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This Poetry Anthologies notes page gathers user-made notes on poems and relationships, from First Love to Belfast Confetti. With over 40 notes by more than 20 users, it offers school students material for practicing poetry analysis and teachers material for lessons. Pick a note on a poem you are studying and start reading.
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Poem analysis: Love and relationships video notes When we two parted Lord Byron : -Romantic Poet, hugely popular -Early life of poverty , but inherited riches at the age of 10 -Extremely popular with women and conducted a vast number of affairs with women of high sta...
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First Love Overview In this poem, an adult is looking back on a person they had affections for or a relationship with when they were younger. They are trying to remember them and are evidently still fond of them; despite not see...
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King Schahriar revision notes 1: Context. Frame narrative from The Arabian Nights ( One Thousand and One Nights) Derived from oral story telling culture of Asia. Written down during Medieval period by various scholars so no one, identifiable autho...
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AQA POETRY LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS~ WINTER SWANS WINTER SWANSCONTEXT:By Owen Sheers (1974-)Owen Sheers is a Welsh poet born in 1974, so Winter Swans is a contemporary poem. Much of Sheers' poetry draws upon natural landscapes. This poem was taken from a collection c...
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Studied Poetry - Relationships The Manhunt - Simon Armitage (contemporary poetry) The Title: Manhunt suggests someone who is missing or escaped. The word “hunt" suggests an effort, attempt to find them.Context Simon Armitage was born in 1963 i...
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Litany Overview Read the poem. Context A litany is a prayer in a Christian church service in which people at the service respond to lines spoken by the leader of the service (call and response style). A litany can also be a ...
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'Giuseppe' - Roderick Ford Roderick Ford, 'Giuseppe' The speaker recounts a story told to him by his uncle. In Sicily in the Second World War, the villagers and the soldiers are starving. They take 'the only captive mermaid in the world' out of...
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Poems Kamikaze Her father embarked at sunrise with a flask of water, a samurai sword in the cockpit, a shaven head full of powerful incantations and enough fuel for a one-way journey into history but half way there, ...
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Untitled BrothersSaddled with you for the afternoon, me and Paulambled across the threadbare field to the bus stop,talking over Sheffield Wednesday’s chances in the Cupwhile you skipped beside us in your ridiculous tank-top,sp...
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Stafford Afternoons Overview Written from a child's persona The child is outside by themselves going through town. They enter the woods even though they know it is dangerous. They meet a paedophile and run back home. The language used in...
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Untitled CONTEXTThe Manhunt is written by Simon Armitage, about a woman called Laura who's husband has post-traumatic stress syndrome. Eddie (her husband) appears to be broken and lost within himself and Laura is trying to pie...
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My Last Duchess: Portrait of a lady This article is more than 16 years old Did Robert Browning do away with Elizabeth Barrett? Why do his poems so often feature husbands who kill or resent their wives? Elizabeth Lowry looks to his dra...
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'History' John Burnside John Burnside, 'History' In the days after the terrorist attacks on 11th Septemeber 2001, the poet is on the beach with his wife and his son Lucas. The beach is on the east coast of Scotland near an RAF base in Leucha...
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AQA POETRY LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS~ NEUTRAL TONES NEUTRAL TONESCONTEXTBy Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)Thomas Hardy was a Victorian novelist and poet. Much of his poetry is autobiographical, about his relationships and failure of his relationships. He famously wrote a grea...
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'An Easy Passage'- Julia Copus 'An Easy Passage'- Julia Copus On a sunny day, a 13-year-old has just climbed up on to the porch roof of her house while her friend watches from the street below. It is like the girl on the roof sneaked out with...
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AQA POETRY LOVE AND RELATIONSHIP SWINTER SWANS WINTER SWANSCONTEXT:By Owen Sheers (1974-)Owen Sheers is a Welsh poet born in 1974, so Winter Swans is a contemporary poem. Much of Sheers' poetry draws upon natural landscapes. This poem was taken from a collection c...
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Comparisons Hawk Roosting next to of course god america i - this poem is also a political speech. It also examines the language that politicians use and the reasons they use it. The voices in the poems use different means (the ha...
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'Eat Me' - Patience Agbabi 'Eat Me' - Patience Agbabi The speaker recounts the ways in which a man, presumably her partner, insists she eats a lot of food because he likes 'big girls'. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker weighs 30 ...
