Modern Poetry

setting in wild swans

autumn

whats the allusion in the wild swans

thomas the rhymer

symbols in wild swan

swans: youth, freedom, purity

wings: form rings failed proposal

themes in wild swans

aging, fading creativity, missing youth

romanticism, magic, nature immortality, individuality, freedom

whats a gyre

vortex

what does the falcon and falconer mean

chaos breaking out into world, falcon cant come back from how bad the chaos has gotten

what is the ocean filled with in the second coming

blood and the good people are flourishing and bad people thriving

what is the purpose of the sphinx in the second coming

birth of the spirit of the earth traveling through desert to undermine christ power (jesus long sleep b/w 1st and 2nd coming over bad unleashed)

what is the authors mind plagued with in the second coming

spiritus mundi spirit of man kind

negative imagery in second coming

“Anarchy”, "blood dimmed", "blank and pitiless", "darkness", "nightmare", "rough beast“​

allusions in second coming

bible, referencing the day when Jesus will come back to earth (1 Corinthians 15:23)

metaphors in second coming

"turning and turning in the widening gyre..” distance and disorder (gyre too large that the falcon can’t return)

"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed" violent deaths and war (war strips the good of purity and innocence)

"stony sleep" years in b/w the 1st & 2nd coming

themes in the second coming

apocalypse, disaster key point, order & disorder, chaotic disruption, violence, violent events create violent people

the journey of the magi is about

magi reflecting on visiting Jesus and the troubles the faced doing that

problems for the magi

sores on the camels, the camels stubborn lying in snow, cold winter night, the hostility of the locals, and the inner voices of “folly” (symbolism), dessert, no info on jesus

personification in the journey

towns and cities given human elements (hostile, unfriendly)

allusions

3 trees(also imagery) = 3 crosses, white horse from revelation (conqueror & war horse), silver representing judas & throwing lots for Jesus' clothes

Metaphor

Death = death of magus old life

Paradox

Happy about death (wants some sort of death wondering if he can belong to priestly order)

Themes of the journey

Difficulty of journey & passage of time

What is the purpose of the adjective of golden in fern hill

Protective barrier from life for the child

Who is the speaker in fern hill

An adult looking back on life

Where does the poem take place in fern hill

A kingdom in an Apple orchard the only place a child could imagine

Why does the author reference green and famous

Child is happy and carefree and famous meaning the child is the center of the world

What is personified

Time. Children see time in a different slower perspective, allows the reader to play endlessly, night holds stars, hayfields height of human, farm running from land, sky collect, and Tune from chimneys, lambs happy, and I sang (sea)

How does the author use imagery

Over exaggerates and describes everything from a child’s perspective with an adventurous dream of farm being taken by owls but protected by the moon (fields of praise)

Morning dew represents

Renewal and purity

What’s the allusion in fern hill

Garden of Eden before fall and describes creation with light emerging from darkness like the animals coming out of the barn

What’s the tone of fern hill

Beauty and renewal of nature

How does the speaker feel at the end of the poem in fern hill

Feels great to be in countryside but feel a loss as children grow up and speaker approaching death and children leaving him behind

Metaphor in fern hill

Nightjars compared to being religious, time held me green and dying

Similes In fern hill

Fields high as house and green as grass, farm white like a wandered with dew, chains like sea

Themes in fern hill

Nature and it’s meaning, freedom, and impermanence

what do the horses symbolize in the horses

freedom, strength, & endurance

themes in the horses

color, black & gray represent loss of hope & suffering, orange & red (sunrise) brings healing & new perspective

sound, healing power in silence, horses utterly motionless shows strength in survival, and shriek of curlew (marsh bird) brings the narrator to the bust streets in cities

horses, bring healing & peace

comparison in the horses

the size of the horses similar to the megaliths

setting of the horses

Open land; countryside; marshy​, also forest from where narrator is

themes in muse de art

why should we care about others, other peoples problems don affect you (loss of mortality), criticizing public view on private suffering

allusion in muse de art

Breughel's Icarus painting

what poems are free verse

muse de art, the horses, the second coming

the anthem for doomed is what type of poem

sonnet

juxtaposition in muse de art

suffering along everyday activities, condemnation of human indifference to suffering

symbolism in muse de art

old masters - artist leaving world w/ more questions

human position - nature of mankind

the ship - human self interest

(always been here connecting to real world)

metaphors in follower

father is a sail in the water (plow goes over land like sail in water, shows fathers connection to land), heaney awkwardly following dads footstep unable to compete but holds him on his shoulders (father son bond)

enjambment in follower

movement of plow cutting through the land similar to the sentence being cut up

reason for repetition of metaphor in follower

relates to the repetition the plowman goes through each day while doing his job

shifted metaphor in follower

used to get in dads way but now his dad cant make it in this new modern world and their tradition is dead but heaney is the larger shadow

themes in the follower

shoulders of the giant, saw how hard dad worked w/ land and laid a foundation for him, guided son

tradition, father son bond, father still shows unconditional love and support even tho tradition is dead

agriculture, nature & man protecting nature = unity, father connected to nature

focus of soldier

wants to be remember & honored for dying for england, if he dies in an area that area is england, england shaped the man he is today, enriched by dust (dead body), death honorable, purifies soul, English heaven, return whats shaped him to england

metaphor in soldier

dust is his body

personification in soldier

england as mother who bear its children

imagery in soldier

flowers, suns, and rivers, as who made him, & characteristics of ruperts countryside

simile in soldier

england is happy & at peace in no war

themes in soldier

patriotisms, transformation in becoming something greater than yourself

irony in the anthem of doom

anthem is a song of praise but its criticizing the ways soldiers die

personification in the anthem

guns & rifles, wailing shells, sad shires, demented choir

focus of anthem

soldiers dying with no funeral like the rest of the world, soldiers are cattle, but they receive bullets instead, those who do are mockeries, insincere, & inappropriate, no prayers but bullets, bugles play to call soldiers souls home, no flowers, patient minds waiting for death, finally closing their eyes

themes in anthem

death (doomed to die), tribute & ritual, dont receive the same ceremonies and rituals

what type of poem is the soldier

italian sonnet

what type of poem is wild swans &

lyric

what type of poem is journey

narrative