Poetry Flashcards
(24 cards)
Themes of follower
Strong bond
Admiration
Getting older
Nature
Quotes of follower
An expert
Shoulders globed
Narrowed and angled at the ground
Fell sometimes in the polished sod
Structure of follower
Cyclical structure- will not go away
Themes of winter swans
Nature
Distance
Quotes of winter swans
Two days of rain
Mate for life
Porcelain over the stilling water
Structure of winter swans
Tercets and in fourth stanza ‘halved’
Themes of neutral tones
Loss
Death
Memory
Nature
Quotes of neutral tones
Sun was white
Starving sod
Like an ominous bird a wing
Structure from neutral tones
(A,B,A,B)
Sonnets have 14 lines but this has 16
Cyclical structure-‘pond’
Themes of letters from Yorkshire
Distance
Nature
Quotes from letters from Yorkshire
In February
First lapwing return
Other world
Icy miles
Structure of letters from Yorkshire
No rhyme
Tercets
Themes from walking away
Distance
Nature
Memory
Quotes from walking away
It is eighteen years ago
Like a satellite wrenched from its orbit
Leaves just turning
Structure of walking away
(A,B,A,C,A) quatrain
Themes if when we two parted
Loss
Distance
Death
Memory
Quotes from when we two parted
A knell in mine ear
To sever for years
Silence and tears
Structure from when we two parted
(A,B,A,B)
Last stanza goes back to rhyming with other lines
Themes from loves philosophy
Longing
Desire
Nature
Quotes from loves philosophy
Winds fro heaven
Mountains kiss
Waves clasp
Nothing in the world is single
Structure from loves philosophy
(A,B,AB)
Two stanzas
Rhetorical question- why not i with thine?
Themes from sonnet 29
Nature
Fulfilment
Longing
Desire
Quotes from sonnet 29
Insphere
Drop
New air
O my palm-tree
Structure of sonnet 29
Half rhyme-‘bud’ and ‘wood’
