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| A WIFE IN LONDON (LOVE/WAR) -An ironic poem about a woman who finds out her husband has died then receives a letter from him telling her ho he is looking forward to seeing her again. -The routine is the same each day - nothing has changed. -Dark, mysterious imagery suggests loss of life & happiness. 'He - has fallen - in the far South Land' 'Page-full of his hoped return/...And of new love that they would learn' LINK: The Manhunt | THE MANHUNT (LOVE/WAR) -Describes how a woman (Laura) tends for her husband (Eddie) after he is injured during a war. -The couple used to be intimate but this injury has harmed them both OR they have been brought closer together. -Military imagery describes injuries suffered by Eddie. -Describes the PTSD Eddie suffers. 'the fractured rudder of shoulder blade' 'a sweating, unexploded mine/buried deep in his mind' LINK: Dulce Et Decorum Est |
| DEATH OF A NATURALIST (TIME/CHILDHOOD) -'Death' describes a loss of childhood innocence. -Lots of juxtaposition of calm and grotesque imagery - 'warm thick slobber'. -Tone change between stanzas - growing up and maturing. -Reflecting on bad memories - sort of the opposite of 'The Prelude'. 'But best of all was the warm thick slobber/Of frogspawn' 'The great slime kings/Were gathered there for vengeance' LINK: The Prelude | SONNET 43 (LOVE) -A woman describes how much she loves her husband. -Subverts traditional love poems as the woman puts the man on the pedestal. -Uses religious imagery to show how eternal her love is. -Feels like a prayer OR wedding vows. 'I love thee to the depth and breadth and height/my soul can reach' 'I shall but love thee better after death.' LINK: Valentine |
| HAWK ROOSTING (POWER/NATURE) -Describes how a hawk abuses his absolute power over the forest - arrogant and narcissistic. -Metaphor for Hitler's reign of terror in Germany - overused his status. -The hawk is presented as a god, making it seem omnipotent and immovable. -Has power over life and death - 'allotment of death' 'It took the whole of Creation/To produce my foot, my each feather' 'My eye has permitted no change./I am going to keep things like this.' LINK: Ozymandias | LONDON (WAR/PLACE) - A political message about the corruption of London. -Messages of revolt and rebellion - ideas of the downtrodden rising up against their oppressors. -Corruption in the Church - anti-organised religion. -Romantic themes. 'And mark in every face I meet/Marks of weakness, marks of woe.' 'Every black'ning Church appalls;/And the hapless Soldier's sigh/Runs in blood down Palace walls.' LINK: Living Space |
| TO AUTUMN (NATURE) -Love letter personifying Autumn as a woman. -Summer is plentiful, and time seems to stand still. -Autumn could represent how Keats was nearing the end of his life - he might have known he had TB. -Lots of sensory description - bringing you there with him. 'Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep./Drows'd with the fume of poppies' 'Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;/And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn' LINK: She Walks in Beauty | THE SOLDIER (WAR) -Political propaganda about how great it is to fight for England. - Religious imagery - ideas of washing off sin by fighting for your country. -A patriotic death is a redemption from sin. -Sonnet form. -England is depicted as happy and holy. -Rupert Brooke fought and died on the Western Front - he wrote the poem in 1914. 'A body of England's, breathing English air' 'In heart at peace, under an English heaven.' LINK: Dulce Et Decorum Est |
| AFTERNOONS (TIME/NATURE) -Dark satire about society - melancholy undertones. -Every day seems the same. -Children push their parents to the side and chain them up in their lives - they only live for their children. -Love fades with age - afternoon represents middle age (similar with 'To Autumn'). 'In the hollows of afternoons/Young mothers assemble/At swing and sandpit/Setting free their children.' 'Something is pushing them/To the side of their own lives.' LINK: As Imperceptibly as Grief | SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY (LOVE) -Lord Byron describes the beauty he sees in his cousin by marriage. -Romantic influences - compares her to nature and the beauty of the world. -Emphasises the contrast between light and dark - her sweetness is juxtaposed by Byron's dark thoughts OR she has two sides. -Describes how perfect she is. 'Thus mellowed to that tender light/Which heaven to gaudy day denies.' 'A mind at peace with all below,/A heart whose love is innocent!' LINK: To Autumn |
| DULCE ET DECORUM EST (WAR) -Cynical and anti-war - makes use of the phrase 'Dulce et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori', meaning 'how sweet it is to die for your country'. -Describes a gas attack and how one man dies horrifically. -Owen thought that war was a waste of lives and affected too many innocent people. -He turned the phrase on its head by making it seem like a dishonourable death. 'deaf even to the hoots/Of gas shells dropping softly behind' 'He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning' LINK: The Manhunt | LIVING SPACE (PLACE) -Describes slum life - higgledy-piggledy houses, no straight lines, everything is jumbled up and connected. -Unique -nothing fits together. -Discusses the fragility of faith - life is a delicate gift, and appears in the most unlikely of places. -No rhyme scheme and irregular line length represent themes in the poem. 'Into this rough frame,/someone has squeezed/a living space' 'as if they were/the bright, thin walls of faith' LINK: London |
| OZYMANDIAS (POWER/TIME) -Uses an ancient ruler as a metaphor for the ruling classes of the time. -Everything eventually succumbs to time and is destroyed - nothing is eternal. -Even the mightiest of rulers will fall. -Lots of imagery of decay - only fragments remain. ''My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' 'Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away.' LINK: Hawk Roosting | AS IMPERCEPTIBLY AS GRIEF (LIFE/NATURE/TIME) -Uses the seasons as a metaphor for life. -The end of Summer shows how Dickinson is entering middle-age. -She is isolated - Dickinson was a recluse. -She believes she didn't deserve niceties as she rejected people. -Regretful about the passing of time. 'As imperceptibly as Grief/The Summer lapsed away' 'A courteous, yet harrowing Grace/As Guest, that would be gone' LINK: Afternoons |
| MAMETZ WOOD (WAR) -Describes the digging up of the bodies of Welsh soldiers who fought in Belgium. -Written many years after the war - view in hindsight. -Ideas of wasted youth - images of fragility show how immature the soldiers were. -Soldiers lives were short and underappreciated - they died for no reason. 'a broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm' 'As if the notes they had sung/have only now, with this unearthing, slipped from their absent tongues.' LINK: The Manhunt | COZY APOLOGIA (LOVE) -Defending Dove's love for her husband (she was African-American, he was white German). -It's not a perfect love, but she doesn't care - 'We're content'. -Old loves were worthless and had no substance - this is real. -Religious imagery makes the love seem justified. 'I could pick anything and think of you' 'To keep from melancholy.../I fill this stolen time with you' LINK: Sonnet 43 |
| THE PRELUDE (CHILDHOOD) -Looking back on fond childhood memories of ice skating with friends. -Wordsworth was young and carefree - everything was exciting. -Becomes melancholy - he is alone, but he doesn't understand the feeling. -Longs to return to that time. 'All shod with steel,/We hiss'd along the polished ice, in games/Confederate' 'Into the tumult sent an alien sound/Of melancholy, not unnoticed' LINK: Death of a Naturalist | VALENTINE (LOVE) -Describes love in an unconventional way - uses the metaphor of an onion. -Mentions how love has many layers, and how it should be honest and realistic. -Shows that love is not perfect. -She will always love her partner - truthful love is the best kind of love. 'I give you an onion/It is a moon wrapped in brown paper' 'Its scent will cling to your fingers,/cling to your knife.' LINK: Sonnet 43 |
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