Poetry of The Decade - Effects, Genetics, Look We Have Coming To Dover! Flashcards
(36 cards)
Poet of Effects?
Alan Jenkins
E - Structure?
One stanza - singular flowing thought, lost in his regret.
Frequent enj, caesura, and unregulated rhyme shows disordered thinking, guilt and grief fragmented his mind.
E - ‘hand, that was always scareed // From chopping, slicing’ ‘knuckles reddened, rough from scrubbing hard’
synecdoche - hands represent her style of motherhood. Resilient, active and hard working mother (frequent verbs).
E - ‘whatever ‘funny foreign stuff’’ ‘cheap cut of meat’
his view of his mother with judgement/distain which he now feels regret for
E - ‘Could not know that, or turn her face to see // A nurse bring a little bag of her effects to me.’
Rhyming couplet makes a sorrowful resolution. ‘little’ - diminisher, her identity and life (represented by the effects) has become insignificant and reduced in death.
E - ‘lately had never been without’
clinging to facets of ordinary life as the illness takes over, longing for life.
E - ‘Not all the weeks I didn’t come’ ‘Not later in the psychiatric ward’
Anaphora - there is a sense of remorse for his inaction/disinterest in his mother’s decline. Thinks of what could have been.
E - ‘stared unseeing’ ‘blinked and poured’ ‘stared unseeing’ ‘gulped and stared’
motif of losing sight, she grows helpless and vulnerable in her suffering. Role reverasl between the mother and son.
E - ‘moans and curses’ ‘blinked and stared’ ‘drooled and swore’
Multiple coordination, mother’s suffering is prolongued and forces her into passivity.
E - ‘or grew up and learned contempt’
most self-critical point of the poem. lack or appreciation for his mother brings him shame.
E - ‘a thick rubber band // With her name on it in smudged black ink was all she wore’
contrast with the watch, loss of liveliness and identity in illness. Her identity is devalued and fading (unclear).
E - ‘please don’t leave // But of course I left’
enj - guilt and failure of the speaker. Predictable and remorseful
Poet of Genetics?
Sinead Morrissey
Ge - Structure?
Villanelle - sense of seperation and togetherness throughout the poem. Return to rhyme in the final quatrain forms a ring in the poem structure (symbolic of a wedding ring).
Ge - What is the Villanele structure?
A villanelle is a 19-line poem with two refrains and a specific rhyme scheme. It consists of five tercets (three-line stanzas) followed by a quatrain (four-line stanza). The first and third lines of the first tercet are repeated as the last lines of the subsequent tercets and the final couplet of the quatrain.
REFRAINS: The first and third lines of the first tercet are repeated throughout the poem.
Ge - ‘My father’s in my fingers, but my mother’s in my palms’
Synecdoche - emphasises the connection of and with her parents as everpresent in her as a biological mix of the two.
Ge - ‘repelled to separate lands, // to seperate hemispheres’
physical distance represents the emotional disconnect of the parents - ‘repelled’ suggests it was forceful.
Ge - ‘quarry for their image by a river’
Natural imagery - barrier between parents and an image of everchanging connection.
Ge - ‘I shape a chapel where a steeple stands’
childish game reppresents the purity of the love inside her. Religious imagery shows eternal love.
Ge - ‘priest’ ‘marriage register’
link to ‘one flesh’ and Biblical nature of love through theological language. connection perseveres (no divorce in the eyes of God).
Ge - ‘re-inact their wedding with my hands’
following the example of her parents, searches for her own similar connection
Ge - ‘So take me with you, take up the skin’s demands’
Volta, attention shifts to her own partner and relationship, desire for a similarly undefeatable love.
Poet of Look We Have Coming To Dover?
Daljit Nagra
LWHCTD - Structure?
regular quintets with mismatched language, migration and struggle with English.
