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What are the main themes of ‘If’?

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Stoicism
Masculinity
Patriotism

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What is the tone of If?

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Positive
Motivational
Inspirational
Paternal advice

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What is the form of If?

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Dramatic monologue - ABABCDCD and Iambic pentameter

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What are the main themes of Prayer Before Birth?

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Depression
Hopelessness
Innocence

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What is the tone of Prayer Before Birth?

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Plea for help
Negative
Fearful

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What is the form of Prayer Before Birth?

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Dramatic monologue - free verse

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What is the form of Blessing?

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Irregular free verse

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What is the tone of Blessing?

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Excitement
Joy
Undercut with the struggles of poverty

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What are the themes of Blessing?

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Beauty of water/simplicity
Poverty
Drought

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What is the form of Search for my tongue?

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Dramatic monologue - free verse

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What is the tone of search for my tongue?

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Confrontational
Bitter
Agressive

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What are the themes of search for my tongue?

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Identity

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What is the form of Half past two?

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11 tercet free verse

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What is the tone of half past two?

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Positive
Juvenille

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What are the themes of half past two?

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Innocence of a child’s mind
Rigidity of time

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What are the themes of Piano?

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Memory
Nostalgia
Control
Masculinity

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What is the form of Piano?

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Lyric poem

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What is the tone of Piano?

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Positive and negative - antithesis of two shows the complexity/pain of nostalgia

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What is the tone of Hide and Seek?

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Negative
Dark
Alone

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What is the form of Hide and Seek?

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What are the themes of Hide and Seek?

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Loss of innocence
Imagination of a child

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What are the themes of Sonnet 116?

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Love - what is true love?
Confusion of true love

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What is the form of Sonnet 116?

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Shakespearean Sonnet

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What is the tone of Sonnet 116?

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Conversational

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What is the tone of La Bella Dame sans Merci?
Inquisitive at first Then it becomes happy and reverential Finally it becomes sad
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What is the form of La Bella Dame sans Merci?
Ballad - iambic tetrameter and last line of each stanza is iambic trimeter
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What are the themes of La Bella Dame sans Merci?
Unrequited love Sex Merciless women
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What is the form of Poem at Thirty Nine?
Free verse lyric poem
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What is the tone of Poem at Thirty Nine?
Conversational
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What are the themes of Poem at Thirty Nine?
Memory Nostalgia Love (paternal) Grief
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What is the form of War photographer?
4 regular sestets
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What is the tone of War photographer?
matter - of - fact distanced
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What are the themes of War photographer?
Guilt Anger Suffering War
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What is the form of The Tyger?
6 quatrains in rhyming couplets
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What is the tone of The Tyger?
Desperate Powerful
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What are the themes of The Tyger?
What is the nature of God? If God is benevolent, how can he create evil?
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What is the form of My Last Duchess?
Dramatic Monologue - iambic pentameter
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What is the tone of My Last Duchess?
Conversational
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What are the themes of My Last Duchess?
Power Control Psychopathic villain
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What is the form of Half caste?
Dramatic monologue - free verse
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What is the tone of Half caste?
Confrontational Bitter Angry
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What are the themes of Half caste?
Identity (struggle of identity for a mixed race person)
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What is the form of Do not go gentle into that good night?
Villanelle - 5 tercets+1 quatrain (only 2 rhymes 2 refrains). -obsession
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What is the tone of Do not go gentle into that good night?
Desperate Conversational Pleading
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What are the themes of Do not go gentle into that good night?
Obsessional fear to resist death
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What is the form of Remember?
Petrachan sonnet - octave and sestet
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What is the tone of Remember?
Sentimental Nostalgic Mawkish Consoling Generous
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What are the themes of Remember?
Memory Guilt Death Religion

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