Poetry AO2 Flashcards
(19 cards)
Here - “a pastoral hymn to solitude”
“Swerving” - immediate present tense
Sibilance
“Piled gold clouds” - fumes from the train merging with sky
Listing - hustle and bustle
“Fishy smelling”
Repetition of title
On sentence organisation
“Shapes and shingle”
Mr Bleaney
“Bodies”, “they moved him”
“Thin and frayed” - dilapidated
“Stub my fags” - speaking like Mr Bleaney
“Lie” and “lay” conflict of past and present
“I know his habits” - interlinked by cosmic energy
“Frigid wind” - sympathy for depressed Bleaney
Monosyllabic “I don’t know” - ambiguous
Nothing to be said
“Small statured cross faced tribes” - sibilance, warped image of tribes
“Life is slow dying” - inevitable journey toward death
“hunting pig” - Lord of the Flies, “garden party” - rituals hold both societies together
“Birth” and “death” - cycle of life common in two societies
“Nothing to be said” - title ending
Naturally the foundations will bear your expenses
“Comet” - luxury, high speed jet, high status
Internationally renowned
Harsh c alliteration
Sibilance and alliteration of “wreath rubbish” - mocking patriotism
“Outsoar” - bigger than mother nature
Repetition of “my”
Broadcast
Diseased language - unromantic
“Scuttled” - vermin, unhygienic, disgust
“Snivel” - pretentious, uncomfortable
Virgin Mary
Slimy language - “slithering”
Deathly, decaying language “still and withering” like an unwatered plant
Leaves dying in the winter imagery
“Rabid” - wild, out of control
“Tiny in all that air” - innocent, flooded by barbaric atmosphere
Faith Healing
“Rimless glasses”, “silver hair” - smart, slick, jealousy of the popular healer
Fertile language, trick?
“demand”, “directing God” - powerful, omnipotent
“Exiled” - strong at the end
Exorcism
Insluting language, “their thick tongues blurt” - cow, animalistic description
J sound - “rejuvenation”
“Rigid lanscape weeps”
For Sidney Bechet
“Hold”, “rising”, “shakes” - energetic, full of life and in control of music
“reflected on water” - incorporated into nature, magical
Idealised version of NO - old fashioned “flower baskets and quadrilles”
Release in “Oh, play that thing!”
Jazz is his own love
“Enormous yes” as if marriage proposal, ecstatic
“Scattering long haired grief” - jazz is a release from pain, past trauma
Home is So Sad
“Bereft” - devastating, powerful as if destitute
“Withers” - if there’s no life, home withers like an unwatered plant
“Heart” - metaphorical for people
“Joyous shot” - alcohol, temporary happiness
“Vase” - hollowness, no personification of objects, no life
Water
Association of words - purification, cleansing, religion, rebirth
“Construct” and “religion” - strange idea, bizarre
Purification in religion - “fording”
“Sousing” - sounds violent, quick dunking of objects
“Devout drench” alliteration
Light transforms water into something greater
Days
Silly child asking questions
Reptition of time
Stammering, simple response
“Ah” - puzzlement
“Priest” and “doctor” contradiction, physical and spiritual contrast
Ridiculous track star image
Take One Home for the Kiddies
“Shallow”, “shadeless” - weaker language
Dad bringing back presents to children
MCMXIV
“Uneven” - youthful, excited or futures uncertain, some dead some alive
“Stretched outside” - injured in battle, laying dead, strewn all over grass
“Grinning” - mischievous
“Dark clothed” - doom approaching, in the dark about their futures
“Tin” - hollow, “advertisements” - fake
Long sentences - frozen in time, moment gone now
Obsession with innocence - repetition of “never such innocence again”
Talking in bed
Partial rhyme - lack of togetherness
Double meaning of “lying”
“Ought to be” - complex relationship
“Disperses” - metaphor for people growing distance
“dark towns” - bedroom like a shadow village
Double negatives
Ambulances
“confessionals” - private deathbed secrets, sinister
“glances” - cold exterior
“light gloss grey” - dull but appealing at the same time - draw in intrigue
“strewn” - dead bodies, morbid, children playing, disaster awaiting?
alliteration of ‘w’ in “wild white” - pale and deathly, widower
“emptiness”
“permanent and blank and true”
sympathy - “poor soul”
Decaying atmosphere, borne contrast with death, cycle of life
“D” alliteration
The Importance of Elsewhere
Trochee position of “lonely” - isolation highlighted instantly
“Salt rebuff of speech” - alienation and salt in the wound
“Separate, not unworkable” - litotes, indefinite and complex, potential for happiness nonexistent
Underwrites - contrast to long sentences
Rhythm slips at end - overwritten
Reference Back
“Wasting” - decaying at home
“Flock” - music makes him free like a flock of birds
Repetition of unsatisfactory
Blindingly - painful, idealised version o past
Full rhymes to half rhymes - losing control of time
First Sight
First impression not accurate to second impression]”Snow” - deathly weather contrasts innocent lambs
Sunless glare - painful
Abstract language - “wretched width of cold”
Wetly caked - soggy and dirty, sweetness of milk soured by hostile environment
Utterly unlikeable - opposite of lambs
Cycle of life
Send no Money
Colloquial language “bash” - full of resentment toward own life
“Fobbed” - looking up at Father Time, time personified, Victorian figure
“Hail” - frozen rain painfully hitting you
“Clobber” and “straight” - destructive clobber, straight boring path in life
“Bestial” - reflection of his animalistic, disgusted self
Alliteration for crude sound, truth is unglamorous, disgusted sound effect
Afternoons
“Fading” - decaying of fun, time passing
Subtle, gradual decline
“Hollows” - emptiness
Independence f children - circle of life
Nature (“wind”) in control - disrupting lives
Thickened - put on weight, motherhood
Courting places
