Poetry

Midterm break

• Poet: Seamus Heaney
• Theme: $Death$, $Lonliness$, $Nostalgia$, $Youth$
• Tone: $Sadness$
• Imagery:   * Poet waiting to be collected   * $“Four foot box a foot for every year”$
• Language: Colloquial

Digging

• Poet: Seamus Heaney
• Theme: $Nostalgia$, $Ancestors$
• Tone: $Nostalgia$
• Imagery:   * Imagery of his father and grandfather   * Digging potatoes and cutting turf
• Language: Colloquial

Blackberry picking

• Poet: Seamus Heaney
• Theme: $Nostalgia$, $Youth$, $Memories$, $Disappointment$
• Tone: $Happiness$
• Imagery:   * Colour   * Taste   * Texture   * “$Thorns$“   * Children picking blackberries
• Language: Rich/Sensuous

The Forge

• Poet: Seamus Heaney
• Theme: $Mystery$, $Unknown$, $Sacred$, $Creative$
• Tone: $Memory$
• Imagery:   * “$Fantail of sparks$“   * Anvil as an altar     * Respect
• Language: $Imagery$

The Road not Taken

• Poet: Robert Frost
• Theme: $Decisions$, $Nature$, $Life$
• Tone: Positive?
• Imagery:   * “$Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”$   * $“I could not travel both”$
• Language: Colours

Stopping by the Woods

• Poet: Robert frost
• Theme: $Decisions$, $Mystery$, $Questions$
• Tone: $Quiet$
• Imagery:   * Rhyme   * Beautiful imagery as the man stops at the woods as the snow falls around him   * Quiet   * Peaceful
• Language: $Assonance$

Tich Miller

• Poet: Wendy Cope
• Theme: $Bullying$, $Loneliness$, $Death$
• Tone: $Sadness$
• Imagery: This poem focuses on the image of the two girls standing against the wires in every sentence
• Language: $Descriptive$

Dulce et decorum est

• Poet: Wilfred Owen
• Theme: $war$, $death$

Base Details

• Poet: Seigfried Sasson
• Theme: war, unhappiness