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Flashcards covering key themes, forms, and quotes from a selection of poems.
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Power and seduction, romantic obsession, illusion vs reality.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Ballad form with repeated cyclical stanzas mirrors emotional entrapment.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Literary ballad – mystical, haunting, cautionary tale.
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
“And her eyes were wild.” – Suggests freedom, danger, and madness; femme fatale power.
Sonnet 116
True love as constant, time and mortality, idealism.
Sonnet 116
Shakespearean sonnet with 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet builds to a definitive argument.
Sonnet 116
Shakespearean sonnet – traditional love poem form with authority.
Sonnet 116
“It is the star to every wandering bark.” – Love is a guiding star, moral and emotional compass.
My Last Duchess
Power and control, jealousy and pride, objectification of women.
My Last Duchess
Single stanza with enjambment mimics the Duke’s manipulative and rehearsed speech.
My Last Duchess
Dramatic monologue – reveals ego and controlling nature.
My Last Duchess
“That piece a wonder, now… there she stands.” – Objectifies wife, values image over humanity.
Blessing
Scarcity vs abundance, spiritual symbolism, inequality.
Blessing
Irregular stanzas reflect chaos and surprise of water’s arrival.
Blessing
Free verse – mimics real-life disorder of sudden water burst.
Blessing
“The sudden rush of fortune.” – Water seen as wealth in poverty; miracle and chaos.
Prayer Before Birth
Loss of innocence, dehumanization, fear of the future.
Prayer Before Birth
Stanzas grow longer to build emotional crescendo of panic.
Prayer Before Birth
Dramatic monologue in free verse – raw, prophetic vulnerability.
Prayer Before Birth
“I am not yet born; provide me.” – Repeated pleas show desperation and irony of failed protection.
War Photographer
Trauma of war, desensitization, moral conflict.
War Photographer
Regular 6-line stanzas impose order on emotional and literal chaos.
War Photographer
Third-person narrative poem – reflective and melancholic.
War Photographer
“He has a job to do.” – Detachment shows emotional burden and reader indifference.
Half-Caste
Racial identity, cultural fusion, reclaiming language.
Half-Caste
Short lines, repetition, and phonetic spelling reflect creole voice and challenge formality.
Half-Caste
Dramatic monologue / performance poem – confrontational and conversational.
Half-Caste
“yu mean when light an shadow mix… is a half-caste weather?” – Embraces beauty of duality; mocks prejudice.