Poetry structure Flashcards

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Lady Lazarus

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regular tercets with enjambment- imposing structure on chaotic mind
free verse- not set rules like her life

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Cut

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regular quatrains with enjambment- imposing structure on chaotic mind
free verse- not set rules like her life
enjambment- flows like blood, lines cut off and put on next line- cut

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Ariel

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regular tercets with enjambment- imposing structure on chaotic mind
free verse- not set rules like her life
tercets- horse galloping
enjambment- speed of horse

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Morning Song

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regular tercets with enjambment- imposing structure on chaotic mind, trying to put life into the supposedly natural structure of motherhood but hard (enjambment)
free verse- not set rules like her life

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Daddy

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regular cinquians with enjambment- imposing structure on chaotic mind
free verse- not set rules like her life
regular tercets and occasional rhyme and oo sound- childlike, nursery rhyme, longing forefather in childhood, confusion

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Edge

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regular couplets with enjambment- imposing structure on chaotic mind, not riotous but off key, hollow
free verse- not set rules like her life, lack of order, vulnerability

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Little Red Cap

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linear narrative, beginning middle end- fairy tale

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Queen Kong

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non-linear narrative- gorilla trying to fit in to human society but can’t quite get it right, swings backhand forth like gorilla

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Salome

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irregular structure- lack of order in life (“Peter?/Simon? Andrew? John?”)

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Medusa

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isolation of last line- powerful, imperative, double meaning

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Mrs Lazarus

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enjambment- lack of finality

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12
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Anne Hathaway

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sonnet- love and Shakespeare

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