Poetry Anthology-Key Quotes Flashcards
Afternoons By Phillip Larkin
“Summer is fading”
“Behind them, intervals, stand husbands in skilled trades”
“And their children, so intent on finding unripe acorns, Expect to be taken home”
“Something is pushing them to the side of their own lives”
Post-war poetry- after WWII-Social cycles-Parents aging and children/work taking over their lives-life in estates-Observational
Form: End-stopped lines-inevitability of parenthood
No Rythmn-Shows montony of life
Structure:Establishes the setting,describes their life,descirbes the inevitability of life
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barret Browning
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
“Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight”
“I love thee purely, as they turn from praise”
“I shall but love thee after death”
Petrarchan sonnet-iambic pentameter
-Autobiographical-Sonnets for her lover-Robert Browning-Too prudish to be good for a woman-Released as translations of portugese sonnets-Sonnets from the portugese
structure- first six line-love is strong as the divine
second set of six lines-will continue to love him after death
Valentine by Carol an Duffy
“Not a red rose or Satin heart”
modality point-“I am trying to be truthful” -“It will blind you with tears”
“it’s fierce kiss will stay on your lips, possessive as we are, for as long as we are”
“It’s scent will cling to your fingers”
Form:conceit-extended metaphor, single lines-no rhyme-free verse
-In response to a radio presenter to write a original love poem-uses extended metaphor(conceit)
-Challenges traditional views on love
structure - slowly becomes more hostile throughout the entire poem-repition to show coercion
She walks in beauty by Lord Byron
“She walks in beauty like the night”
“One shade the more one ray the less would have half-impair the nameless grace”
“which Heaven to gaudy day denies”
A heart whose love is so full of innocence”
Form: Lyrical-iambic petrameter ABABAB rhyme Scheme
-Lord Byron-“Mad, bad and dangerous to know”-Hebrew Melodies-Religious pieces set to Music
-Influenced a girl he saw at a party in the aristocracy
structure: tripartite-one sentence-fluidity of analysing the girl
-short for Byron-showing the intensity of the moment
Manhunt by Simon Armitage
“After the first Phase “
semantic field of fragility(“Porcellain collar bone” and “fractured rudder of a shoulder blade” and “parachute silk of a punctured lung”
“a foetus of metal beneath his chest”
“a sweating,unexploded mine buried deep in his mind”
“Then and only then did I come close”
Released for 2004-contemporary-Channel 4 Documentry-Eddie Beddoes-Was in Bosnia as a peace keeper-Written to explore impacts on physical and physchological affect of war
Form:Couplet long stanzas , Laura’s perspective, Couplet’s break down like their relationship
structure:shape of a person-tracks path of the bullet
Dulce es Decorum est
“Bent double,like old beggars under sacks”
“As under a green sea , I saw him drowning”
“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come from the forth-corrupted lungs”
“The old lie:Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori”-It is sweet and fitting to die for your country
Poetic turn-Rhyme Scheme ABAB
-Poet had a Military cross-WWI-Wanted to tell the truth about the war-Died 7 days before the war ended
structure:Autobiographical
-walk back to camp
-Gas attack
-Questioning the Old lie
Mametz Wood
“For years afterwards the farmers found them-“-in media res
“like a wound working a foreign body to the surface of the skin”
“Wasted Young”-Wasted-rotted-no burial-Wasted-Not used and appreciated-young-“no identity”
“Slipped from absent tongues”
“A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade, the relic of a finger, the blown and broken bird’s egg of a skull”
soft f sounds-“For”,”afterwards”,
plosives-“back” “plough blades”
3- line stanza structure and free verse-no rhyme scheme-anti-war-
Welsh troops
World War One-Mametz-Town in Northern France-4000 men from the Welsh Regiment were Killed-Poet is also Welsh
The Soldier
“If I should die, think only this of me”
“There shall be in that rich earth a richer dust concealed”
“A pulse in the eternal mind”
“In hearts at peace, under an English heaven”
-Idealistic-bloomsbury group of authours-Winston Churchill admired it’s self patriotism-Poet died by Blood poisoning from a Mosquito on a French hospital ship before fighting in war
-Ropert Brooke Popular-idol for the war effort-established poet in 1911
-Sonnet-14 lines-Octave+Sestet -Octave-Physical+burial-Sestet-Afterlife and reincarnation Cycles
-Rhyme Scheme-ABAB rhyme scheme-Shows interconnected nature of the world
structure: stanza 1-physcial death/benefit
stanza 2-mental/spiritual benefit
A wife In London
“she sits in the tawny vapour”
“Flashed news in her hand”
“His hand, whom the worm knows”
“of new love they would learn”
Boers war one and two-written to deter from them-seen as unnecessary-Fought against the Dutch for an african colony-Wife is isolated due to Husband leaving-All alone and could be anyone’s wife
-Asymetrical rhyme Scheme-ABBAB-irregular rhythmn
Hawk Roosting
“I sit in the top of the wood with my eyes closed”
“Now I hold creation in my foot”
“I am going to keep things like this”
Dictators-Hawk-Allowing no change-Excessive Hubris and rules through violence and fear-Hughes denies-Uses animals in poetry-This hawk is red in tooth and claw-Predatory and efficient-Does not compromise.enjaubment-6 stanzas equal length-narsassitic
“I kill where I please because it is all mine”
“in sleep rehearse perfect kills”
“My eye has permitted no change”
Death of A Naturalist
“All year the flax dam festered”
“The Daddy Frog was called a bullfrog and how it croaked and the Mummy frog Laid hundreds of eggs”
“the slap and slob were obscene threats”
“That if I dipped my hand in the spawn would clutch it”
-Irish poet-Grew up in Ireland-Set in Ireland-Uses nature to show Maturity-Romantic poet-Roman Catholic Upbringing-Sex it taboo
Living Space
“There are just not enough straight lines”
“Someone has squeezed a living space”
“fragile curves of white”
“slanted universe”
“The bright thin walls of faith”
Form:Nothing
Cesura
Free verse with partite structure
Long thin stanza and rhymes to show that the rhymes are only just holding it together.
Poet was born in Pakistan-Lives in Britain and India-Work explores life in India-Anout slums in Mumbai and how determine and resourceful Humans are
Ozymandias
“I met a traveller from an antique land”
“half sunk, a shattered visage lies..”
“the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed them”
“The lone and level sands stretched far away”
ABAB rhyme Scheme free verse and one stanza
cyclical pattern shows that his memory is insiginificant
-Poet-Romantic-Radical thinker-rejected power and corruption of Governments-Rhamses II-autocratic political power and hubris
Prelude
“And in the frosty season, when the sun was”
“Proud and exhalting like an untir’d horse”
“And Woodland pleasures, the resounding horn”
“And every icy crag,Tinkled with Iron”
“into the tumult sent an alien sound”
““The orange sky of evening died away”
One Stanza-no rhyming-enjambment-Blank verse Iambic pentameter-Steady rhythmn
Caesuras-energetic momentum of the children.
Volta at line 16
-Poet-early romantic poet-Grew in Lake District-Poem apart of set that describes his experiences that him to being a poet-Nature-Great Universal Teacher
To Autumn
“seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness”
“thy hair soft-lifted by the
winnowing wind”
“ or by the cider, with patient look, thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours”
“And gathering swallows in the sky”
ABABCDECDDE
tripartite
Ode-shows praise for Autumn
-Poet-Loved Nature-Romantic-Liberal in political ideas and rejected urban sophistication
-Nature available to all-Ill-Wanting Early passing-presentiment pf Death
