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Patrick Kavanagh Flashcards

1
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what are the two distinct phases of Kavanagh’s poetic career?

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  1. the Monaghan poems
  2. The Dublin poems
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what is illustrated in the Monaghan poems?

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the love/ hate relationship he possessed with the place he grew up

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what is evident throughout the Monaghan poems?

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a great sense of disillusionment and discontentment

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what does the rural nature of Monaghan remind Kavanagh of?

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his loneliness

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What type of outlook on nature is explored throughout the Dublin poems?

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a much more positive outlook

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what does the change of scenery and the canal offer the poet?

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in his eyes a redemption and hope

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what can one assume the poet is making reference to when talking about ‘redemption’ and ‘hope’ in the Dublin poems?

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his operations and recovery from stomach cancer

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spiritual rebirth quote:

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“As a poet, I was born in or about 1955, the place of my birth being the banks of the Grand Canal

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what feelings are expressed in ‘Inniskeen Road’?

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isolation and loneliness

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where did the poet feel the feelings of isolation and loneliness?

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Monaghan

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what suggests the secrets of the countryside which the poet hopes to unlock while wandering through the world of nature?

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When the poet speaks of “a footfall tapping secrecies of stone”

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what does Kavanagh see himself as?

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as monarch of the rural kindom which surrounds him

“banks and stones and every blooming thing”

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what is Kavanagh likely trying to do by deliberately being ambiguous?

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to express his mixed feelings in relation to his isolation

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as a poet, what does Kavanagh accept?

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that isolation is an undeniable aspect of his poetic vocation

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what is kavanagh happy to do on his own?

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to wander alone through the countryside

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why is he happy to wander alone?

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because he finds inspiration and solitude

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what does the poem “A Christmas Childhood” portray

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Kavanagh’s vision of the world at Christmas when he was a child in Monaghan

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18
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what is the opening section of ‘A Christmas Childhood’ filled with?

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images of everyday life

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what are the images of everyday life described in ‘A Christmas Childhood’?

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frost-covered potato pits, cattle tracks and “a green stone lying sideways in a ditch”.

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what did Kavanagh marvel at in ‘A Christmas Childhood’?

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ordinary, everyday sights “any common sight” and the sounds of life

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special and wondrous quote:

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“How wonderful that was, how wonderful!”

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what does the repition of “wonderful” and use of exclamation marks convey?

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a sense of childlike excitement

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the ‘music’ from:

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“the paling post”

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what is the music from “the paling post” described as?

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“magical”

25
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what was playing in the hay shed like for the poet?

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like heaven itself

26
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heaven quote:

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“The light between the ricks of hay and straw/ Was a hole in Heaven’s gable”

27
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what does Kavanagh’s use of onomatopeia helps us to do?

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to hear the sounds of the countryside in winter

28
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sounds of the countryside in winter (quote)

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“A water-hen screeched in the bog, /Mass-going feet crunched the wafer-ice on the potholes”

29
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how is the beauty of the frosty countryside captured expertly?

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in a lovely visual image “The winking glitter of a frosty dawn”

30
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what does the title ‘The Great Hunger’ refer to?

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the Great Famine

31
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what is the hunger referred to in the title?

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a hunger for emotional and sexual fulfillment that characterised life in rural Ireland from the early to mid-twentieth century

32
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what is Maguire and his men’s religion centred around?

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the land they farm

33
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what have they sacrificed in making their lives revolved around their farms?

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any potential wife or family

34
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wife quote:

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“lost in the passion that never needs a wife”

35
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simile that compares the potato gatherers to:

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“mechanised scarecrows”

36
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what does the comparison of potato gatherers being “mechanised scarecrows” suggest?

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that lives of hardship and loneliness have left them spiritually lifeless

37
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how is the natural world portrayed in ‘The Great Hunger’?

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in a grim manner

38
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natural world portrayed in a grim manner quote:

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“Here crows gabble over worms and frogs”

39
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what does the image of the men standing in the field “shivering” reinforce?

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the cold, dark atmosphere that pervades in the poem ‘The Great Hunger’

40
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what were the poems ‘Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin’ and ‘Canal Bank Walk’ written following?

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Kavanagh’s recovery from serious illness

41
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what do the ‘Dublin poems’ reflect?

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the poets gratitude at being alive

42
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what do the ‘Dublin poems’ celebrate?

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the beauty, wonder and spiritual richness of everyday life

43
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what do the sights and sounds of the canal bank fill the poet with?

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joy and a deep sense of contentment

44
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what do the opening lines of ‘Lines written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin’ suggest and portray?

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-the tranquillity of the canal bank

  • portrays the great senses of happiness and contentment it brought to the poet
45
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childlike language in ‘Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin’:

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“silly” and “greeny”

46
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what does Kavanagh’s utilisation of childlike language suggest?

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his childlike wonder at the beauty and mystery of commonplace things

47
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what did the poet love in Dublin?

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the canal bank

48
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the poets love for the canal bank (commerating him) :

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“commemorate me where there is water, canal water preferrably”

49
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what is water associated with for the poet?

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his spiritual rebirth

50
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what does the poem ‘Canal Bank Walk’ celebrate?

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those ordinary everyday things in nature that tend to go unnoticed and unappreciated

51
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what does the opening line of ‘Canal Bank Walk’ suggest?

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the richness and fertility of nature

52
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opening line of ‘Canal Bank Walk’: (leaf)

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“Leafy-with-love banks”

53
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what are the waters in the canal compared to in ‘Canal Bank Walk’?

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the waters of baptism “pouring redemption”

54
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what does the natural world reflect in the poets eyes (‘Canal Bank Walk’)?

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the glory of God’s creation

55
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what will the poet do by appreciating and enjoying the commonplace things? ‘Canal Bank Walk’

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“do the will of God”

56
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what are indeed pleasures to be savoured for the poet in ‘Canal Bank Walk’?

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“the habitual, the banal”

57
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what enables the poet to grow spiritually?

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The poet’s renewed sense of wonder and his fresh appreciation of the everyday world

58
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growing spiritually quote: (Canal Bank Walk)

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“Grow with nature again before I grew”

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