Poem Revision Flashcards
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3 main themes of the “The City Planners” by Margaret Atwood
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- critiques humanity’s obsession with controlling its environment
- Warning about Global warming caused by extreme urbanisation
- Ignorance of the City planners- blaming eachother for the cost of urbanisation
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3 main themes of the “The planners” by Boey Kim Cheng
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- The cost of Modernity- everything being in control, endless desire for perfection
- Nature vs Humanity- nature described as flaws, humanity decribed as beauty
- History matters/ is important- criticising extreme modernisation
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3 main themes of ‘The Man with Night Sweats’
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- Vulnerability- symptoms of AIDS
- Desire for Physical health
- Discrimination of Society towards the one with AIDS
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3 main themes of the ‘Night Sweats’
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- Life’s fever- symbolises bipolar disorder
- Writer’s block- lack of creativity due to the disease
- Love of Wife- described as the ‘light’ who saves him from his life’s fever
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3 main themes of the ‘Rain’
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- Experiences from WWI- loneliness
- Die, dead, death- main theme of poem + repitition of the word ‘rain’ 7 times
- acceptance of death+ love of death- nothing can be depended on except for death
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3 main themes of the ‘Spirit is too blunt an Instrument’
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- perfection and complexity of human body- process to create it
- Perfection to imperfection- chaotic world makes us imperfect, however we create a perfect creature (babies)
- Emotion makes us unique and special
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3 main themes of the ‘From long Distance’
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- Grief of the Father- How death effects human beings
- Denial and disbelief of death
- Repetition of this process= grief is human nature
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3 main themes of the ‘Funeral Blues’
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- Grief and Isolation for those who are left
- Emphasise in love (hyperbole)- impact that the dead had in speakers life
- effects of death (of losing someone)
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3 main themes of ‘He never expected much’
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- world he predicted was so little- can not be disappointed with his life
- life happened as he expected
- maturity- was a mature child
8 lines stanza called an octave- reflects 8 decades
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3 main themes of ‘The Telephone Call’
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- Manipulation of others emotions- human nature
- Experience/ Hope of human- perhaps something more valuable than money is experience
- Appearance vs reality- what was expected and what was recieved
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3 main themes of ‘A Consumer’s Report’
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- God is meaningless in consumerism society
- refers life as a (unpleasant/ unwanted) gift
- life is a designed product (experiences varies when the ‘deisgner’ varies)
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3 main themes of ‘Request to a Year’ by Judith Wright
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- Wants great-grandmother’s attitude
- different from other women
- difficulty for victorian women to have identity
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3 main themes of ‘On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book’ by Charles Tennyson Turner
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- would you leave a beautiful mark on the world once dead?
- fragility of life (like the death of the fly)- death is inevitable
- person can live a worthless life without any influence or legacy left behind
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3 main themes of the ‘Ozymandias’
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- Beauty of Art (what’s left behind is art not power)
- Theme of Power- emphasis in his power
- Fading of Power- nothing is left (time)
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3 main themes of the ‘Away, Melancholy’ by Stevie Smith
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- Humans suffering from melancholy
- Pointless to question injustice if god is product of human
- Hope- ability to conquer our sorrow with inner goodness
