Poetry

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Isabella

Cards (17)

PAPA-T, Fred D'Aguiar:
"tin-soldiering it through rugged country, picked off one by one by poison-tipped blow-darts or arrows" Imagines Crimean war in Guyana in jungle warfare
"musket-clap and popping cannons" - accurate, confusion of setting
"he'd cut short to shout"
"into a whale's crying place" - calming, beautiful
"All eyes on our sweet seasalter" - pride
VOLTA - "These days"
"the perfect-lined face of a blank page, startles at first"
"it has me itching to bring him reeling-off in that tongue"
"Honour the charge they made! Honour the light brigade, Noble six hundred: to hear, to disobey"
ENVY, Mary Lamb:
"And if this tree were discontent, or wished to change its natural bent, it all in vain would fret." - unpleasant words, envy is like this, punctuation causes emphasis
"It ne'er had seen its own red rose... or it could ne'er be discontent" - repetition
"like such a blind and senseless tree as I've imagined this to be, all envious persons are"
"some pretty flower in their own mind, some talent that is rare." endstopping, confident
AABCCB rhyme, fairy-tale like
BOAT STEALING, William Wordsworth: Before VOLTA
"The moon was up, the lake was shining clear"
"just like a man who walks with stately step... it was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure"
"small circles glittering idly in the moon... sparkling light"
"heaving through the water like a swan" - sense of belonging
IAMBIC PENTAMETER = ROWING
BOAT STEALING, William Wordsworth: After VOLTA
"a huge cliff, upreared its head: I struck, and struck again"
"growing still in stature, the huge cliff rose up between me and the stars"
"like a living thing strode after me. With trembling hands I turned away"
"I went with grave and serious thoughts"
"there was a darkness - call it solitude; or blank desertion"
"no colours of green fields"
"but huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men moved slowly through my mind by day, and were the trouble of my dreams."
DOS, Lord Byron:
Anaphoric "and" = speed, shows inevitability
"like a wolf on the fold" "purple and gold" - impressive, savage.
"like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green/Autumn hath blown"
"Angel of Death spread his wings" "breathed in the face of the foe" "their hearts but once heaved for ever grew still".
"rust on his mail... tents were all silent, the banners alone... the lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown".
"widows of Ashur are loud in their wail... idols are broke... hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!"
ANAPAESTIC TETRAMETER, RHYME COUPLETS
THERES A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT, Emily Dickinson:
"Tacsol, that oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes"
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"Heavenly Hurt... we can find no scar, but internal difference"
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"None may teach it... Tis the seal despair- an imperial affliction sent us of the Air"
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"When it comes, the Landscape listens - shadows - hold their breath"
"When it goes, 'tis like the Distance on the look of Death"
Narrative voice is introspective, exploring effect of light
ABCB RHYME
PARARHYME 1ST AND 3RD LINES
UNUSUAL SYNTAX
SFTP, Frances E.W. Harper:
Anaphoric "let me"
"the people... the old and young" -
"to stir like a battle-cry" .
"Not for the clashing of sabres, for carnage nor strife"
"to thrill the hearts of men with more abundant life" .
"amid life's fever and fret... relax their tension".
"for little children, before their footsteps stray"..
"Our world, so worn and weary, needs music, pure and strong, to hush the jangle and discords of sorrow, pain and wrong" .
"till war and crime shall cease; and the hearts of men grow tender"
"girdle the world with peace"
REGULAR RHYME, QUARTRAINS
WLHDTW, Ilya Kaminsky:
"we protested
but not enough"
"we opposed them but not
enough"
"invisible house by invisible house by invisible house-"
"I took a chair outside and watched the sun"
"street of money, in the city of money, in the country of money, our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war"
FREE VERSE, EMJAMBMENT, LEARN "OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND"
VERGISSMEINNICHT, Keith Douglas:
"nightmare ground... soldier sprawling in the sun."
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"the frowning barrel of his gun
overshadowing."
"he hit my tank with one like the entry of a demon"
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"Look... dishonoured picture"
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"abased... mocked at by his own equipment
