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