poetry Flashcards
home thoughts from abroad- 1845- Robert Browning
-positive imagery, ‘blossomed pear tree’, ‘scatters on the clover’
-rhyming scheme
-exclamation marks, ‘and all the swallows’
-general (‘oh, to be in England’) to specific (where my blossom -pear tree’)
Stewart island- 1971- flour Adcock
-violent vocab, ‘bitten by sandflies’, ‘mad seagull’, jab its claws
-conversational tone, ‘as for me’
-sylabbles and enjambment
-objective to personal
presents from Pakistan -2000- Moniza alvi
-use of clothes, ‘candy-striped glass bangles’, ‘embossed slippers’
-imagery, ‘I was aflame’, ‘alien in the sitting room’
-disjoint lines
-enjambment
-beautiful to feeling like a beggar
nothing’s changed- 1994- tatamkhulu afrika
-monosyllabic
-imagery, ‘crunch in tail, ‘crushed ice white’
-enjambment
-repetition, ‘glass’
-free verse
to autumn
-scenes
-personification
-rhyming
-11 line stanza
-ode
composed upon Westminster bridge
-personification
-hyperbole
-word of power
-rhyme-sonnet
-repetition
-sonnet
london
-negative imagery
-rhyme
-stanza size
-repetition
-volta
I started early- took my dog
-positive and rich language
-hyphens
-stanza 3
-simple form
where the picnic was
-symbolism
-pathetic fallacy
-rhyming scheme
-movement from past to present
adlestrop
-personification
-allitereation
-imagery
-rhyming
-simple sentences
-conversational beginning
-4 lines 4 stanzas
-specific place to all of England
first flight
-oxymoron
-over all structure
-enjambment
-seen to people to theoretical
hurricane hits england
-imagery
-enjambment
-free verse
postcard from a travel snob
-conversational tone
-rhyme scheme
-enjambment
-postcard
in Romney marsh
-personification
-old language
-imagery
-rhyming scheme
-repetition
-simple form
absence
-strong discription
-aggressive and dramatic vocab
-rhyme scheme
-5 line stanzas
