Nature poem flash cards

Quotes to learn for hawk roosting

Quotes to learn for hawk roosting

I sit in the top of the wood my eyes closed

Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eats

And the earths face upwards for my inspection

It took the whole of Creation

I kill where I please

The allotment of death.

Context to learn for hawks roosting

Hughes wrote the poem to show the natural way of the hawks mind

Hughes lived during a time where strong dictators like Hitler Mussolini and Stalin thrived and fell

Religious contemporary audience

Wider nature of predators and bird of prey

Structure point for hawks roosting

Each stanza focuses on a different aspect which shows how the hawk is so perfect it needs a stanza to describe fully its aspects

Quotes to learn for Ozymandia

Whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer

Half sunk a shattered visage

Which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things

The hand that mocked them the heart that fed

My name is ozymandias king of kings

Round the despair of the colloidal wreck

Context to learn for ozymandias

Ramses the second is ozymandias and his empire crumbled

Ramses built the most monuments which have now since crumbled

Shelley writes as a sonnet to show the ironic love of power

Quotes to learn for to autumn

The maturing sun

With ripeness to the core

Sitting careless/asleep/drowsd

Oozing hours by hours

Where are the songs of spring

Then in a wail full choir

Context to learn for to autumn

Keats was inspired by a walk he took to write this poem

Keats was dying of tuberculosis

Brother died of tb as well

Structure point for to autumn

Each stanza represents a different month of autumn

Quotes to learn for death of a naturalist

Flax dam festered

Fattening dots burst

Mammy frog daddy frog

Invaded the flax dam

Poised like mud grenades

I sickened turned and ran

Context for death of a naturalist

Heaney lost a sibling at a young age

Troubles in Ireland he became aware of as an adult

Eldest of nine children

Structure point for death of a naturalist

Two stanzas with the start of the second stanza being the Volta for the emotional change in Heaneys description