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Poetry Anthology Flashcards: ALL POEMS

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What is the context surrounding the Prelude?

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  • romantic poet
  • autobiographical
  • nature: form of escapism
  • had troubled relationship with family, parents died when he was a teenager
  • split from his siblings
  • went to stay with his uncles and grandparents
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Who wrote the Prelude?

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William Wordsworth

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Who wrote Mametz Wood?

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Owen Sheers

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What is the context surrounding Ozymandias?

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  • radical thinker, romantic poet
  • ozymandiaas, rameses II, pharaoh
  • opposed power, corruption and oppression by government
  • hated the monarchy and george III cus militaristic attitude
  • pacifist
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Who wrote Ozymandias?

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Percy Bysse Shelly

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What does Dulce et decorum est mean?

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It is sweet and honourable

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What is the context surrounding DEDE?

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  • decorated soldier
  • died on the 4 november
  • antiwar, affected by PTSD
  • sought to tell the world about his experience
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What is the context surrounding Cozy Apologia?

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  • set with bg of Hurricane Floyd
  • an apologia: defence of something
  • in a biracial relationship - felt the need to defend it from haters
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Who wrote Cozy Apologia?

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Rita Dove

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What is the context surrounding As Imperceptibly as Grief?

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  • recluse
  • poems not intended to be published, published after her death
  • could see the family graveyard from her bedroom
  • outlived lots of her friends and family
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Who wrote Imperceptibly?

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Emily Dickinson

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What is the context surrounding Hawk Roosting?

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  • wrote poem putting himself in the Hawk’s body and mindset
  • studied anthropology and archaeology @ cambridge
  • denied interpretation of Hawk being a representation of facism and dictators, claims that he just wanted to show a Hawk’s natural way of thinking
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What is the context surrounding Death of a Naturalist?

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  • lost his brother in a car accident as a child
  • strong Roman Catholic upbringing might imply that the poem is about sexual maturity
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Who wrote Death of a Naturalist?

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Seamus Heaney

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What is the context surrounding a Wife in London?

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  • Boer War
  • his poetry often deals with sensitive topics such as victimes of war and its devastating impact
  • many viewed the Boer war as unnecessary
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Who wrote A wife in london?

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Thomas Hardy

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What is the context surrounding Valentine?

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  • challenges the stereotypical viewof a Valentine’s day gift
  • breaks conventions and criticising society’s views of being materialistic
  • feminist
  • bisexual
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Who wrote Valentine?

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Carol Anne Duffy

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Who wrote Afternoons?

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Phillip Larkin

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Who wrote to autumn?

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John Keats

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What is the context surrounding living space?

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  • born in pakistan and raised in glasgow
  • draws on her multicultural experience within her work
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Who wrote living space?

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Imtiaz Dharker

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Context - she walks in beauty

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  • byron described as ‘mad bad and dangerous to know’
  • womaniser
  • about his cousin’s wife
  • forbidden love
  • romantic poet
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she walks in beauty - author?

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lord byron

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the soldier - context

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  • reflects attitudes of the time during first world war
  • embodies selfless patriotism
  • part of Bloomsbury group
  • actually never saw action, died w malaria on french military ship
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the soldier - form

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  • petrarchan sonnet - shows love for his country
  • first person
  • shakespearean rhyme scheme, idea of enriching foreign things with something english
  • unwavering rhyme scheme and clear
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the soldier - author

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rupert brooke

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london - author

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william blake

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london - context

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  • romantic poet
  • radical political views - supported french revolution
  • poem part of songs of experience
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sonnet 43 - author

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elizabeth barret browning

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sonnet 43 - context

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  • autobiographical - to her lover robert browning
  • father disapproved of her relationship and disinherited her
  • mainly deaths throughout her life
  • published as a translation of portugeuse sonnets so that no one knew it was her who wrote them
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manhunt - context

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  • og aired as channel 4’s documentary - forgotten heroes, not dead
  • read by wife laura to soldier eddie bedoes
  • eddie served in bosnian war as a peacekeeper and suffered a life changing injury for which he was discharged
  • antiwar
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manhunt - author

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simon armitage

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the prelude - form

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  • first person
  • blank verse
  • iambic pentameter
  • as if it is an intimate conversation with the reader
  • enjambment creates sense of joy and spontanaiety
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prelude - structure

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  • 2 main sections
  • tone is carefree and wild abandonment
  • punctuated with caesuras and lists - conveys energetic excitement of children
  • volta: older voice reflects on the nature that went unnoticed as a child
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mametz wood - form

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  • tercets
  • 3rd person
  • distance and detachement
  • enjambment - reflects slow unearthing and passing of time
  • reflective tone
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structure and form of DEDE

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  • first person
  • autobiographical
  • regular ABAB rhyme scheme
  • stanzas of irregular length
  • iambic pentameter falters
  • disjointed like war
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Who wrote DEDE

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wilfred owen

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structure and form of cozy apologia

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-personal poem - for fred
- free verse and conversational tone
- 1st stanza - regular rhyming couplets, traditional conformation of love and intimacy
- 2nd stanza - disrupted rhyme scheme as she revisits past relationships
- 3rd stanza - returns to ABAB rhyme scheme as domestic harmony is restored

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Imperceptibly - form

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  • one sentence makes up one whole stanza
  • no discernable rhyme or rhythm
  • lines are often short and connected by hyphens - gives tone of melancholy reflection
41
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Imperceptibly - structure

