Poetry Flashcards
(12 cards)
Ozymadias
3qs
Context
Structure
-“ wrinkled lip snare of cold demand”
-“ king of kings look at my works, ye mighty and despair!”
-“ lone and level sand stretch far away”
-context: Napoleon emperor of Egypt, extremely powerful, all the left of him, statue, romantic poet
-structure: this is a sonnet, – octet – his broken power, sestet – fear him
Sonnet, 43
3KQS
Context
Structure
-“ I love the to the depth and breath and heights my soul can reach”-she loves him as much as she can endlessly use listing emphasises her passion
-“ I love the with the passion put to use in my old graves and with my childhood faith”-she is replacing her faith with the love, viewing him as a god
-“ I love the with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life!”-She loves him with her life
Context: Elizabeth poet, she was in love with a man, but her dad did not approve, and therefore she gave up her faith for him
Structure : rhyme begins to become irregular. As you go through the poem. The sestet is about belief of religion and octet is about love.
Hawk roosting
3 QS
Context
Structure
-“ sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat”
-“I hold creation in my foot”
-“ I’m going to keep things like this”
Context: Ted Hughes right about dark side of nature he is a modern poet
Structure: six, versus, quatrain (four lines, each)
Enjoinment
To autumn
3KQS
Context
Structure
– “Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness“
– “The sitting carelessly on the granary “
– Willfull choir the small grants more
– Context: romantic poet, the author has tuberculosis and uses the pain as a reference to his death
Structure: free verses, verse, one end of prime life, first two middle aged verse three winter/death, regular rhyme, breaks down, going through each verse 
The soldier
3 K QS
Context
Structure
–“some corner of a foreign field that forever England“– refers to context
– “a body of englands, breathing english air” - personification mother figure
– “In the heart of peace, under an English heaven “– your country will give you peace even in death
Context: 18 87–19 15 wrote this before war started around Christmas 1914, Victorian poet,
Structure: sonnet about passion, octet – beliefs of dying your country, sestet – love for your country 
A wife in London
3QS
Context
Structure
– “She sits in the tawny vapour“– orange fog profess fallacy depressing
– “Has fallen – in the far southland “– war reference, war in South Africa
– “Love that they would learn “– love will be renewed tragic loss reference to a child
Context: 18 40–1928, British Empire at its prime, Victorian poet, British army lost South Africa war
Structure: two parts of poem, representing tragedy and irony. Written as a narrative poem.
She walked in beauty
2K QS
Context
Structure
– “starry skies, and all the best of dark and bright “– she is lonely perfect, dark and light imagery, she is the best in the universe
– “sweet express, how pure how the dwelling place “– when he looks at her face he thinks of her knowledge not her beauty thinks of her passionately and purely
– “a heart whose live us innocent!” Stereotypical metaphor for love, exclamation, he wants to take away her innocence sexually
Contacts: Lord Byron, well for sleeping with married women, romantic movement poet
Structure: regular rhyme, regular rhythm, iambic pentameter, lyric poem
Manhunt
3KQS
Context
Structure
– “Would he let me trace a frozen river which ran down his face? “– this has enjoyment showing? It’s an unsettling issue as the river represents a scar
– “ fill the hurt of his grazed heart “– emotionally grazed and physically by using his heart as a symbol of his PTSD
“Unexplained very deep in his mind “– she has to be careful in case he explodes on her emotion reference his PTSD
Context: The narrative of a wife, war in Bosnia mass killing husband suffers from PTSD
Structure: short, quick like a bullet, lots of enrolment, painful and ongoing
Valentine
3KQS
Context
Structure
“ Not a rose or a satin heart’” goes against stereotypes
“ it will blind you with tears like a lover” enjanmemt reference to structure
“ it sent to cling to your fingers”
Context: fake stereotypical love, modern poet
Structure: onion structure, the middle of the poem is a key message. Uses enjanment
Cozy apologia
3kqs
Context
Structure
“Chain mail glining to set me free” description of ted as a night in shing armour, used imagery
“ licorice and as chewy, sweet with a dark and hollow centre” hollow and empty, adjectives give a concept of a previous boyfriend, shallow love
“ we are content but fall short of the divine” they are cozy
Context: during hurricane Floyd dove wrote a poem about the love she has experienced in her life, modern poet
Structure: free versus, 1-description of Fred, two – about her past love, free – however her relationships not perfect but Cozy. Enjoyment, unstoppable ongoing.
Dulce et decorum est
3kqs
Context
Structure
“Bent double like old baggers under sacks” sacks is a metaphor for mental affects of war
“He plunges at me gutting chocking drowning” verbs refer to his ptsd + imagery, drowns in his own blood due to the lime gas
“The old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” translation-sweet and right to die for ones country
Context: during World War I poet about PTSD and lime gas bombs, writing poems as a form of a therapy for him antie War poem
Structure: to sonnet, sonnit one – describes the gas, sonnet two – describes his PTSD Messi/broken. Because he has a broken man sonnet one has led to 2.

Mametz wood
The wasted young
Like a wound working at a foren body
The boots that outlasted them
Context and France battle of the song attacks moments, words soldiers all died
Structural lots of enjoyment small versus small bits of people 