that's hard and good when he's decayed."
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"she would weep... the swart flies move... dust upon the paper eye... burst stomach like a cave"
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"the lover and killer are mingled.. had one body and one heart. And the death who had the solider singled has done the lover mortal hurt"
EMJAMBMENT, REGULAR STANZAS, IRREGULAR RHYME
WWTL?, Denise Levertov - STANZA 1
1.Did...Lanterns of stone? 2. reverence the opening of buds?3. were they inclined to quiet laughter? 4.use bone and ivory 5.had they an epic poem? 6. distinguish between speech and singing?
Past tense, sinister
WWTL?, Denise Levertov - STANZA 2
1."their light hearts turned to stone"
2."it is not remembered... perhaps they gathered once... but after their children were killed there were no more buds"
3."laughter is bitter to the burnt mouth."
4."All the bones were charred"
5."their life was in rice and bamboo"
"when peaceful clouds were reflected... water buffalo stepped surely"
6."When bombs smashed those mirrors, there was time only to scream."
"It is reported their singing resembled the flight of moths in moonlight. Who can say? It is silent now."
FREE VERSE
LAMENT, Gillian Clarke:
Anaphoric "for the" - memorial, elegy poem
"pulsing burden... laid in their nest of sickness"
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"cormorant in his funeral silk... veil of iridescence on the sand"
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"ocean's lap with it's mortal stain... the soldier with his uniform on fire"
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"boy fusilier who joined for the company... in it for the music"
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"whale struck dumb by the missile's thunder"
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"slow dying... veiled sun and the stink of anger"
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"burnt earth and the sun put out... scalded ocean... blazing well. For vengeance, and the ashes of language"
GULF WAR, TERCETS
COLONIZATION IN REVERSE, Louise Bennett:
"ah feel like me heart gwine burs- Jamaica people colonizing Englan in reverse."
"By de hundred, by de tousan... by de ship-load, by de plane-load"
"an settle in de motherlan."
"what a islan! What a people! ... an tun history upside dung!"
"dem shipping off dem countryman like fire"
"Jamaica live fi bread box out a English peoplee mout"
"what a devilment... dem face war an brave de worse; but ah wonderin how dem gwine stan colonizin in reverse."
PATOIS, PRIDE, ABCB RHYME, CALYPSO
FLAG, John Agard:
Anaphoric "what's that"
Fluttering->unfurling->rising->flying
"It's just a piece of cloth" x4
"brings a nation to its knees->makes the guts of men grow bold->dares the coward to relent->will outlive the blood you bleed
"Just ask for a flag my friend.
Then blind your conscience to the end."
TERCETS, FLAG METONYM FOR PATROTISM
THIRTEEN, Caleb Femi:
"you will be thirteen...cornered... who will"
"You'll laugh. Thirteen, you'll tell him: you're thirteen."
"little stars... you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars"
"You will show the warmth of your teeth... he will see you powerless, plump. You will watch the two men cast lots for your organs."
"they are, in fact, dying stars on the verge of becoming black holes."
EXTENDED METAPHOR, THIRTEEN UNLUCKY, VARIED STANZA, NO RHYME
HONOUR KILLING, Imtiaz Dharker:
"At last I'm taking off"
"I swore for years... more out of habit than design"
"Born wearing it,
I believed I had no choice"
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"black veil of a faith that made me faithless to myself, that tied my mouth, gave my god a devil's face and muffled my own voice"
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"these lacy things that feed dictator dreams... rings rattling in a tin cup of needs that beggared me"
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"this skin, and then the face, the flesh, the womb"
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"Let's see... in here... cage of bone"
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"out here... making, crafting plotting, at my new geography"
STANZAS SHORTER TO SHOW REMOVAL
PARTITION, Sujata Bhatt:
"she could hear the cries of people stranded"
"she felt it was endless - their noise - a new sound added"
"So she stood in the garden listening"
"Even the birds sounded different - and the shadows cast by the neem trees brought no consolation"
"And each day passed with her listening to the cries of the people."
"India was always there... I still feel guilty about that... how could they have let a man who knew nothing about geography divide a country?"
LINE PLACEMENT = PARTITION LINE