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Hunting Snake Form and Metre
quatrains, ABAB rhyme scheme
Chimney sweeper form and metre
Inconsistent metre, ABAB rhyme scheme, quatrains
The Cockroach form and metre
Sonnet, octave and sestet
Sonnet 18 form and metre
Sonnet, iambic pentameter
A Different History form and metre
Free verse
Where I come from form and metre
Free verse
Report to Wordsworth form and metre
Sonnet with irregular metre
Love Armed form and metre
Iambic tetrameter, octets
Lament form and metre
Tercets, free verse, anaphora
Follower form and metre
Quatrains, full rhyme and half-rhyme
Storyteller form and metre
Free verse
Before the sun form and metre
Free verse
A Married State form and metre
Iambic pentameter, heroic couplets, extended sonnet
Carpet-Weavers, Morocco form and metre
Tercets but irregular metre
Context of Hunting Snake (Judith Wright)
Australian and fought for conservation
Context of Chimney Sweeper (William Blake)
Children were sold at young ages to master sweeps
chimneys were very narrow
conditions were terrible
Context of the Cockroach
Kevin Halligan:
had depression
Context of Sonnet 18 (William Shakespeare)
celebrating his love for a beautiful young man
Context of A Different History (Sujata Bhatt)
emigrated from India to the US
Context of Where I Come From (Elizabeth Brewster)
grew up in a small logging town in Canada
concerned about globalisation
Context of Report to Wordsworth (Boey Kim Cheng)
romantic poets
focuses on the importance of poetry
Context of Love Armed (Aphra Behn)
first English woman to make her living purely from writing
was a spy in Antwerp
Context of Lament (Gillian Clarke)
mournful song
about the Persian Gulf War
details come from reports in the media
Context of Follower (Seamus Heaney)
he resisted becoming a farmer like his father
appreciated its beauty in his poetry
Context of Storyteller (Liz Lochhead)
The Grimm Sisters gives life to forgotten women
celebrates domesticity
Context of Before the Sun (Charles Mungoshi)
Zimbabwean
wrote about nature and the human condition
Context of A Married State
Katherine Philips:
her poems were written for her friends
her husband was 38 years older and they lived apart
Context of Carpet-Weavers, Morocco (Carol Rumens)
she travelled a lot
place of cultural meeting and exchange
rich history in trade