POETRY

• Adlestrop: Edward Thomas

  
  

  • born in London
  • suffered from depression
  • killed at war in 1917 after joining army in 1915
  • poems often focussed on life before the war
  • love of nature
• Westminster bridge - William Wordsworth

  • one of founders of romantic movement
  • lived in lake district
  • lived in France during French revolution however his loyalties lay within England
  • suffered from depression after death of his daughter
• London - William Blake

  • did not like organised religion
  • wrote about rebelling against misuse of wealth and power
  • strong views that the church wasn't helping those who suffered
  • romantic poet
  • French revolution was taking place during this time
• Absence - Elizabeth Jennings

  • born in Lincolnshire and moved to oxford
  • became a librarian in oxford and stayed there her whole life
  • member of the movement - they neglected the poetic formal poetry of previous eras
  • suffered from serious mental illness which became a common focus for her poems
• Steward Island - Fleur Adcock

  • wrote in 1934
  • moved to uk at 5 but returned to New Zealand
  • 2 unhappy marriages
  • left NZ to live in UK as an adult
  • Stewart island is 3rd largest island in New Zealand
• To autumn - John Keats

  • Keats lived between 1795 - 1821
  • wrote the poem in 1819
  • autobiographical poem
  • Keats massively celebrates Autumn
  • passed away from TB
  • written because of a walk he took in Winchester in 1819
• I started early - Emily Dickinson

  • lived between 1830 - 1886
  • written in 1862
  • American poet
  • she was a recluse
  • unmarried
  • thought to have had relationships with Susan Gilbert and Otis Philips Lord
• Hurricane hits England - Grace Nichols

  • 1950 - still alive
  • Guyana to England 1987
  • written about cultural identity - poem is about how she moved to the UK and where she fits in
  • based off the great storm of 1987
• In Romney marsh - John Davidson

  • 1857 - 1909
  • he was a poet, playwright and novelist
  • inspired by Romanticism
  • committed suicide
  • the sublime - how powerful nature can be - both powerful and destructive
• where the picnic was - Thomas Hardy

  • written after his wife died
  • poem was dedicated to his wife
  • autobiographical poem
  • epigraph - introduces theme at start of poem - about traces of fire ( symbols for love )
  • novelist and poet
  • elegy - dedicated to someone who has died
• home thoughts from abroad - Robert Browning

  • her father didn't approve of the marriage
  • spent a large amount of his life in Italy on his own
  • written in 1845
  • poet/ playwright
  • had poor health
  • romanticism
• First Flight - U . A Fanthorpe

  • she was an English teacher
  • lived 1929 - 2009
  • worked in a psychiatric hospital
  • social / historical commentaries
  • rise of commercial flights
• Postcards from a travel Snob - Sophia Hannah

  • 1971
  • British poet and crime novelist
  • 1990s travel
  • GAP year / budget / package holidays
  • class difference
• to autumn form

  • ode
  • largely iambic pentameter
  • 3 stanzas - 11 lines long - few number of stanzas could be due to Keats describing how life is short ( circle of life )
  • varied rhyme scheme ABAB CDEDCCE
• Westminster bridge

  Petrarchan sonnet ( love poems about a city ) contrast to how romanticism looking at nature

  this is because he is describing it in the morning before the factories had opened when London is the most beautiful
• London

  quatrains

  ABAB rhythm scheme

  iambic tetrameter

  anapaest - used when describing the corruptness in stave 3

  rigidy is due to representing the rigidy and control of the city by people in power
• I started early

  lyric poem / ballad

  ABAB rhyme scheme

  6 quatrains

  iambic tetrameter
• where the picnic was

  elegy

  3 stanzas - unequal length

  irregular meter

  enjambment
• adlestrop

  4 quatrains

  ABCB rhyme scheme

  largely iambic tetrameter

  enjambment

  caesura
• home thoughts from abroad

  lyric poem

  2 stanzas

  metrical irregularity

  irregular rhyme scheme

  build up of excitement about his love for nature
• first flight

  free verse

  dual narrative

  enjambment -other narrator interrupts the narrator making the experienced flyer seem like a know it all
• Stewart island

  free verse

  dialogue

  enjambment

  caesura

  free verse makes it like a rant
• presents from my aunts in pakistan

  free verse

  fragmented lines

  varied stanza and line length

  representative of the narrator who can't quite grasp the cultural identity and how she fits in
• hurricane hits England

  free verse

  shape form

  varied stanza and line length
• nothings changed

  free verse

  7 stanzas

  unequal length

  enjambment

  cyclical structure
• postcard from a travel snob

  postcard conventions subverted - ''I do not wish anyone was here''

  4 x quatrains

  angry poem

  ABAB rhyme scheme

  enjambment and caesura
• in Romney marsh

  lyric poem

  ABAB rhyme scheme

  7 quatrains

  iambic tetrameter
• absence

  lyric poem

  quintets

  ABABA rhyme scheme

  iambic pentameter

  half rhyme

  enjambment