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