Anthology 8/18 Flashcards

Question

‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ | quote: time

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As imperceptibly as Grief the summer lapsed away

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Our Summer made her light escape into the Beautiful

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Or Nature spending with herself sequestered Afternoon

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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace

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Too imperceptibly at last to seem like Perfidy

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1 stanza | No rhyme scheme

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I heeded not the summons: - happy time it was, indeed, for all of us

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Into the tumult sent an alien sound of melancholy, not unnoticed

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The orange sky of evening died away

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In games confederate, imitative of chace and woodland pleasures

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Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud, the leafless trees, and every icy crag

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1 stanza | No rhyme scheme

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I wander thro’ each charter’d street

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Blasts the new born Infant’s tears, and blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

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Every black’ning Church appals; and the hapless Soldier’s sigh run in blood down Palace walls

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In every cry of every man, in every Infant... , in every voice,... the mind-forg’d manacles I hear

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Near where the charter’d Thames does flow

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4 stanzas, regular | Rhyme scheme, regular

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Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away

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‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’

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Tell that its sculptor... which yet survive

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Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert

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The hand that mocked them

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1 stanza | No rhyme scheme

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‘Ozymandias’ Time: "Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away" Hope: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Growth Vs Deterioration: "Tell that its sculptor... which yet survive" Stability Vs Instability: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert" Trust: "The hand that mocked them" Form and structure: - 1 stanza - No rhyme scheme Context: Percy Bysshe Shelley who only really became famous after his death. This poem was written after he heard about an Italian explorer who had received this statue from a desert Poem type: Nature

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‘As Imperceptibly as Grief’ Time: "As imperceptibly as Grief the summer lapsed away" Hope: "Our Summer made her light escape into the Beautiful" Growth Vs Deterioration: "Or Nature spending with herself sequestered Afternoon" Stability Vs Instability: "A courteous, yet harrowing Grace" Trust: "Too imperceptibly at last to seem like Perfidy" Form and structure: - 1 stanza - No rhyme scheme Context: Emily Dickinson was an American poet. She lived in almost complete isolation in her adult years, but also wrote many letters and poems, usually discussing death and nature Poem Type: Nature

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‘London’ Freedom and Oppression: "Near where the charter’d Thames does flow" Sense of injustice: "Blasts the new born Infant’s tears, and blights with plagues the Marriage hearse" Light Vs Dark: "Every black’ning Church appals; and the hapless Soldier’s sigh run in blood down Palace walls" Hope Vs Hopelessness: "In every cry of every man, in every Infant... , in every voice,... the mind-forg’d manacles I hear" Time passing / Nature: "I wander thro’ each charter’d street" Form and structure: - 4 stanzas, regular - Rhyme scheme, regular Context: William Blake was an English poet and artist who held quite radical social and political views for that time; believing in social and racial equality and questioning the church Poem type: Place

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‘The Prelude’ Freedom and Oppression: "I heeded not the summons: - happy time it was, indeed, for all of us" Sense of injustice: "Into the tumult sent an alien sound of melancholy, not unnoticed" Light Vs Dark: "The orange sky of evening died away" Hope Vs Hopelessness : "In games confederate, imitative of chace and woodland pleasures" Time passing / Nature: "Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud, the leafless trees, and every icy crag" Form and structure: - 1 stanza - No rhyme scheme Context: William Wordsworth came from the Lake District. This poem is an autobiography of key moments from his life, published after his death Poem type: Place

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‘The Soldier’ Suffering: "In that rich earth a richer dust concealed: a dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware" Trauma: "That there’s some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England" Hope vs Hopelessness: "And think, this heart, all evil shed away" Pain and Sadness: "And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness, in hearts at peace, under an English heaven" Strength vs Fragility: "Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home" Form and structure: - 2 stanzas, irregular - Rhyme scheme, irregular Context: Rupert Brooke was an English poet who wrote ‘The Soldier’ when WW1 broke out in 1914, and died in service of the Royal Navy in 1915 Poem type: War

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‘A Wife in London’ Suffering: "His hand, whom the worm now knows" (She suffers) Trauma: "He – has fallen – in the far South land" Hope vs Hopelessness: "Like a waning taper the street-lamp glimmers cold" Pain and Sadness: "In the summer weather, and of new love that they would learn" Strength vs Fragility: "She sits in the tawny vapour" Form and structure: - 4 stanzas, regular - Rhyme scheme, regular Context: Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset. ‘A Wife in London’ was written during the Boer War. He presents war as pointless and destructive Poem type: War

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She walks in beauty Intensity: "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies" Purity vs Impurity: "How pure, how dear their dwelling-place" Light: "Thus mellowed to that tender light which heaven to gaudy day denies" True love / Perfection vs Imperfection: “Had half impaired the nameless grace which waves in every raven tress, or softly lightens o(v)er her face" Honesty: "But tell of days in goodness spent, a mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent" Form and structure: - 3 stanzas, regular - Rhyme scheme, regular Context: Lord Byron was a popular English poet, also known for his lavish lifestyle and scandalous affairs. The poem was originally written to be set to music Poem type: Love

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- Sonnet 43 Intensity: "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height" Purity vs Impurity: "I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise" True love / Perfection vs Imperfection: "Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death" Light: "I love thee to the level of every day’s most quiet need, by sun and candlelight" Honesty: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" Form and structure: - 14 lines, sonnet - Rhyme scheme, regular Context: Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in Country Durham, she wrote this poem as part of a series of sonnets about her future husband, Robert Browning, called Sonnets from the Portuguese Poem type: Love

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- 2 stanzas, irregular | - Rhyme scheme, irregular

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Poem type: | War

Anthology 8/18 Flashcards

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