Time and Place Anthology

To Autumn Synopsis John Keats

To Autumn Synopsis John Keats

Lots of nature Opium and autumn 2 verse personified autumn

John Keats To Autumn quotes

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun,

To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells,

Soft dying day

To Autumn Context

John Keats- Romantic poet- Conscious of death and change- Died of TB and so did his family

TJohn Keats o Autumn Themes

Death- Change- Nature and its abundance- Seasons

John Keats To Autumn links to

Home thoughts (Nature)- In Romney Marsh (Imagery)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge Synopsis William Wordsworth

London in morning and natures effect on it

William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge quotes

This city now doth, like a garment- Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie,- The river glideth at his own sweet will.

William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge Context

Romantic- Pantheistic = god is everywhere- Radical poet, Sonnet,

William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge themes

Nature,

William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge links

London- opposites

London Synopsis William Blake

Walking through london describing what he can see

London quotes

I wandered through each charted street…- Marks of weakness marks of woe- How the youthful harlots curse blasts the new born tears and blights with plagues the marriage hearse.

London Context

interested in the plight of children, dissenter- thought government had too much power- implications of corruption in the poem- Monarch had less power- Industrial revolution

London themes

Power- Corruption- Misuse of power- Urban life.

London links

Nothings changed (government hate)- Composed…

I started early synopsis Emily Dickinson

All of this could be imagined

Walking, chased by tide/ man runs, man/tide stops at city and bows,

I started early quotes

But no Man moved Me till the tide- Presuming Me to be a Mouse- And bowing- with a Mighty look-

I started early context

Reclusive- Capitalises important words- american- most of her work published posthumously- desperate to be seen- about the sea but claims she’s never seen it, poem about something else?- amherst boston, potentially had breakdown.

I started early links to

Adlestrop Cesuras- Nothings changed Short sentences- Presents from my aunts Disjointedness.

Where the picnic was synopsis Thomas Hardy

man visits place he went before he lost his wife and friends- remembers how good it was and how bad it is now-

Thomas Hardy Where the picnic was quotes

through winter mire bogged down by grief- As burnt circle metaphor for relationship with wife- Into urban roar- where we made the fire in the summertime Warm and happy and colourful-

Thomas Hardy Where the picnic was Context

Wife dead he felt guilty he didnt know how sick she was- before she dead they went for picnic with poets Yeats and Newbolt- Wrote collection about wife- Epigraph = had traces of an old fire

Thomas Hardy Where the picnic was themes

loss- grief- pathetic fallacy- death

Thomas Hardy Where the picnic was links

absense- london hated urbanisation- to autum lots of death

Adlestrop synopsis Edward Thomas

describing train station, then nature

Edward Thomas Adlestrop quotations

And willows, willow-herb and grass- (syndetic rhyming) And meadowsweet and haycocks dry- The steam hissed-(zoomorphism + industrial sounds) And for that minute a blackbird sang (enjambement)- Yes I remember Adlestrop

Thomas Hardy Adlestop Context

1878-1917 Killed by a shell, didn’t want to fight- Pre WW1- Lots of international tension- Suffered depression and used poetry to cope- nature poet.

Edward THomas Adlestop Key Themes

Nature vs Industrial- Experience- Memories

Edward Thomas Adlestrop Links to

To autumn, abundance of nature- Home thoughts from abroad, memories

Home thoughts from abroad synopsis Robert Browning

missing england in italy

Robert Browning Home thoughts from abroad Quotes

And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows, Thats the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over.

Far brighter than this gaudy melon flower.

Robert Browning Home thoughts from abroad context

Lived in italy, Victorian Poet, Influenced by Romantics, Eloped with Elizabeth Barret Browning moved to italy. Elizabeth died in 1861

Robert Browning Home thoughts from abroad Key themes

Nature, Longing

Robert Browning
Home thoughts from abroad Links

To autumn, Presents from my aunts (longing to be somewhere else)

First Flight Synopsis UA Fanthorpe

Speaker 1- going on 1st trip nervous

Speaker 2- Experienced / Daedalus

UA Fanthorpe
First Flight Quotes

A sudden swiftness- I crane for last of dear- Tell us when we get to water- Know what I mean- We have come to high for history- Mackerel wigs dispense the justice of air.

UA Fanthorpe First Flight Context

Icarus/ Daedalus, Focused on poetic voice, relationship between poet+ reader, what it means to be a brit, At end mature views on humanity, people in italics had icarus superiority, humans will have the fate of icarus.

UA Fanthorpe First Flight Key themes

Existentialism, profound views on humanity, journey

UA Fanthorpe First Flight Links

Italics Postcard from a travel snob- confidence,

Stewart Island Fleur Adcock synopsis

goes to Stewart island hates it then leaves

Fleur Adcock Stewart Island Quotes

white sand and bush down to the seas edge, Maori fishermen wit Scottish names (she ran off with one that autumn) - was bitten by sandflies- jetted down to jab-

Fleur Adcock Stewart Island Context

Born in Auckland- Spent childhood in England and other places- Outsider view on NZ- Writes about relationships and dull events. Likes nature of NZ but found it claustrophobic.

