Poetry flashcards

Shades, stream

“mother _____ her eyes… looks my way”

“over the drifted _____”

Silence, tears

“When we two parted, in ___ __&__ _____ “: Cyclical structure, starts and ends with this

sever

“Half broken hearted, to _____ for years”

pale, kiss

“__ _____grew thy cheek and cold, colder thy__ ____”_

sorrow

“______ to this”

dew

“____ of the morning sunk chill on my brow”

vows, light

“_____ are all broken”

“______ is thy fame”

spoken, shame

“I hear thy name ______”

“share in its _____” - alliteration

knell, shudder

“_____ in mine ear”

“______ comes o’ver me”

Too well

“They know not I knew thee, who knew thee _______”

Rue

“Long, long shall I ____ thee, too deeply to tell”

silence, grieve

“In ______ we met -

in silence I ______”

heart, spirit

“Thy ______ could forget,

Thy ______ could deceive”

long years, greet'

Silence, tears

“If I should meet thee after _________, how should I _____ thee?” - rhetorical question, cyclical structure__

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“With ___ __and__ ____”

Lord Byron

* mad, bad, dangerous to know
* Thought to be based on one of his scandalous relationships - Lady Frances Webster
* Romantic Poet - 1788-1824

structure of WWTP

* 4 octaves
* Regular rhyme scheme
* Cyclical structure
* Flicks between past present and future

WWTP themes

* secret, forbidden love
* Regret, pain, loss, death
* Anger

WWTP comparisons

* neutral tones
* Winter swans
* Farmer’s bride
* Porphyria’s lover

Percy Shelley

* 1792-1822: Dies by drowning
* Marys Shelley’s husband
* Romantic poet
* Radical Athiest
* Close friend of Byron
* Challenged religious conventions, sometimes approach Pantheism or nature worship

mingle, ocean, heaven

“Fountains ______ with the river”

“Rivers mix with the ______”

“winds of ______ mix for ever”

emotion

“with a sweet ______”

single, divine

“nothing in the world is _____”

“all things by a law ______”

thine

“Why not I with ____?”

Repetition of mingle at start and end of stanza

mountains

“_______ kiss high heaven”- alliteration, personification

clasp

“Waves ____ one another”

flower

“No sister-_____ would be forgiven”

disdain

“_____’d its brother”

sunlight

“______ clasps the earth”

moonbeams

“________ kiss the sea”

kissings

“what are all these ______ worth, if thou kiss not me?”

LP structure

* rhyme scheme in both stanzas
* 2 stanzas, 2 questions, 2 sentences

LP comparisons

* when we two parted
* Sonnet 29
* Farmer’s bride

thee, thoughts

“I think of ____!”

“my _______ do twine and bud”- ext. metaphor male (tree), female (vine)

wild vines

“thee, as ____ ______ about a tree”

leaves

“Put out broad ______, …… nought to see”

green

“except the straggling _____…. Hides the wood”

palm

“_____-tree be it understood”- imperstuvd command

thoughts

“I won’t have my ______ instead of thee”

renew, tree

“Instantly _____ thy presence” - enjambment

“strong ____ should”

rustle, trunk

“_____ thy boughs”

“set thy _____ all bare”- phallic imagery of tree and vine

greenery

“bands of ______ which insphere thee”

heavily

“Drop _____ down - burst, shattered everywhere”- action verbs for onomatopoeia

deep joy, shadow

“__________ to see and hear thee”

“breathe within thy ______ a new air”

cyclical structure

“I do not think of thee- I am too near thee”

S29 structure

* octave and sennet
* Cyclical structure - WW2P
* Thoughts, demanded closeness, together as one

S29 themes & comparisons

* fufilment, longing, distance
* Climbing my grandfather, singh song
* Letters from Yorkshire, winter swans

pond, god

“stood by a _____ that winter day”

“sun was white …. Chidden of ____”

starving, ash

“Few leaves lay on _______ sod”

