Poetry - Belonging: Anthology collection

Clear and Gentle Stream - Form

Uses rhyme and has a consistent 12 line stanza: shows how strongly influenced the poet was by nature as the consistency suggests faith and confidence in nature.

Clear and Gentle Stream - Structure

uses assonance to mimics sounds of nature and uses exclamative suggest passion and joy for nature

Clear and Gentle Stream - Context

Romanticism of nature and childhood. Bridges was influenced by spirituality and nature. Along with this spent his early childhood in Kent, England.

Island Man - Form

First two stanzas are free-verse - reflecting how the island is a dream/ past : a no longer concrete thing.

Last two stanzas have perfect rhyme, reflecting the awakening and the reality of life.

disjointed rhythm shows how broken the island man feels about his life.

Island Man - Structure

lack of punctuation suggests how it is a reoccurring dream for the island - suggests longing for his homeland. assonance creates euphony which is akin to a dream. Tricolour: ‘Steady, breaking and wombing’

Island Man - Context

Romanticism of nature. Island Man is based on her own experience as a recent immigrant living in London. Diaspora - displacement —- alienation, a common theme in Nichols poem.

Kumukanda - Form

Three stanzas , each 6 lines: each identity is as important as the other. Change in shape of stanza - represents shift from Zambia to England.

Kumukanda - Structure

Interrogative sentences in the last stanza - shows confusion on identity and emphasises internal conflict.

Kumukanda - Context

Diaspora - displacement. Kumukanda means initiation and because he didn’t complete it, part of his identity is locked in the past.

Chingonyi’s belief: ‘To be both British and Zambian is to be neither one or the other.’

‘It is a hybrid way…that means I can’t be accepted.’

Jamaican British - Form

8 couplets - 2 lines representing 2 identities. Poem is written in free-verse, shows lack of security of safety the poet feels in his identity.

Jamaican British - Structure

asyndeton - emphasising the difference is Jamaican and British. Dashes break lines in two - two identities.

Jamaican British - context

Diaspora. Dual heritage is reflected in this poem as Chingonyi searches to for his own identity. His mother is British and his father is Jamaican.

To My Sister - Form

Romantic ballad with 10 stanzas. Perfect rhyme Rhyming couplets - one for the poet and the other for the sister.

To My Sister - Context

Wordsworth was a Romantic poet and his poems often reflect key themes such as the power of nature and our place within it. Romanticism of nature. Wordsworth directly addresses his sister (Dorothy) in this poem. She lived with him.

Sunday Dip - Form

romantic sonnet, rhyming couplets with perfect rhyme.

Sunday Dip - Context

A romantic poet that celebrates the beauty and power of nature - as well as the role of humankind within it. In this poem, he is showing how a group of men enjoy their day off with the simple pleasure of cooling off in a pool of water. Grew up in a small, rural village

I Remember, I Remember - Form

alternating rhyme gives the poem a feeling of motion as Hood from past to present in each stanza. Four octaves, rhyming couplets at the end of each stanza.

I Remember, I Remember - Context

He was an invalid ( constantly sick) which is implied at the end of each stanza. Had a hard life, worked at the age of 15. He romanticised nature and innocence of childhood, he reflects the more realist ideas within Victorian poetry.

We Refugee - Form

Imperfect rhyme- emphasis how this displacement is intentional. Varied stanzas shows the different places we come from

We Refugee - Structure

last line ends in imperative for every stanza.

We Refugee - Context

discusses the plight of refugees and how easily it can be to be displaced from the your birth country and your home if a regime or a culture changes. Poet is a strong advocate of human rights and equality around the world.

Us - Context

Kunial was born in Birmingham. His mother is English, and his father is Pakistan. His poetry often refers to Identity and cultural heritage. He also talks about the nature of language and how it can be used to convey a number of different meanings and nuances. His poem 'Hill Speak' refers to the dialect his father spoke and how he wants to understand it to understand his father's life. Diaspora

Us - Form

uniformed stanza and line length - controlled and considered, reflecting on the idea of connection. Last stanza is one line - sense of isolation.

Us - structure

Dashes - caesura, to reflect the idea of isolation

In Wales, Wanting to be Italian - context

Dharker refers to Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of Queen, who was born in Zanzibar before moving to the UK. born in Lahore, Pakistan In 1954, but her family moved to live in Glasgow before her first birthday. She now shares her time living in Bombay, London and Wales. The references in the poem to Glasgow, Bombay and Wales suggest the poem is based on her own life. Hiraeth - translates to a deep nostalgic longing something/place or time that never existed: the poem is underpinned by the welsh concept. Poetry often reflects multiculturalism. presents the internal conflict of feeling disconnected from one's own environment while longing to inhabit an identity that feels more glamorous or exciting

In Wales, Wanting to be Italian - Form + Structure

varied stanza - shows multiculturalism and paliridromic - mirroring her time in these places.

My Mother’s Kitchen - Context

Choman Hardi was born In Iraqi and came to England in 1993 after growing up in Iran and Turkey. Her poetry focus on overcoming adversity, the strength of the human spirit and stem from her own and others personal and political struggles. The poem was written in decided to go home to Iraq after years of being away from their homeland and this move on yet again. The mismatched belongings and her mother's lack of sentimentality about her belongings reflect their lives as immigrants and moving around a lot.

My Mother’s Kitchen - Form

heterometric - mismatched like the belonging and constant changing represents displacement (transient life) - three irregular stanza

The Émigrée - Context

title refers to 'The Émigrée' the female spelling of the word. An Emigrant is someone who has had to leave their home country and finally a home somewhere else.a British born poet. She has published a number of collections of poetry her poems focus on  themes of persecution, personal stories, love, separation, death and displacement.

The Émigrée - Form + Structure

Stanza 1 & 2 are octaves and stanza 3 is nine lined. The lack of formal structure or rhythm helps show the rather scattered thoughts of the speaker as they look back on their life.