Fleur Adcock Stewart Island Themes

Nature, Contrasting views

Fleur Adcock Stewart Island Links

Nothings changed- Contrast between view and reality.

Presents from my aunts in pakistan Synopsis Moniza Alvi

aunts sent presents, she tries them on, feels disconnected from culture

Presents from my aunts in pakistan Quotes

glistening like an orange split open.- i tried each satin silken top was alien in the sitting room- i longed for denim and corduroy- staring through the fretwork at the Shalimar Gardens- But often i admired the mirrorwork

Presents from my aunts in pakistan Context

1970s England- Lack of representation- Didn’t return to pakistan until after her first book- moved to england at a few months old- Pakistani father, English mother- Lived in Lahore

Presents from my aunts in pakistan themes

Cultural Identity- belonging- urban enviroments- journeys/ immigration

Presents from my aunts in pakistan Links

Hurricane hits england- In Romney marsh-lots of imagery

Hurricane hits england Grace Nichols synopsis

Arrival of hurricane in england reminds her of her guyanese culture

Grace Nichols Hurricane hits england Quotes

The howling ship of the wind- dark ancestral spectre- Tell me why you visit and english coast- of old tongues- the blinding illumination- o why is my heart unchained- come to break the frozen lake in me- That the earth is the earth is the earth—

Grace Nichols Hurricane hits england Grace Nichols Context

Writes musical poetry- Poems are influenced by guyanese history + experiences as a woman- Left for England at 27- Traveled to remote places in Guyana and this influenced her writing-

Grace Nichols Hurricane hits england Key themes

Power of nature, cultural identity- Homesickness- disconnection

Grace Nichols Hurricane hits england Grace Nichols Links to

Presents from my aunts in pakistan- Absence (power of nature)- Nothings changed (sure of identity)

Nothings Changed Tatamkhulu Afrika Synopsis

Afrika returns to district 6 gets angry, memories wants to destroy things,

Nothings Changed Tatamkhulu Afrika Quotes

Small Round stones click (nature resists presence)- no board says it is but my feet know and my hands- and the hot white inward turning anger of my eyes- haute cuisine (fancy white people only restaurant) - linen falls- bunny chows… plastic table top…spit a little on the floor- hands burn for a stone a bomb- Nothings changed(last line impactful)

Nothings Changed Tatamkhulu Afrika Context

Written after apartheid ended about how it doesn’t change anything- Born in Egypt grew up in white household- charged with terrorism for opposing apartheid- Division was still there after despite it being illegal. District 6 = multicultural society, destroyed by white people- 60,000 black people displaced

Nothings Changed Tatamkhulu Afrika Themes

Racial Identity- Anger- segregation- injustice-

Nothings Changed Tatamkhulu Afrika Links to

London (Injustice)- Hurricane hits england-

Postcard From a Travel Snob Sophie Hannah Synopsis

Mockery of travel snobs by being pretentious

Postcard From a Travel Snob Sophie Hannah Quotes

I do not wish that anyone where here- apart from me- when your as multicultural as me- I am an anthropologist in trunks

Postcard From a Travel Snob Sophie Hannah Context

Poet and Crime Writer- Born in England, Manchester-

Postcard From a Travel Snob Sophie Hannah Key themes

Mockery of rich people, superiority-

Postcard From a Travel Snob Sophie Hannah Links

First Flight (arrogance)- Stewart Island (holidays)-

In Romney Marsh John Davidson Synopsis

Walking along Romney Marsh uses lots of auditory/ imagery

In Romney Marsh John Davidson Quotes

yellow sunlight fall- ringing shrilly- of purple vapor- saffron beach (opposite of london)- flicker and hade from out west- flakes of silver fire- as i went down to Dymchurch wall

In Romney Marsh John Davidson Context

was depressed- had cancer in later life- Born in scotland in 1857- 1908 moved to penzance- 1909 drowned himself- Ballad, Iambic- Romney marsh in kent associated with smugglers- When Dymchurch bell rung smugglers were ok to bring stuff ashore. Published after death

In Romney Marsh John Davidson Key Themes

Nature, Visual

In Romney Marsh John Davidson Links To

London, Presents from my aunts, To Autumn

Absense Elizabeth Jennings Synopsis

Jennings returned to place after someone left/died nature was shook by her greif/loss

Absense Elizabeth Jennings quotes

10 Syllables per line I visited the place where we last met- Nothing was changed- there was no sign that anything had ended- Thoughtless birds- Singing ‘an ecstasy- a savage force- An earthquake tremor:fountains, birds and grass were shaken by my thinking of your name- The fountains sprayed their usual steady jet.

Absense Elizabeth Jennings Context

Lyric Poet- Explores relationships- Prioritise thoughts feelings and emotions- Part of a group called “The Movement” thought poetry should not be complex but direct and clear-

Absense Elizabeth Jennings Key Themes

Grief and its power, Relationships

Absense Elizabeth Jennings Links

London-Controlled garden- Where the picnic was