Poetry

Poetry

Family Love
1. Nettles
  1. Context: Vernon Scanell, Ex-Army, Wrote poem while deserting war
  2. Links to war
    1. "Called up tall recruits behind the shed"
      1. Conscription
    2. Does this with use of metaphors
  3. Fathers prespective
  4. "White blisters beaded his tender skin"
  5. Mix of positive and negative language
  6. Goes from innocent to dark
  7. Every second line rhymes
  8. Regular structure
  9. Circular narritive
  10. "Bed seemed a curious name for those green spears"
2. A child to his sick grandfather
  1. Context:Joanna Baillie, Romantic poet, 1762-1851
  2. Language: Semantic field of fragility
    1. "Legs begin to fail"
    2. "Can scarce support your bended course"
    3. "Wan and hollow are your cheeks"
  3. Past vs present
    1. "You used to smile and stroke my head"
    2. Juxtaposition
    3. Childs perspective
  4. ABAB Rhyme scheme- regular highlights serious and depressing tone
Loss of love
1. One Flesh
  1. Context: Elizabeth Jennings,Associated with "the movement"
  2. Rhyming scheme switches to highlight seperation
  3. Negative Language
  4. Daughters perspective
  5. Shifts in time- looking back
  6. Goes from Physical separation (beds) to mental
  7. "Strangely apart yet strangely close together"
  8. "Tossed up like a floatsdam"- leftovers of love
  9. Temp shows love- "Fire from which I came" "How cool they lie"
  10. Title reference to bible and soulmates
2. Neutral Tones
  1. Context: Tom Hardy, Traditionalist, Death of wife affected him
  2. "and were gray"- Lack of colour conveys tone
  3. "Winter day"
    1. "Sun was white"
      1. Conldness conveys relationship
  4. "The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing"
    1. Juxtaposition
  5. Pond- shallow and stagnant
    1. "love deceives"
      1. Personifies love and give negative characteristics
    2. Starts and ends with ponds
      1. Circular narrative highlights flatness of his love
  6. Past vs Present
Destructive power of relationships
1. A Complaint
  1. Context:Romantic Poet, William Wordsworth
  2. ABABCC Rhyme scheme
  3. "There is a change- and I am poor"
  4. " I am poor, Not in money but in love"
  5. Fountains- Things going well-Endless
    1. Well-Things going badly-shallow
  6. "Waters sleep" love sleeps
  7. Circular Narritive
  8. Past and Present juxtaposition
  9. Rhetorical questions
2. My last duchess
  1. Context: Robert Browning, focus on dramatic monologue
  2. Sister tone
  3. Enjambment
  4. No Rhyme scheme
  5. Murder of wife
  6. "Then all smiles stopped together"
  7. Envious tone
Obsessive love/Unconventional love
1. I wanna be yours
  1. Context: John Cooper Clarke, Punk Poet, Musical poems, Social REalism
  2. Complex Rhyme Scheme- Shows erratic nature
  3. Uses mundane objects rather than romantic ones
    1. "Let me be your vaccum cleaner breathing in your dust"
    2. "If you like your coffee hot let me be your coffee pot"
  4. Repeated refrain "Let me be your" shows obsesed nature
  5. Lack of punctuation (also in title) highlights punk poet nature
  6. Repetition of deep highlights his eratic nature and obsession
  7. "I dont wanna be hers" flips poem on its head. Admission of cheating?
2. Valentine
  1. Context
    1. Carol Anne Duffy
      1. Feminist
      2. Contoversial
  2. Controlling, Dominant, Obessive tone
    1. "I give you an onion"
      1. Onion Used as extended metaphor
        "Its platinum loops shrink to a wedding ring"
    2. "possesive and faithful"
  3. Semantic field of danger
    1. "Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips"
    2. "Cling to your knife"

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