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Time Poems
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- 1Afternoons - Context- Written in the 1960's
- Gender roles were more explicit
-He never married
- He was described as negative and miserable. - 2What is Afternoons about?It is a representation of women's lives on a newly built council estate.
- 3How is time used in the poem?Nature is used to mirror the passing of time, "summer is fading" and "their beauty has thickened".
- 4What does Afternoons link to best?- To Autumn
- 5The structure of Afternoons- 3 non-rhymed stanzas of 8 lines each
- to show how mundane and boring the mothers lives were. - 6"mothers assemble"Shows the gender roles of the time period
- 7"estateful of washing"Imagery
reflects the hollowness of their lives. - 8"Our Wedding"Uses italics to show how it has been pushed aside like the words.
- 9"lying"The double meaning could suggest that the importance of the "wedding" has been abandoned. Could also mean that their "wedding" could have been a lie which could reflect why Larkin never got married.
- 10"them" "their"Collective pronouns
Uses this throughout all three stanzas to place emphasise on the subject of the poem. - 11"leaves fall in ones and twos"Suggests some sort of decay is happening in the women's lives slowly.
- 12To Autumn - Context- saw life as everything coming in abundance
- wrote it a year after being diagnosed with TB.
-Famous for his poetry that is based on his observations on nature and life. - 13What does To Autumn link to?Afternoons
- 14The form of the poemIt is an ode - highlighting and praising the time of the year
He uses an extra line in each stanza. 11 instead of 10. It echos that there is an abundance of stuff. - 15The structure of the poemFirst 4 lines in each stanza have an abab rhyme scheme.
the three stanzas also trace a pattern through Autumn. - 161st stanzaTopic - Ripeness and fruitfulness
Season - Early autumn/end of summer
Time of day - Morning
Sense - Touch - 172nd StanzaTopic - A time for labour and for rest
Season - Mid-autumn
Time of day - Afternoon
Sense - Sight - 183rd StanzaTopic - Decline into winter
Season - Late autumn/turning to winter
Time of day - Twilight
Sense - Hearing - 19Key Quotations- The last line ‘And gathering swallows twitter in the sky’ shows that winter is drawing in and time is coming to an end – it could represent the circle of life.
- 'Thee sitting careless on a granary floor’ by personifying autumn it suggests that autumn can be a season which can be quite thoughtless in the changes it brings - 20Context of 'Ozymandias'- Written in 1818
- Ozymandias is another name for Ramses II , one of Egypt's most famous pharaohs.
- inspired by the recent unearthing of the statue of Ramses II.
- Thinks he is powerful but nature is more powerful. - 21What is the poem about?The speaker meets an unknown ‘traveller’ who has journeyed from a land far away and tells the speaker his story.
On his travels he came across a ruined and broken statue in the desert. The statue was once a huge monument to Ozymandias who was a tyrannical and harsh ruler.
The traveller implies that Ozymandias has the statue made of himself and the sculptor made it deliberately look cold and sneering.
The traveller tells the speaker that, as well as there being not much left of the statue, there is also now nothing left surrounding it.
The statue now stands alone as the ‘sands stretch far away. - 22What does the poem link to?- To Autumn
- Mametz Wood - 23Structure of the poem- The poem is a sonnet, although it mixes the two main types of sonnet form. This could show the broken nature of the statue and Ozymandias' rule.
- Being told by the voice of the 'traveller'. It has no stanzas so it is like a story. - 24Key Quotations- Nouns 'decay' and 'wreck' symbolise the legacy of Ozymandias.
- 'Antique' suggests age - the events happened a long time ago.
- 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;' irony since his face is in the floor forgotten over time. - 25What is the context in Mametz Wood?- Battle of the Some
Thought it would take a few hours but took 5 days.
- 4,000 casualties with 600 dead
- Sacrifice and bravery never really acknowledged. - 26What is it about?All of the deaths in the battle of the Some and how young the soldiers were.
- 27What does it link to?- Ozymandias
- 28How is time used in this poem?Time is used by
- 29Structure/ form of Mametz Wood- 7 stanzas, all with 3 lines each
- The unevenness of the lines may suggest the uneven ground
- Consistent like a nursery rhyme - 30Key Quotes- "absent tongues" - they can't speak out since they have lost their voice
- "Walk, not run" - So young that they are still being told what to do and how to act.
- "china plate" "birds egg" - Shows how fragile they are since they are so young and died before they were meant to. - 31Context of death of a Naturalist- Born in Northern Ireland 1939
- Oldest of 9
- Father was a farmer
- About countryside and farm life of his childhood - 32What is it about?It is about the innocence of childhood and growing up with experience.
- 33Links to?-
- 34How is time used?Time is used to show how people change from being a child to an adult through the frogspawn.
- 35Structure/ form of Death of a Naturalist.- 2 stanzas
- 1st stanza is about childhood innocence
- 2nd stanza is about being an adult with experience - 36Key Quotes- "Death of a Naturalist" - symbolic of the poets loss of innocence. Also the 'Naturalist' symbols how he can't be delighted by the natural world
- "Spawn would clutch it" - he is afraid of it and is worried that he won't escape it. - 37Context - As Imperceptibly as grief- Born Amherst, Massachusetts
- lived in 'Homestead' main street for all but 15 years.
- Spent a lot of time in her bedroom
- Rarely left it after 1865
- lived next to a graveyard - 38What is it about?It is about the passing of summer to autumn and she compares her grief to this.
- 39What does this poem link to?- Afternoons
- 40How is time used in this poem?- The passing of summer shows how sad she is due to it being a sad and dark time.
- Through nature - 41Structure/ form of this poem- One unbroken stanza to represent her continuous stream of thought.
- - 42What key Quotes does she use?- "-" dashes can represent her disjointed mind.
- "Into the beautiful" - Positive ending. Implies that her final destination is heaven.
- "Dusk drew in earlier" - This suggests an inevitable progression into darkness. It implies that she feels her depression or death is inevitable.
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- GCSE (Poems) English Literature Fichas sobre Time Poems, creado por Helen Johnson el 15/01/2019.
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