Seen poems

Question 1

The Manhunt - structure

Answer 1

Then, and only then, did I come close.
Repetition
- Caesura - slows down pace reflecting a long period of time
Only then could i picture the scan
- anaphora ( repeated throughout the poem )
- Shows the time / patience the Laura had to go through

Question 2

The Manhunt - Lang

Answer 2

The parachute silk of his punctured lung
- Plosive alliteration
- Body is not able to fully function
- Connotations of delicacy and fragility
The foetus of metal beneath his chest where the bullet had finally come to rest
- Personification ‘rest’
- Oxymoronic ‘foetus’ life ‘bullet’ death

Question 3

The Manhunt - form

Answer 3

And feel the hurt of his grazed heart.
- Couplets / 2 line stanzas
- Looks / correlates to a ladder presenting the journey they took

Question 4

The Manhunt - Context

Answer 4

• About a couple - Laura and Eddie Beddoes
• Was written for a Channel 4 documentary called ‘forgotten heroes: the not dead’
• Eddie was a soldier who served in the Bosnian war and who was discharged due to injury and depression.
• Armatige is often noted for his strong sense of rhythm and meter

Question 5

I wanna be yours - Lang

Answer 5

Let me be your raincoat for those frequent rainy days
- Metaphor
- Protection during her difficulties and hardships
With deep devotion deep as the deep atlantic ocean
- Simile
- Large span of love

Question 6

I wanna be yours - Structure

Answer 6

That’s how deep is my emotion deep deep deep deep de deep deep
- Repetition of adj
- Overwhelmed and has an urgency for this ‘love’

Question 7

I wanna be yours - Form

Answer 7

Cleaner/cortina dust/rust
- Rhyming couplets
- However near the end of the poem the form becomes irregular

Question 8

I wanna be yours - Context

Answer 8

• Was a poet of the punk rock era of the 1970s
• Characterized by his rapid-fire renditions of his poems, performed a cappella
• Poetry is non traditional (colloquial)
• Rejecting the mainstream
• Social realism - creating a realistic depiction of life in order to comment on life

Question 9

One Flesh - lang

Answer 9

She like a girl dreaming about childhood
- Simile - not longer happy
- Noun ‘dreaming’ showing she is not present in the moment, dissociating
Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion
- Simile - reflection of their wrecked marriage

Question 10

One Flesh - struct

Answer 10

How cool they lie.
- Cesura - statement, end of passion
Strangely apart, yet strangely close
- Repetition suggesting how unnatural this is.
- Sibilance - emphasises the poignant silence in the house.

Question 11

One Flesh - form

Answer 11

3 stanzas - linking to the 3 people in the poem and the separation within their family - no quote needed

Question 12

One Flesh - context

Answer 12

• Traditionalist rather than innovative
• Autobiographical
• Known for her lyric poetry and mastery of form, simplicity of meter and rhyme
• Poetry is influenced by her roman catholic beliefs

Question 13

Sonnet 43 - lang

Answer 13

I love thee to the level of everyday’s
- Alliteration of ‘l’
- Shows fluidity -how easy it is for her to prove her love
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
- Metaphor - spatial imagery
- Polysyndetic listing

Question 14

Sonnet 43 - struct

Answer 14

I love thee with the passion
- Anaphora - build up emphasises love
- Like a tolling bell
Smiles, tears, of all my life!
- Asyndetic listing - her/his love does not ever waver
- Caesura ‘!’ is a show of how emotionally overwhelmed she is

Question 15

Sonnet 43 - from

Answer 15

Written in iambic pentameter - regular like her love
Petrarchan form - romantic / full of love and passion

Question 16

Sonnet 43 - context

Answer 16

• Eloped in 1845/6 and her father disinherited her due to this and they then moved to Florence
• Collection of ‘sonnet from the Portuguese’ - collection of love poems
• Both influenced each other’s writing greatly.

Question 17

Neutral tones - Lang

Answer 17

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
- Juxtaposition
- Superlative ‘deadest’
- Full of bitterness
- Disembodied emotion, unnatural, insincere
Like an ominous bird a-wing
- Simile
- Nothing good, still vivid in his memory
-Scares him how cruel it was

Question 18

Neutral tones - Struct

Answer 18

Your eyes on me were eyes that rove
- Repetition - Boredom that he feels and how tense the environment is
- Rove = traveling constantly
And the god-curst sun and a tree and a pond
- Polysyndetic listing - enhances a sense of monotony / dissatisfaction

Question 19

Neutral tones - Form

Answer 19

Form abba and has 4 regular stanzas showing how nothing changes and how still it all is
We stood by a pond - And a pond
- Cyclical structure - they have not moved on they are on lock a stasis
No closure

Question 20

Neutral tones - Context

Answer 20

• Believed that this poem was written about Emma Gifford whom he married in 1874
• The couple remained childless and became increasingly estranged and unhappy with each other
• Emma’s death in 1912 has a traumatic effect on him
• Famous for writing pessimistic and bleak writings
• Part of the 1898 collection ‘Wessex poems’