - they only live for their children. -Love fades with age - afternoon represents middle age (similar with 'To Autumn'). 'In the hollows of afternoons/Young mothers assemble/At swing and sandpit/Setting free their children.' 'Something is pushing them/To the side of their own lives.' LINK: As Imperceptibly as GriefSHE WALKS IN BEAUTY
(LOVE)
-Lord Byron describes the beauty he sees in his cousin by marriage.
-Romantic influences - compares her to nature and the beauty of the world.
-Emphasises the contrast between light and dark - her sweetness is juxtaposed by Byron's dark thoughts OR she has two sides.
-Describes how perfect she is.
'Thus mellowed to that tender light/Which heaven to gaudy day denies.'
'A mind at peace with all below,/A heart whose love is innocent!'
LINK: To Autumn - 6DULCE ET DECORUM EST (WAR) -Cynical and anti-war - makes use of the phrase 'Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori', meaning 'how sweet it is to die for your country'. -Describes a gas attack and how one man dies horrifically. -Owen thought that war was a waste of lives and affected too many innocent people. -He turned the phrase on its head by making it seem like a dishonourable death. 'deaf even to the hoots/Of gas shells dropping softly behind' 'He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning' LINK: The ManhuntLIVING SPACE
(PLACE)
-Describes slum life - higgledy-piggledy houses, no straight lines, everything is jumbled up and connected.
-Unique -nothing fits together.
-Discusses the fragility of faith - life is a delicate gift, and appears in the most unlikely of places.
-No rhyme scheme and irregular line length represent themes in the poem.
'Into this rough frame,/someone has squeezed/a living space'
'as if they were/the bright, thin walls of faith'
LINK: London - 7OZYMANDIAS (POWER/TIME) -Uses an ancient ruler as a metaphor for the ruling classes of the time. -Everything eventually succumbs to time and is destroyed - nothing is eternal. -Even the mightiest of rulers will fall. -Lots of imagery of decay - only fragments remain. ''My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 'Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away.' LINK: Hawk RoostingAS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF
(LIFE/NATURE/TIME)
-Uses the seasons as a metaphor for life.
-The end of Summer shows how Dickinson is entering middle-age.
-She is isolated - Dickinson was a recluse.
-She believes she didn't deserve niceties as she rejected people.
-Regretful about the passing of time.
'As imperceptibly as Grief/The Summer lapsed away'
'A courteous, yet harrowing Grace/As Guest, that would be gone'
LINK: Afternoons - 8MAMETZ WOOD (WAR) -Describes the digging up of the bodies of Welsh soldiers who fought in Belgium. -Written many years after the war - view in hindsight. -Ideas of wasted youth - images of fragility show how immature the soldiers were. -Soldiers lives were short and underappreciated - they died for no reason. 'a broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm' 'As if the notes they had sung/have only now, with this unearthing, slipped from their absent tongues.' LINK: The ManhuntCOZY APOLOGIA
(LOVE)
-Defending Dove's love for her husband (she was African-American, he was white German).
-It's not a perfect love, but she doesn't care - 'We're content'.
-Old loves were worthless and had no substance - this is real.
-Religious imagery makes the love seem justified.
'I could pick anything and think of you'
'To keep from melancholy.../I fill this stolen time with you'
LINK: Sonnet 43 - 9THE PRELUDE (CHILDHOOD) -Looking back on fond childhood memories of ice skating with friends. -Wordsworth was young and carefree - everything was exciting. -Becomes melancholy - he is alone, but he doesn't understand the feeling. -Longs to return to that time. 'All shod with steel,/We hiss'd along the polished ice, in games/Confederate' 'Into the tumult sent an alien sound/Of melancholy, not unnoticed' LINK: Death of a NaturalistVALENTINE
(LOVE)
-Describes love in an unconventional way - uses the metaphor of an onion.
-Mentions how love has many layers, and how it should be honest and realistic.
-Shows that love is not perfect.
-She will always love her partner - truthful love is the best kind of love.
'I give you an onion/It is a moon wrapped in brown paper'
'Its scent will cling to your fingers,/cling to your knife.'
LINK: Sonnet 43
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