Links With All Poems Flashcards
Nature
Sounds of the Day -Natural world used to examine endings, intrusion
Memorial – surprising images of nature
Aunt Julia – crofting existence close to nature, a relic of the past – like the shark
Basking Shark – natural evolution
Visiting Hour – out of place, disconnected, fragility of patient
Assisi – imagery of dwarf and tourists, St Francis
Nature Imagery – Sounds of the Day, Territory –Basking Shark, Aunt Julia
Life death and suffering
Life Death and Suffering
Visiting Hour – imagery of dying is monstrous,
Assisi - dwarf has benefit of being alive – suffering
Memorial – walking elegy – poetic voice grieves for his wife
Sounds of the Day
Coping with death, loss, separation – Memorial, Sounds of the Day
Loss – Sounds of the Day, Memorial, Visiting Hour, Aunt Julia
symbols
Symbols
Basking Shark – monster, but reflecting on who the monster really is.
Assissi – dwarf is a ruined temple – a symbol of need and charity
Techniques connect all poems
- repetition to emphasise a point,
- alliteration to highlight certain word or sound
- assonance to highlight a vowel sound
- parallel sentence structure to draw attention to the contrast
- Onomatopoeia to recreate a sound, vivid memory or experience
- Enjambment to highlight the word at the end of the line, but to run on deliberately – can reflect speed of progress.
- Rhythm of lines to reflect action of the poems
- Unusual images to describe something that has been life changing or shocking
- Word choice that recreates a scene
- Clever use of Imagery – (similes, metaphors, personification)
- Rhyme to highlight sounds or words
Sympathy and empathy
Visiting Hour, Memorial, Aunt Julia, Assisi, Sounds of the Day
Fragility
Memorial, Contrasts with Aunt Julia
Monster
glass fang – Assisi, Basking Shark
Darkness, hopelessness, silence
Memorial, Aunt Julia, Sounds of the Day
numbness
Sound of the Day, Visiting Hour, Memorial
Prejudice
Basking Shark, Aunt Julia
Ideas – recreating a memory, nostalgia, celebrating a special moment, experience
– Memorial, Aunt Julia, Basking Shark, Sounds of the Day, Memorial
Survival
Aunt Julia, Memorial
inability to communicate
Visiting Hour, Aunt Julia
Nostalgia – looking back to past –
Basking Shark, Memorial, Sounds of the Day, Aunt Julia
distance
– Visiting Hour, Memorial, Sounds of the Day, Basking Shark, Aunt Julia
Visiting Hour Main Theme and Presentation of It
Facing up to mortality
- He is angry that he can do nothing in the face of death
- He feels isolated by death and feels profound loss
Image of decay
“A withered hand trembles on its stalk”
“wasted of colour”
“white cave of forgetfulness” – metaphor, suggests the isolation of the woman
Quote to show the character in visiting hour
I will not feel, I will not feel, until I have to.
Striking word choice in visiting hour
Striking words
“Guzzling”
means eat or drink (something) greedily.
fruitless fruits” – oxymoron, captures the poet’s despair
structure in visiting hour
Turning point
Ward 7
Free Verse – suits the subject matter as the poet is confused
tone in visiting hour
Despair
Bitterness
Aunt Julia Main Theme and ideas surrounding it
Regret
Anger –”that by the time he was able to speak any Gaelic his aunt was dead and the chance was gone
Nature-
“But I hear her still, welcoming me in a seagull’s voice across a hundred yards of peats apes and lazy beds”
Imagery in Aunt Julia
Decay
She lay silenced in the absolute black of a sandy grave
Nature
“winds pouring wetly round house ends” – the place is bleak
setting in aunt julia
Hers was the only house where I’ve lain at night in a box bed, listening to crickets
character in aunt julia
She was buckets .. She was winds … She was brown eggs