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'The Lammas Hireling', Ian Duhig Ian Duhig, 'The Lammas Hireling' The speaker of the poem is a farmer. He buys a cheap farm-hand at a fair. The new hireling has a positive influence on the farmer's cattle- he produces double the usual milk. One night...
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'The Deliverer' - Tishani Doshi Tishani Doshi- 'The Deliverer' This short poem sequence tells the story of an Indian newborn baby girl who is abandoned because she is not a boy. The baby is the cared for in a convent in the state of Kerala in India ...
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Material - Ros Barber Material - Ros Barber 'Material' begins with a reflection on the coth handkerchiefs used by the poet's mother. barber associates these handkerchiefs initially with her own childhood, before changing the focus to the w...
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Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass- Simon Armitage Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass- Simon Armitage The poem begins by describing in detail how a chainsaw is prepared- it is taken from its hood, oiled and attached to a power chord. The speaker turns on the chainsaw, w...
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'To My Nine-Year-Old Self'- Helen Dunmore Helen Dunmore, 'To My Nine-Year-Old Self' The speaker imagines that she can meet herself as a child. The poem is addressed to the younger self. The speaker reflects upon the nine-year-old's fun and energetic life, and...
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'A Minor Role'- U.A. Fanthorpe U.A. Fanthorpe, 'A Minor Role' The speaker of the poem is seriously ill. She admits that being ill requires her to play a role to maintain the illusion that everything is okay. Fanthrope also outline the mundane reali...
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'The Gun', Vicki Feaver Vicki Feaver, 'The Gun' The speaker's partner brings a shotgun into the house. It is initially described as resting ominously on a table. It is then used for target practice before being used to kill animals. The gun ...
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How are relationships portrayed in "The Manhunt?" The Manhunt emphasizes the love and care from the wife and the husband. Whilst the husband is both physically and mentally altered, the wife still displays love and devotion towards him. "The Manhunt" primarily focuse...
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the emigree THE EMIGREE CAROL RUMENSTRANSLATIONThere once was a country I left as a childI still remember it very wellI never saw it in difficult timesWhich every place experiencesEven the worst things I hear about itDon't change...
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'Look We Have Coming to Dover!', Daljit Nagra Daljit Nagra, 'Look We Have Coming to Dover!' The poem describes the experience of illegal immigrants as they arrive in Britain. After a journey 'stowed ' on a boat, they work in the illegal labour market, 'unclocked ...
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'Beautiful' - Carol Ann Duffy talks in turn about four iconic and significant women in history - Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana: mainly talks about how their physical features (beauty) have influenced their popularityH...
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brothers - created from Mind Map structure The poem does not use rhyme or have a strict pattern to its rhythm. This is typical of modern poetry. There are three stanzas; they recount three stages of the afternoon. The first stanza sets the scene, sho...
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poem - August 6, 1945 Background… During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945 and the second on August ...
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Praise song - created from Mind Map structureThe poem is based around the first three stanzas of three lines each, which are very similar in format. The fourth stanza begins in the same way as the first three but is extended, bringing attention to the p...
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brothers - created from Mind Map_1 structure The poem does not use rhyme or have a strict pattern to its rhythm. This is typical of modern poetry. There are three stanzas; they recount three stages of the afternoon. The first stanza sets the scene, sho...
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storm on the island storm on the island by seamus heaney ABOUT THE POET seamus heaney 1939 - 2013 northern irish poet early poetry focused on rural life, identity and ancestry published in his first poetry collection - death of a ...
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Belfast Confetti 'Suddenly as the riot squad moved in, it was raining exclamation marks, Nuts, bolts, nails, car-keys. A fount of broken type. And the explosion. Itself - an asterisk on the map. This hyphenated line, a burst of rapid ...
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Poetry anthology notes Loves Philosophy Analysis themes: male speaker persuades female listener to have a sexual relationship with him born 1792 romantic poet wealthy family- went to eton and oxford, set to inherit expelled from...
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Untitled Kamikaze Link to conflict Conflict between the rules and honour of society and the desire to survive and return to family Link to power The power of the Japanese government and the power if family influence the men's ...
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Poetry GCSE The ManhuntBy Simon Armitage After the first phase,after passionate nights and intimate days,only then would he let me tracethe frozen river which ran through his face,only then would he let me explorethe blown hinge ...
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The Prelude - poem One summer evening (led by her) I found &nb...
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