English-Poetry!

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higher Junior Cert (English) Flashcards on English-Poetry!, created by MidgetNolan on 03/06/2014.
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Mid-Term Break: Poet-Seamus Heaney Quick Explanation: He is at school and his neighbours pick him up. He comes home to his dad crying in the porch and his mam was crying angry tearless sighs. He found out that his 4 year old brother was hit by a car and killed him. Funeral Blues: Poet-W.H.Auden Quick Explanation: He explains to us that he wants everything to stop cause his loved one has died, and he wants the funeral to be like someone importants funeral.
Back in the playground blues: Poet- Adrian Mitchell Quick Explanation: He describes the playground as the killing ground where the bullies picked on anything that moved. Base Details: Poet-Siegfried Sassoon Quick Explanation: He tells us about how young soliders had to go out to war while the majors would stay in amazing hotels "guzzling and gulping" and how young soliders would die on the battlefield and majors would die in their beds.
Advice to a teenage daughter: Poet-Isobel Thrilling Quick Explanation: She gives advice to her daughter as she tries to impress him but the mother knows she cant win him over. Thickness of Ice: Poet-Liz Loxley Quick Explanation: Explains a relationship between to people that slowly starts to tear apart and they soon become enemys.
Lake Isle Of Innisfree: Poet-W.B.Yeats Quick Explanation: He moves to London and is homesick. He wants to go back to Sligo ad have a new life with lots of expectations. Topics: >Nature >Love >War >Death
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