Conflict Poetry Anthology conetext and quotes

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I was angry with my friend:

I told my wrath, my wrath did end:

I was angry with my foe:

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water’d it in fears,

Night and morning with my tears;

And I sunned it with smiles,

And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,

Till it bore an apple bright;

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole

When night had veil’d the pole:

In the morning glad I see

My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.

What type of poet was Blake?

a Romantic

Who were the romantics?

a group of poets in the 18th century who believed the modern world was corrupting humanity

What were Blakes beliefs?

He was a devout Christian but believed the church had taught people to be fearful and revengeful rather than forgiving and open

What did Blake believe about childhood?

He believed it was a state of perfection -innocent and uncorrupted by the adult world

In which book was ‘A Poison Tree’ published?

Songs of Innocence and Experience

What was ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ written for?

to show how the modern world had led people astray

One summer evening

(led by her)

Straight I

unloosed her chain

Small circles glittering idly in the moon

until they melted all into one track

It was an act of stealth

And troubled pleasure

Proud of his skill

to reach a chosen point

With an unswerving line

I fixed my view

Went heaving through the water

like a swan;

The horizons bound,

a huge peak, black and huge,

Upreared its head.

I struck and struck again

like a living thing,

Strode after me.

through silent water

stole my way

Back to the covert

of the willow tree;

for many days, my brain

Worked with a dim and undetermined sense

There hung a darkness, call it solitude

Or blank desertion

But huge and mighty forms, that do not live

Like living men, moved slowly through the mind

trouble to

my dreams

What kind of poet was William Wordsworth?

a Romantic

What were Wordsworth’s political views?

radical and eventually became conservative

How were Wordsworth’s poems regarded?

with hostility from critics

Where was Wordsworth born?

1770, Cumbria, the Lake District

What views did Wordsworth have?

he had a love of nature and was a pantheist, believing that God is in the nature around us. He was also very enthusiastic about the French revolution ideals

Where did Wordsworth study?

Cambridge and he spent a summer on a walking tour of France

What happened to Wordsworth?

both of his parents died so he lived with relatives who he didn’t get on well with so spent most of his free time outside

I was a

cottage maiden

Contented with

my cottage mates

Why did a great lord find me out

And praise my flaxen hair? or To fill my heart with care?

He lured me to his palace home-

Woe’s me for joy thereof-

To lead a shameless shameful life,

His plaything and his love

He wore me like a golden knot, He changed me like a glove:

So now i moan, an unclean thing Who might have been a dove.

Chose you

an cast me by.

Because you were so good and pure

He bound you with his ring

The neighbours call you good and pure,

Call me an outcast thing.

Even so I sit and howl in dust

You sit in gold and sing:

O cousin Kate, my love was true,

Your love was writ in sand

If he had fooled not me but you, If you stood where I stand, He had not won me with his love

Nor bought me with his land: I would have spit into his face And not have taken his hand

Yet I’ve a gift you have not got

And seem not like to get:

I’ve little doubt you fret

My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride

Who was Christina Rossetti?

A highly religious woman who worked at a house for ‘Fallen Women’

What was it like in the Victorian Period?

there was a preoccupation with wealth, power and influence

What were Christina Rossetti’s thoughts?

she felt that society needed to base itself on teachings from the Bible

Excuse me

standing on on leg

I’m half-caste

wah yu mean

when yu say half-caste

yu mean when picasso mix red an green

is a half-caste canvas/

light an shadow mix in de sky

is half-caste weather/

well in dat case

england weather nearly always half-caste

so spiteful

dem don’t want de sun to pass

tchaikovsky sit down at dah piano

an mix a black key wid a white key is a half-caste symphony/

Ah listening to yu wid da keen half of mih ear

Ah looking at yu wid de keen half of mih eye

I offer yu half-a-hand

an when i sleep at night I close half-a-eye

I dream half-a-dream

I a half-caste human being cast half-a-shadow

but yu must come back tomorrow wid de whole of yu eye

an de whole of yu ear an de whole of yu mind

an I will tell yu

de other half of my story

When and where was John Agard born?

1949 in Guyana

Where was John Agard’s father from?

Gyana

Where was John Agard’s mother from?

Portugal

When did John Agard move to England?

1977

merciless iced east winds

that knive us…

Wearied

we keep awake

Worried by silence,

sentries whisper, curious, nervous,

But nothing

happens.

Like twitching

agonies of men

What are we

doing here?

Sudden successive

flights of bullets steak the silence.

Pale flakes with fingering stealth

come feeling for our faces-

We turn back

to our dying.

For love of God

seems dying.

we hear the mad gusts

tugging on the wire

We only know war lasts,

rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy.

flowing flakes that

flock, pause and renew,

wind’s

nonchalance

All their eyes

are ice,

When was Exposure written?

1917 whilst Owen was fighting in the trenches

What were peoples opinions on war?

It was romanticised and most war poetry was written about the honour of fighting

What did Wilfred Owen do differently to other war poem writers at the time?

He exposed WW1 for what it was rather than romanticising it

I can remember

you, child,

our first fierce

confrontation

red rope

of love

I wrote all over the walls

with my words,

We want, we shouted,

to be two, to be ourselves.

As you ask may you skate

In the dark, for one more hour.

defiant

glare

trailing love

and conflict

tightening about

my life

from the heart’s pool

that old rope

What type of poem is ‘Catrin’?

Autobiographical, written about true events

raining

exclamation marks