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  • series of metaphors about summer fading away gradually
  • mixed metaphor shows difficulty in expressing feelings of loss and that no one idea is adequate
42
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structure and form of hawk roosting

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  • hawk’s dramatic monologue
  • first person - authoritative
  • no rhyme - cold harsh and blunt
  • each stanza always has 4 lines and is harsh reflective of decisive + controlling nature of the hawk
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hawk roosting author

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ted hughes

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form of death of a naturalist

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  • first person
  • blank verse
  • insecure iambic pentameter : change, unpredictability of nature
  • enjambment
  • enthusiasm + nature’s inability to be constricted
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form of wife in london

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  • irregular rhyme and dashes create pauses + reflect wife’s disbelief at the news
  • assymetrical rhyme scheme - wife’s struggle to absorb the news
  • ABBAB
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form of valentine

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  • rejection of traditional love poetry - rejection of heteronormativity
  • first person
  • stanzas of irregular length
  • lacks rhyme and rhythm + freeverse : disjointed feeling
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context - afternoons

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  • post war poet
  • spoke abt the bleak truths of life
  • unmarried
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form of to autumn

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  • ode : usually has 10 lines, this one had 11 to reinforce abundance
  • iambic pentameter
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structure of to autumn

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  • in each stanza, keats introduces an aspect of nature and expands on it
  • 1: misty morning: ripeness of autumn
  • 2: sleepy afternoon: season begins to end
  • 3: evening : death of season
  • captures passage of time and journey towards death
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form and structure of living space

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  • irregular form
  • stanzas and lines lengths of varying lengths
  • first stanzas: building under stress and caesuras emphasise how loosely connected the different parts are
  • tone shifts towards the end from critical to hopeful
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how do the form of structure of the poem mirror its description of the house in living space?

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  • lack of regular rhyme and rhythm + enjambment across lines and stanzas
  • different line lengths make it look like the place it describes
  • rhyme holds the poem together, like nails in the walls
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structure of the soldier?

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  • octave: focuses on how england enriches his life
  • sestet: death is meaningful and reciprocal
  • harmony between octave and sestet shows that their is harmony between a man and his country
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structure of sonnet 43

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  • direct and passionate in its tone + outlines the different ways she loves him
  • first 8 love is divine - octave
  • last 6: sestet - love is ever lasting
  • enjambment - magnitude of her love
  • exclamations and caesura passion and ecstasy
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mametz wood context

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  • battle in ww1 in which around 4000 men from british army’s welsh regiment were killed
  • written as a response to the farmers in the area still finding bones in their fields
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structure and form of ozymandias

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  • 3 voices : narrator, traveller and ozy
  • sonnet - love for power
  • lots of caesura and enjambment
  • doesn’t follow a regular rhyme scheme
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structure of death of a naturalist

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  • split into 2 stanzas recalling opposing incidents
  • 1: abt how he loves the frogspawn
  • 2: hostile, abt how the frogs are gna attack him
  • volta: nature is now unfamiliar and threatening
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structure of wife in london

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  • poem divided into 2 halves: tragedy and the irony
  • first 2 stanzas: accentuate wife’s lonliness trapped in london’s web of fog
  • second 2 stanas: juxtapose news of husband’s death with his joyful prose
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structure of valentine

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  • list of ways the onion represents love
  • onion - extended metaphor
  • tone: initially playful and optimistic
  • ends with hostility
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form of afternoons

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  • 3 stanzas of equal length
  • no rhythm: static
  • end stopped lines = inescapable
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context surrounding to autumn

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  • romantic poet
  • liberal in its poetic beliefs
  • died of TB, nursed his brother who also had TB
  • lost lots of his family at a young age
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What is a commonly used language device in she walks in beauty?

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light vs dark imagery - antithesis

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form of she walks in beauty

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  • lyrical in tone and nature
  • iambic tetrameter
  • ABABAB rhyme scheme
  • third person: objectifying her no more than vessel of beauty
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structure of she walks in beauty

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  • 3 equal stanzas
    -b: woman’s external beauty
  • e: considers that one’s inner goodness is outwardly magnified
  • each stanza is one sentence - sense of fluidity, her effortless grace, poise and elegance
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language features in the soldier

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  • england personified through extended metaphor of a mum
  • romanticised idea of war without pain or suffering
  • religious imagery - devotion to england is god-like
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form of london

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  • dramatic monologue
  • first person
  • ABAB rhyme scheme and strict iambic tetrameter
  • reflects unforgiving nature of life and routine in the capital - inescapable
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structure of london

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  • first 2 stanzas - the people he sees
  • 3 stanza: criticises institutions
  • final stanza refocuses on the people
  • enjambment and repitiion - all linked by misery no one left unaffected
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language features : sonnet 43

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  • religious imagery: love is spiritual and unconditional, like her love of god
  • repetition of ‘love thee’ - anaphora - intensely personal and direct nature of her feelings
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sonnet 43 form

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  • petrarchan sonnet
  • written in iambic pentameter
  • rhyme scheme - certainity of her love
  • volta: perfectibility of her love
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manhunt form

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  • couplet long stanzas
  • rhyme scheme present intially but then disappears making the poem feel disjointed and broken
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manhunt structure

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  • each couplect introduces a new injury
  • enjambment reflective of the slow progres wife is making

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