English poetry

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Martin Lenard

Cards (60)

  • Snack bar
    Important theme
    Ignorance of society
    - "his life depends on many who would evade him"
    - a few heads turn"
    - "wherever he could go, it would be dark"
    - "no one sees his face"
  • Snack bar
    Human issue
    Attitude towards the disabled (ignorance)
    - "how frightening he is"
    - "wherever he could go, it would be dark"
    - "announce his most pitiful needs in a public place"
    - "few heads turn in a crowded evening snack bar"
  • Snack bar
    Painful experience
    Plight of the old man
    - "long blind, hunchback born, half paralysed"
    - "like a monstrous animal caught in a tent"
    - "washes feebly"
    - "clinical gleam" / "life depends on many who would evade him"
  • Snack bar
    Setting
    Familiar/memorable
    - "In the snack bar"
    - "crowded evening snack bar"
    - "clinical gleam"
    -> description of snack bar, the old man, toilet journey
  • Snack bar
    Character
    The old man
    - "dismal hump"
    - "stained beltless garberdine"
    - "face not seen"
    -> description of man
  • Good friday
    Important theme
    Social class
    - "your an educatit man"
    - "bliddy ignorant"
    - "working man has nae education"
    - "I dont know what today's in aid of"
  • Good friday
    Human issue
    Social class
    - "D's this go-"
    - "I don't know [...] aid of"
    -> repetition of bliddy ignorant
    -> Education referances
  • Good friday
    Painful experience
    Suffering from lack of education
    -> accent in general, demonstrates lack of proper education
    -> basically all social class divide/lack of educaiton quotes
  • Good friday
    Setting
    Glasgow/Familiarity
    - "D's this go-"
    - "ye understand"
    - "nae education"
    - "bath street"
    -> accent and bus familiarity
  • God friday
    Character
    (Drunk) man with awareness (of religion/education)
    - "I don't knwo what today's in aid of"
    - "nae education"
    - "bliddy ignorant" (repetition)
    - "whether christ was - crucified or was he -"
  • Sonnet
    Important theme
    Poverty (social class)
    - "old mattresses"
    - "brick and bric-a-brac"
    - "last mistresses"
    - "kettle whimpers on a crazy hob"
    - " air too poor to rob"
    - "roses of mould"
  • Sonnet
    Human issue
    Issue of poverty
    - "no windows left to smash"
    - "the man lies late"
    - "air too poor to rob"
    - "cracks deepen", "rats crawl", "old mattresses", "backcourt trash" -> building decay
  • Sonnet
    Painful experience
    Experience of the man in the building/the building itself
    - "letting his coughs fall thinly"
    - "roses of mould"
    - "backcourt trash"
    - "condemned to stadn"
    - "whimpers on a crazy hob"
  • Sonnet
    Setting
    Poverty setting
    -> description of tenement/man
    - "mean wind wanders"
    - "no windows left to smash"
    - "cracks deepen"
    - "man lies late since he has lost his job"
    - "letting his coughs fall thinly"
  • Sonnet
    Character
    Character of the man
    - "smokes on one elbow"
    - "man lies late"
    - "lost his job"
    - "letting his coughsfall thinly"
  • 5th
    Important theme
    Societal ignorance/selfishness of modern society
    - "complete the operation"
    - "loot what they can smartly"
    - "their faces show no expression"
    - "sharp, clear night"
    - "two drivers keep their eyes on the road"
  • 5th
    Human issue
    Urban violence/ignorance
    - "their faces show no expression"
    - "sharp, clear night"
    - "two drivers keep their eyes on the road"
    - "pushed them"
  • 5th
    Painful experience
    Physical pain of the assault
    - "Bristling with fragments of glass"
    - "Spurts arterial blood"
    - "beginnings of pain"
    - "wet-look white coat"
    - "girls leg is caught"
  • 5th
    Setting
    Description of fall/injury/theives/weather
    - "sharp, clear night"
    - "sauchiehall street"
    -> injury details
    - "leg has caught"
    - "starfished out"
  • 5th
    Character
    The theives
    - "two youths"
    - "complete the operation"
    - "loot what they can smartly"
    - "their faces show no expression"
  • Trio
    Important theme
    Idea of hope/mew beginnings
    - "monsters of the year go back"
    - "scattered back"
    - "can't bear this march of three"
    - "laughter [...] gaurd"

