Anthology Poems at a glance Meaning M Context

Anthology Poems at a glance: Meaning (M), Context (C), Quotes (Q), Language & Structure (L/S) London; Blake M: Questions life & changes C: Industrial Revolution, From Song of experience & innocence, rejects religion Q: 1“charter’d Thames” 2“Every cry”, 3”Soldier’s sigh” L/S: 1 Noun phrase, 2 repetition, sibilance The Manhunt; Armitage M: emotional response to shooting C: Bosnia, peacekeeper, shot, Eddie & wife Laura Q: 1“frozen river”, 2“mind & attend”, 3“unexploded mine” L/S: 1 simile, 2 verbs, 3 metaphor & enjambment Sonnet 43; Barrett Browning M: extreme love of husband C: rejects religion, disowned by father, suffers severe illnesses Q: 1”How do I love thee? ”, 2”ideal Grace”, 3“better after death. ” L/S: 1 Rhetorical Q, 2 Religious connotations, 3 Statement The Soldier; Brooke M: Propaganda for men to go to war C: before the war, lies, he died not having seen war Q: 1“foreign field”, 2”England bore”, 3”dreams happy as her day” L/S: 1 alliteration, 2 repetition, 3 personification She Walks in Beauty; Byron M: admiration of female at a funeral C: about his cousin, ladies man, fought with the Greeks Q: 1“cloudless climes”, 2”raven tresses”, 3”love is innocent!” L/S: 1 alliteration, 2 connotations, 3 end-stopping Living Space; Dharker M: commenting on shanty towns in India C: India, social justice, poverty Q: 1”straight lines”, 2”squeezed”, 3 “thin walls of faith” L/S: 1 noun phrase, 2 verb, 3 metaphor Cozy Apologia; Dove M: love during a hurricane C: autobiographical, hurricane Floyd, guilt Q: 1”set me free”, 2”Oddly male”, 3”stolen time” L/S: Valentine; Duffy M: real presentation of love C: Poet Laureate, feminist, contemporary poet Q: 1”an onion”, 2”blind you with tears”, 3”cling” L/S: 1 metaphor, 2 simile, 3 verb As Imperceptibly as Grief; Dickinson M: death of summer C: reclusive, American, interested in civil war Q: 1“lapsed away”, 2”Grace”, 3”light escape” L/S: 1 adjective, 2 religious connotations, 3 personification

Anthology Poems at a glance: Meaning (M), Context (C), Quotes (Q), Language & Structure (L/S) A Wife in London; Hardy M: wife gets telegram re husbands death next day a letter from him C: Boer war, isolation, olden days Q: 1“tawny vapour”, 2”Flashed news”, 3”worm now knows” L/S: 1 pathetic fallacy, 2 noun phrase, 3 metaphor Death of a Naturalist: Heaney M: change: interest to fear nature C: sent away, from Ireland, educated Q: 1”gargled delicately”, 2”tell the weather”, 3 poised like mud grenades” L/S: 1 adverb, 2 statement, 3 simile Hawk Roosting: Hughes M: superiority - bird of prey C: inspired by nature, nazi emblem, religious cynic Q: 1“I sit”, 2 “tearing off heads”, 3 “my right” L/S: 1 first person, 2 verbs & violent connotations, 3 pronoun To Autumn; Keats M: celebrate the seasons C: romantic poet, TB, death of family Q: “mists and mellow”, 2”fume of poppies”, 3”twitter in the skies” L/S: 1 alliteration, 2 metaphor, 3 senses Afternoons; Larkin M: family life & observations C: cynical views, never married, one-dimensional lifestyle Q: “Summer is fading: ”, 2”Our Wedding”, 3 “pushing” L/S: 1 metaphor & end-stopping, 2 italics, 3 verb Dulce et Decorum Est: Owen M: cynicism about the reality war, brutality C: response to propaganda poems, lies, disillusionment Q: 1“like old beggars under sacks” 2”drowning”, 3”such high zest” L/S: 1 simile, 2 verb, 3 sarcasm Ozymandias; Shelley M: reflects how power corrupts C: romantic poet, about Pharaoh Ramesses, anti-corruption Q: “Two vast and trunkless”, 2”cold command”, 3 “sands stretch” L/S: 1 adjectives, 2 alliteration, 3 sibilance Mametz Wood; Sheers M: to memorise soldiers from the Welsh regiment C: Welsh regiment, forgotten, Battle of the Somme Q: “wasted young”, 2”bird’s egg of a skull”, 3 “absent tongue” L/S: 1 adjective, 2&3 metaphor Excerpt from The Prelude; Wordsworth M: child's ice skating memory C: autobiographical, parents died young, Lake District Q: 1”toll’d six”, 2 hiss’d”, 3”died away” L/S: 1 pathetic fallacy, 2 sibilance, 3 imagery