Flashcards
Nature Poems
Cards in this deck (12)
- 1To Autumn - Context- Keats was a romantic poet and wrote about nature and the nature world
- Keats died at 25, he was worried he wouldn't leave an impression on the world, this poem could be his attempt to be remembered - 2To Autumn - Structure- first stanza is a celebration and suggests that autumn begins in a rick and calm way
- in the second stanza, Keats speaks to autumn and makes suggestions that autumn is in no rush to move on
- the final stanza shows change, from autumn to winter. Keats recognises this and accepting he cannot change it. - 3To Autumn - Key Quotations'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness'
- autumn is a season of change but is a calm season
'carless on a granary floor'
- personifies autumn, suggests autumn can be thoughtless in the change it brings
'and gathering swallows twitter in the sky'
- winter is drawing in and time is coming to and end - could represent circle of life - 4Death of a Naturalist - Context- Heaney's four year old brother died in a car accident. The death affected him and a lot of his poems are about loss of innocence
- Heaney grew up on a farm and his poems reflect his upbringing - 5Death of a Naturalist - Structure- First stanza, speaker in the poem is full of enthusiasm and enjoys nature
- last stanza, changes as he becomes more aware of the dangers of the world around him - 6Death of a Naturalist - Key Quotations- 'death' in the title is a metaphor, it symbolises speaker's loss of innocence as he grows up.
- the tone changes on 'then one hot day' and the tone becomes more aware of the danger - 'angry frogs'
- 'spawn would clutch it' shows contrast with when he would collect 'jellied specks' he has grown up and no longer wants to play games of childhood - 7Hawk Roosting - Context- Hughes wrote many poems about the natural world until his death in 1984
- Hughes said the poem wasn't about cruelty - he just wanted to show hawks 'natural way of thinking' - 8Hawk Roosting - Structure- clearly organised structure of six stanzas reflecting hawk's control over his life and land
- steady and calm pace to the poem again mirrors the hawk's measured control over the woodland - he will not be rushed by anyone - 9Hawk Roosting - Key Quotations- 'roosting' suggests the hawk is still, not a swooping bird of prey as we imagine. This gives a sense of the hawk meditating on his powers of destruction
- 'no falsifying dream' the hawk is focussed and not distracted, the tone is smug
- 'allotment of death' sense of control that hawk is playing God throughout the poem - 10Ozymandias - Context- Shelley was a romantic poet and wrote about power of nature
- Shelley was considered to be a 'radical' and Ozymandias reflects this side of his character. He is writing about the dangers of thinking you are invincible, a timeless message - 11Ozymandias - Structure- Poem is a sonnet, although it mixes the two main types of sonnet forms. This could show the broken nature of the statue and Ozymandias' rule
- Majority of poem is through voice of the 'traveller'. As it has no stanzas it is like a long story being told by travellers - 12Ozymandias - Key Quotations- Poem opens in first person as speaker describes a 'traveller' he's met. Use of the adjective 'antique' suggests land he visits is rich with history.
- 'Nothing beside remains' suggests Ozymandias' works crumbled, his civilisations gone and been turned to dust by power of history and time.
- 'The lone and level sands far away' poem is a statement about the insignificance of human beings to passage of time
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- Year 10 English Flashcards on Nature Poems , created by Rhianna Nicoll on 15/01/2019.
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- Rhianna Nicoll · Jan 2019
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