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history - john burnside Flashcards

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irregular form

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confusion of poet

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enjambment

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loss and outpouring of emotions which the speaker cannot regulate

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‘today, as we flew the kites’

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temporal deixis - contrasts history

innocent

childlike

connotations of freedom - kites were banned by the taliban

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‘sand spinning off in ribbons along the beach’

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sibilance - links to the planes

natural beauty - contrasts 9/11

mirrors twin towers

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‘gasoline smell from leuchars’

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more noticeable - paranoid

tense atmosphere - mirrors how people felt

everyone is affected

sounds like lucas who is unaware of what is happening

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‘quail-grey in the distance’

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mood of the poem - pathetic fallacy

caesura - everyone is affected

society makes tragedy

dull - no emotion because people are so shocked

future is uncertain - can’t see what’s coming

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‘people jogging, or stopping to watch’

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jogging has connotations of being relaxed #

calm

paranoid

people - separation and distance

community?

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‘turned in the morning light’

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innocence lost

beautiful imagery

disjointed from the current events of the poem

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‘muffled dread of what may come’

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emotive

fear

drowning it out - don’t want to acknowledge it

knows something is going to happen

represents billions of people

uncertainty

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‘i knelt down in the sand with lucas’

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praying

desperation

looking for answers

naïve and innocent child

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‘finding evidence of life in all this’

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contrasts the war

uncovering bodies - death

irony?

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‘smudges of weed and flesh on tideworn stone’

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natural things - echoes 9/11

imagery

semantic field of ocean

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‘at times i think what makes us who were are’

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philosophical tone

thinking deeply - that’s what history causes us to do

iambic pentameter - clarity

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‘something lost between the world we own and what we dream about behind the names’

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the essential nature of humans are our aspirations

material world that we live in

aspirations connect us

we want to be happy with our lives

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‘lines raised in the wind…fixed and anchored to the shore’

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dream like - links to the kites

society’s tragedy

trapped and vulnerable

anchored to reality

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‘confined by property’

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house

stuck

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‘what tethers us to gravity and light has most to do with distance and shapes we find in water’

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nature is part of history

everything comes from water

the answers to our questions are in nature

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‘reading from the book of silt and tides’

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we learn from nature - gives us answers

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‘rose or petrol blue of jellyfish and sea anemone combining with a child’s first nakedness’

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humanity is the cause of nature’s suffering

intangible things

blends into 1

humans are nature

going back to innocence

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‘sometimes i am dizzy with the fear of losing everything’

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collective emotion

temporal deixis

violence can destroy valuable things

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‘we trade so much to know the virtual we scarcely register the drift and tug of other bodies’

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meaningless

do we care about nature?

we don’t live in the moment anymore`

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‘scarcely apprehend the moment as it happens: shifts of light and weather’

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children live in the moment

the world is transient

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‘local forms of history; the fish lodged in the tide beyond the sands’

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personal history

stuck in debris

part of us

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‘but this is the problem: how to be alive in all this gazed upon and cherished world do no harm’

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we don’t know how to live

ironic - lack of respect caused tragedy

how to see the world without ruining it

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‘toddler on a beach sifting wood’

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go back to innocence- simplicity and curiosity

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‘goldfish carried home from fairgrounds’

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man and nature working together

25
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‘puzzled by the pattern on a shell’

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examining history

alliteration - harsh events in history

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‘kite plugged into the sky’ all nerve an line’

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connected to nature

scared for the future

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‘patient; afraid; but still, through everything attentive to the irredeemable’

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can’t get back the moment

appreciate the moment, it will never come back

we fear what we lost, but we can preserve what’s meaningful

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headlines

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we fear uncertainty

innocence should be protected

the world in always changing

life is to be lived in the present

we should appreciate the moment

humans will always be part of nature

humans have lost the ability to connect with the natural world

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