Poems KF Flashcards
(30 cards)
Blessing
Form and Structure
Form - Free Verse (Water is free)
Structure
1. Stanzas vary in length (length linked to amount of water, wave like)
2. Full stops (Fewer full stops in second half, water flows)
Half past Two
Form and Structure
Form - Free verse (free of constraints of time)
Structure
1. Closed structure (restraint of time)
2. Enjambment and caesura break this up late in poem (freedom)
Piano
Form and Structure
Form - Free verse
Structure
1. Rhyming couplets (Music and harmony)
2. Volta between past and present (Stark change)
Hide and Seek
Form and Structure
Form - Free verse
Structure
1. Rhyming couplets mark important lines
2. Single stanza (flow of time, excitement carries forward)
Sonnet 116
Form and Structure
Form - Sonnet
Structure
1. Describes what love isnt first, then what it is
2. Shakespearean sonnet: 3 quatrains, Rhyming
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Form and Structure
Form - Ballad
Structure
1. Use of stereotypes e,g a knight (Either love can destroy anyone, or he’s ridiculing the idea of romance)
2. Iambic pentatmeter but each line too short (Heroic but romance is cut off)
Poem at Thiry Nine
Form and Structure
Form -Free Verse
Structure
1. Short stanzas (shortness of time with father)
2. Long stanza 2 to show long work time
War Photographer
Form and Structure
Form - Free Verse (closed form)
Structure
1. Regular form (Cyclical nature of war, attempt to impose order in chaos)
2. Ends with the cycle repeating (unending)
The Tyger
Form and Structure
Form - Free Verse
Structure
1. Trochaic Tetrameter (Chanting, spiritual feel)
2. Reference to Paradise Lost
My Last Duchess
Form and Structure
Form - Dramatic monologue (Duke controls narrative: power)
Structure
1. Her painting is reflective of her objectification
2. End moving on so quickly shows unimportance
If
Form and Structure
Form - Free verse
Structure:
1. Audience (“my son”) and goal only adressed at end so it is universal and action comes first
2. Repetitive structure emphasises how complicated it is to be a man
Prayer before birth
Form and Structure
Form - Dramatic monologue (Obviously symbolic)
Structure:
1. Incantation (like a prayer)
2. 1st and last line of stanzas rhyme
Search for my tongue
Form and Structure
Form - Free verse
Structure:
1. Middle stanza in Gujarati to show her daily experience + dreaming in Gujarati
2. Direct adress in line 1 is accusing (like halfe-caste)
Half-Caste
Form and Structure
Form - Free Verse
Structure:
1. Volta at “buy yu must come back tommorrow” reverses message to show Europeans are “half”
2. 2nd Stanza, all the good things that come from mixes (reclaiming) , 3rd stanza, ridicules idea of half people
Do not go gentle into that good night
Form and Structure
Form - Villanelle
Structure:
1. Iambic pentatmeter that is broken by “rage,rage” line
2. Only mentions it is his father at end, it is universal til then
Blessing
Language
Language
1. Semantic field of religion (“god”,”congregation”,”blessing”; high levels of religion in poor countries + power of water)
2. Sibilance (rush of water)
Half past Two
Language
Language
1. Compound words(“Gettinguptime”,”Grantime”)
2. Personification
Piano
Language
Language
1. Semantic field of music
2. Negative lexis related to the present
Hide and Seek
Language
Language becomes more sinister through
Sonnet 116
Language
Language
1. Ship metaphor - love is a journey
2. Personal language (shakespeare himself is the speaker)
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Language
Language
1. Semantic field of weakness (Love makes someone weak)
2. Flowers - Lilies for innocence, Roses for romance but also martyrdom
Poem at Thiry Nine
Language
Language
1. Cooking language (“Seasoning” as a metaphor for adventure)
2. “Staring into the fire” - unafraid of confrontation and hope
War Photographer
Language
Language
1. Semantic field of religion (Reverance of the dead)
2. References (to Napalm bomb photo and Isiah 40:6)
The Tyger
Language
Language
1. “Water’d heaven with their tears” - (Suffering but neccessary, Songs of Innocence and Experience)
2. Tools used are from industrial revolution but also blacksmith (ancient and new)
