Poetry Anthology : Form

Question 1

London

Answer 1

Written in quatrains (ABAB rhyme scheme) - child like - it’s a protest poem - writes it in a way that it’s so memorable even children can remember it

Question 2

Kamikaze

Answer 2

Becomes a monologue (from daughter) from “he must have looked far down”- it’s as if she’s telling a story with a moral at the end of it.
No form - which signifies how the family didn’t give the father a role in the family - denied identity
Attempting a form with (6 lines each stanza and free verse) like the daughter attempted to have a relationship with her father

Question 3

Émigrée

Answer 3

Doesn’t really have one
All stanzas are 8 lines but the last ones 9 lines to emphasise it’s importance
free verse​with n​o rhyme or rhythm​. This could be seen to represent the chaos and lack of control over a country with no stable government.

Question 4

Storm on the island

Answer 4

Political message - extended metaphor (symbolic)
Last stanza ends with half rhyme - gives us a feeling of unease and that the conflict has not yet been resolved

Question 5

Checking out me history

Answer 5

Opening - childish rhyme - it’s repetitive and perhaps restrictive- life in Britain is perhaps a restrictive place for him
When he talks about his history, it’s in Freeverse and the rhymes occur a lot quicker and unpredictably. This could emphasise this personal freedom linked to cultural history comparing it with the restrictive British history.
He ends with a coop traditional way of rounding a poem off when there’s a happy ending his way of signalling happy ending talking now as a role model for people of Afro Caribbean descent

Question 6

Charge of the light brigade

Answer 6

Written in dactyl which gives it this song like sound
Used to celebrate the heroic nature of the soldiers

Question 7

Exposure

Answer 7

Lines are a lot longer than usual to make the time that the men are being exposed to the weather is extremely long
Every stunt is written five lines with a short final line on each one suggesting that the poet is in control
There’s a half frame which unsettles the reader and the poet wants a neat solution to the wall, “ but nothing happens”

Question 8

The prelude

Answer 8

Written in one stanza to express it has no boundaries on it - how he wants society to be
Britain in pentameter -10 syllables per line
Form is unsettling like the experience that he’s describing