poems Flashcards
(23 cards)
prelude context
1850
william wordsworth - romantic poet
form - epic poem written in blank verse
prelude quotes x5
a huge peak black and huge, as if with a voluntary instinct upreached its head - volta
no familiar shapes / remained, no pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky, no colours of green fields; But huge and mighty forms - juxtaposition, colour imagery
and were a trouble to my dreams
trembling oars
there hung a darkness
checking out me history context
2007
john agard
free verse - freedom
poet js mixed
from collection half caste and other poems
criticised education system
checking out me history quotes x3
dem tell me dem tell me
bandage up me eye with me own history / blind me to my own identity
mountain dream / fire woman struggle / hopeful stream / to freedom river
exposure context
1920
ww1
narrative poem
owen wass a ww1 soldier
experienced first hand
exposure quotes x6
but nothing happens
our brains ache in the merciless east iced winds that knife us…
what are we doing here
sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence
pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces
is it that we are dying
London context
1794
william blake
narrative poem own
british empire critique of society
london quotes x3
hapless soldiers sigh / runs in blood down palace walls
mind forced manacles i hear
marks in every face i meet / marks it weakness, marks of woe
remains context
2008
dramatic monologue
cynical structure
simon armitage
iraq and afghanistan conflict
not dead poetry collection
remains quotes x4
his bloody life in my bloody hands
i see every round as it rips through his life
sleep and his probably armed possibly not, dream and torn apart by a dozen rounds
the drink and drugs won’t flush him out
poppies context
2009
jane weir
epic poem
remembrance day
ww1
poppies quotes x3
spasms of paper red, disrupting a blockade of yellow bias bending around your blazer
later , a single dove flew from the pear tree, and this is where it has lead me, skirting the churchyard walls
the dove pulled freely against the sky / an ornamental stitch
the emigree context
1993
epic poem
carol rumens
grief
the emigree quotes x3
it may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants but i am branded by an impression of sunlight
but my memory of it is sunlight clear for it seems i never saw it in that November which i am told comes to the mildest city
they accuse me of a sense they circle me they accuse me of being dark in thier free city
storm on the island context
1966
seamus heaney
dramatic monologue
iambic pentameter
cynical structure.
metaphor for irish troubles
allegory of the political storm to come
storm on the island quotes x3
listen to the thing you fear forgetting it pummels your house too
spits like a tame cat turned savage
we sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly. Space is a salve
ozymandias context
1818
percy shelley
sonnet ( lore poem )
egyption pharaoh rameses II
fleeting nature of glory and power
ozymandias quotes x7
my name is ozymandias king of kings
look on my works ye mighty and despair
round the ready if that colossal wreak, boundless and bare
stamped on these lifeless things the hand that mocked them
nothing beside remains
near them in the sand half sunk shattered visage lies
sneer of cold command
my last dutches context
1842
robert browning
drmamatic monologue
iambic pentameter
rhyming couplets
based on duke of ferrara
my last dutchess quotes x4
i gave commands then all smiles stopped
the gift of a nine hundred year old name / who’d stoop ti blame this sort of trifling
the curtain i have drawn for you, but i
her looks went everywhere
tissue context
2006
imtiaz dharker
free verse
metaphor for life double entantre
human tissue physical tissue
tissue quotes x3
paper smoothed and stroked and turned transparent with attention
maps too the sun shines through their borderlines
fine slips from grocery stores might fly our lives like paper kites