“fallen from an ____ and were grey”

tedious

“eyes that rove over ______ riddles of years ago”

love

“Lost the more by our ______”

deadest

“smile …. Was the _____ thing”

strength

“alive enough to have ______ to die”

bitterness

“grin of _______ swept thereby”

ominous

“like an ______ bird a wing”

deceives

“keen lessons that love ________”

wrong

“wrings with _______, have shaped to me”

god

“____- curst sun”

greyish

“pond edged with _______ leaves”

NT structure

* cyclical structure: Leaves and pond
* 4 quatrains and abba structure
* Enjambment

NT themes

pain, loss, death, bitterness, anger, nature

NT comparisons

* When we two parted
* Eden Rock
* Winter swans

potatoes

“digging his garden, planting _________”: Alliteration

lapwings

“first ________ return”- spring, set in February

Singing

“his knuckles _______ …. As they reddened in the warmth”: Enjambment, personification

romance

“not ______, simply how things are”

seasons

“In the cold, seeing the _______ turning:” Alliteration, enjambment

headlines

“my heartful of ________”: Alliteration

feeding

“_______ words onto a blank screen”: Personification

sow

“Is your life more real because you dig and _____?”

waterbutt, clearing

“You wouldn't say … breaking ice on a _______”

“______ a path through the snow”

world, light

“It’s you who sends me word of that other ______”

“pouring air and ____ into an envelope”

houses

“same news in different _____”

souls

“_____ tap out messages across the icy miles”

LFY themes

* communication
* Love
* Long distance relationship
* Longing
* Nature

LFY structure

* 5 unrhymed tercets
* Irregular rhyme structure
* Enjambment 1-2 stanza, 2-3 stanza

LFY

* mother any distance
* Climbing my grandfather
* before you were mine
* Follower

Maura Dooley

* relationship with her father
* Born in Cornwall, moved to London for work

Farmer’s bride

eighteen, turning

“_______ years ago”

“sunny day with leaves just ______”

ruled

“touch lines new ______- since I watched you play”

satellite, orbit

“like a _______”

“wrenched from its ______” - hyperbole, simile, enjambment

drifting

“go ______ away”

Scatter

“________ of boys”

walking away

“__________ from me towards…”

pathos, wilderness

“with the _________ __of a half-fledged thing set free into a__ ____________”

gait

“_____ of one who finds no path where the path should be”

hesitant, winged

“_______ figure, eddying away”

“like a _____ seed loosened from its parent stem”

convey

“I never quite grasp to ______”

scorching, fire’s

“nature’s give and take - the small, the ______ _______

__ordeals which__ ____ one’s irresolute clay”

gnaws

“worse partings ….. ________ at my mind still”

perfectly, walking away

“roughly saying what God alone could _______ show”

“selfhood begins with a _________”

letting go

“love is proved in the ___________”

WA structure

* 4x5 stanzas
* 1,3,5 rhyme
* conversational tone - reflected in rhythm of poem’s metre
* title repeated

WA comparisons

* mother any distance
* Winter swans
* Before you were mine

WA key themes

INDEPENDENCE, AGING, REFLECTION, CHILDHOOD, MEMORY, PARENTHOOD, NATURE, PARTING

waiting

“_______ for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock”

irish, terrier

“father, twenty five”

“same suit, of genuine _____ tweed”

“_____ jack still two years old and trembling at his feet”

sprigged, ribbon, wheat

“mother, twenty three”

“______ dress drawn at the waist”

“_______ in her straw hat has spread the white cloth over the grass”

“hair, colour of ________, takes on the light”

thermos, milk, paper, three, blue

“pours tea from a _______”

“_____ straight from an old HP sauce bottle”

“screw of ______…. cork”

“sets out the same ____ __plates, the tin cups painted.__ _____”- nostalgia

whitens

“sky ______ as if lit by three suns”