Edexcel English poetry revision

ACTHSG - Denial quote

Grand-dad they say your old and frail,

ACTHSG -Anger quote

How lank and thin your beard hangs down!

ACTHSG - Bargaining quote

When you wake we'll aye be near to fill old dad his cheer.

ACTHSG - Depression quote

I have a tale both long and good,

ACTHSG - Acceptance quote

You did not hear me, dad.

ACTHSG - Theme

Family love & feeling of powerlessness in a relationship

ACTHSG - S&F

Dramatic Monologue

Who wrote ACTHSG?

Joanna Baillie

Manhunt - writer

Simon Armitage

Manhunt - quote 1 - TFR

The frozen river which ran through his face,

Manhunt - quote 2 - TDP

The damaged porcelain collar-bone,

Manhunt - quote 3 - ACT

And climb the rungs of his broken ribs,

Manhunt - quote 4 - AFT

And feel the hurt

Of his grazed heart

Manhunt - quote 5 - TAS

To a sweating unexploded mine

The Manhunt - Themes

Intimate romantic relationships

Manhunt - S&F

Consistent use of couplets suggest consistency of couples relationship

Nettles - writer

Vernon Scannell

Nettles - quote 1 - BSA

Bed seemed a curious name for those green spears

Nettles - quote 2 - TBC

The boy came seeking comfort

Nettles - quote 3 - ALH

At last he offered a watery grin

Nettles - quotes 4 - ATI

And then I took my billhook honed the blade

Nettles - quote 5 - AFP

A funeral pyre to burn the fallen dead

Nettles - quote 6 - MSW

My son would often feel sharp wounds again

Nettles - Theme

Family relationships

Nettles - S&F

Cyclical structure

IWBY - writer

John Cooper Clarke

IWBY - quote 1 - LMB

Let me be your ford cortina I will never rust

IWBY - Quote 2 - LMB

Let me be your teddy bear take me anywhere

IWBY - Quote 3 - LMB

Let me be your electric meter I will not run out

IWBY - Quote 4 - DDD

deep deep deep deep de deep deep

IWBY - quote 5 - IDW

I don’t wanna be hers I wanna be yours

IWBY - Theme

Desire and longing for intimacy

IWBY - S&F

Uses snapshots with ‘let me be’

Valentines - Writer

Carol Ann Duffy

Valentines - quote 1 - NAR

Not a red rose or a satin heart

Valentines - Quote 2 - IWM

It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief

Valentines - Quote 3 - IFK

It’s fierce kiss will stay on your lips

Valentines - Quote 4 - IPL

It’s platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring

Valentines - Quote 5 - ISW

it’s scent will cling to your fingers, cling to your knife

Valentines - Themes

Violence

Valentines - S&F

Free verse stanza is non-conventional like Her love interests

Sonnet 43 - Writer

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 43 - Quote 1 - ILT

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height, my soul can reach

Sonnet 43 - Quote 2 - BSA

By sun and candlelight

Sonnet 43 - Quote 3 - ILT

I love thee with passion

Sonnet 43 - Quote 4 - WMC

With my childhood’s faith

Sonnet 43 - Quote 5 - ISB

I shall but love thee better after death

Sonnet 43 - Theme

Love can transcend earth and daily conventions of society

Sonnet 43 - S&F

Petrarchan sonnet - has 14 lines

Neutral tones - Writer

Thomas Hardy

Neutral Tones - Quote 1 - WSB

We stood by a pond that winter day

Neutral Tones - Quote 2 - FLL

Few leaves lay on the starving sod

Neutral Tones - Quote 3 - ETR

Eyes that rove

Neutral Tones - Quote 4 - SWP

Some words played between us

Neutral Tones - Quote 5 - TSO

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing

Neutral Tones - Quote 6 - APE

A pond edged with grayish leaves

Neutral Tones - Theme

Dying moments of a relationship

Neutral Tones - S&F

Four stanzas of four lines but do not rhyme

My last Duchess - Writer

Robert Browning

My last Duchess - Quote 1 - TDA

The depth and passion of it’s earnest glance

My last Duchess - Quote 2 - SLW

She likes whate’er

My last Duchess - Quote 3 - TAS

Then all smiles stopped together

My last Duchess - Quote 4 - NNT

Notice Neptunes, though, taming a sea-horse

My last duchess - Theme

power and it’s abuse, male attitudes towards women

My last Duchess - S&F

Browning uses iambic pentameter to mimic the style of speech/conservational tone

A complaint - Writer

William Wordsworth

A complaint - Quote 1 - AFA

A fountain at my fond hearts door

A complaint - Quote 2 - NTH

Not taking heed of its own bounty

A complaint - Quote 3 - WHM

What happy moments did I count!

A Complaint - Quote 4 - ACH

A comfort less hidden well

A complaint - Quote 5 - ITW

If the waters sleep in silence and obscurity

A complaint - Theme

Lost love and emotional impact on change

A complaint - S&F

Three stanzas, this divides the speaker’s reflections as they compare their life with and without love