    Theme of friendship
    - "vale of tears is powerless before you"
    - "yet not vanished"
    - "gaurd"
    - "scattered back"
  • Trio
    Human issue
    Human kindness
    - "cloud of happiness"
    - "vale of tears is powerless before you"
    - "monsters of the year go back"
    - "march of three"
  • Trio
    Painful experiences
    Contrast of a painful eperience of sadness and deppression of winter with the trio's happiness and joy
    - "monsters of the year go back, scattered back"
    - "cloud of happiness"
    - "the vale of tears is powerless before you"
    - "laughter ringing round them like a gaurd"
  • Trio
    Setting
    Memorable - description of trio
    - "a young man and two girls"
    - "the young man [...] carries a chihuahua"
    - "[...] milky plastic cover, tried at the neck with silver tinsel tape"

    Sense of place/realism
    - "sharp winter evening"
    - "buchanan street"
  • Trio
    Character
    The trio itself + items
    - "tiny royal stewart tartan coat"
    - "white shawl"
    - "brisk sprig of mistletoe"
    -> general description of trio adn their effect
  • Winter
    Important theme
    Death/challanging environment (/passing of time)
    - "of ice that sees nothing and nothing sees"
    - "grey dead pane"
    - "the woods that fall and decay"
    - "many a summer dyes"
    - "heavy light"
    - "when fog drives monstrous"
    -> repetition of fades emphasise graduality process
  • Winter
    Human issue
    Issue of time passing
    - "the year goes by"
    - "fades off, goes, the scene, the voices fade"
    - "swan on binghams pond - a ghost"
    -> "fades" repetition
  • Winter
    Painful experience
    Inevitability of death- "sees nothing and nothing sees"- "ice"- "dearest blues not there"- "the woods that fall anddecay" - decay repetition-> death references (heavy light, summer dyes)
  • Winter
    Setting
    Description of the pond, change in season, harsh environment
    - "the swan on binghams pond, a ghost, comes and goes"
    - "woods that fall, decay"
    - "dark comes down"
    - "heavy light"
  • Winter
    Caracter
    Morgan himself, the changes he experiences
    - "and even in my room"
    - "and on this paper, I do not know"
    - "about that grey dead pane of ice [...]"
  • Snack bar
    Important theme
    Ignorance of society
    - "his life depends on many who would evade him"
    - a few heads turn"
    - "wherever he could go, it would be dark"
    - "no one sees his face"
  • Snack bar
    Human issue
    Attitude towards the disabled (ignorance)
    - "how frightening he is"
    - "wherever he could go, it would be dark"
    - "announce his most pitiful needs in a public place"
    - "few heads turn in a crowded evening snack bar"
  • Snack bar
    Painful experience
    Plight of the old man
    - "long blind, hunchback born, half paralysed"
    - "like a monstrous animal caught in a tent"
    - "washes feebly"
    - "clinical gleam" / "life depends on many who would evade him"
  • Snack bar
    Setting
    Familiar/memorable
    - "In the snack bar"
    - "crowded evening snack bar"
    - "clinical gleam"
    -> description of snack bar, the old man, toilet journey
  • Snack bar
    Character
    The old man
    - "dismal hump"
    - "stained beltless garberdine"
    - "face not seen"
    -> description of man
  • Good friday
    Important theme
    Social class
    - "your an educatit man"
    - "bliddy ignorant"
    - "working man has nae education"
    - "I dont know what today's in aid of"
  • Good friday
    Human issue
    Social class
    - "D's this go-"
    - "I don't know [...] aid of"
    -> repetition of bliddy ignorant
    -> Education referances
  • Good friday
    Painful experience

    Suffering from lack of education
    -> accent in general, demonstrates lack of proper education
    -> basically all social class divide/lack of educaiton quotes
  • Good friday
    Setting
    Glasgow/Familiarity
    - "D's this go-"
    - "ye understand"
    - "nae education"
    - "bath street"
    -> accent and bus familiarity
  • God friday
    Character
    (Drunk) man with awareness (of religion/education)
    - "I don't knwo what today's in aid of"
    - "nae education"
    - "bliddy ignorant" (repetition)
    - "whether christ was - crucified or was he -"