English Poetry Notes
Loves Farewell - Micheal Drayton
- a breakup
- Tone: determined and clinical ~ sympathetic
- Irony – say there is no hope (permanence of cancel vows) yet at end say may “recover”
- Personification of Love, Faith, passion, innocence
Structure
- Rhyming couplets
- Elizabethan Sonnet
- Love Sonnet ~ lyrical
To Althea, From Prison- Richard Lovelace
- P1: Romantic/physical love makes him freer than the Gods ~ love personified, gentle
intimacy in imagery, contrast between imagery of liberty and confinement (juxtaposition)
- P2: love of partying with friends
- P3: love of his king
- P4: If you have freedom of mind you cannot be truly imprisoned (Divine suggestion)
- Anaphora – repetition of word (“when” “our” ect.) at beginning of sentence
- Linnet: caged birds which sing
- Litany: listed / repetitive / recited
- Cavalier: refined, well dressed
Structure
, - Metrical structure with rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD ~ rigidity reflect imprisonment
- Use of repetition and anaphora start P1-3 with “when” ~ break in P4 (freedom through
imagination)
To the Night- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Apostrophe: directly address (Spirit of the Night= personified)
- Romantic Period ~use of natural imagery (Nature)
- Introspective poem ~ melancholy possibly depressed
- Longs for the night (free from demands of society) ~ dislikes the day
- Tone: yearning, longing, melancholy ~ urgent/ demanding
Structure
- Lyrical with flow and repetition, enjambment ~ rhythm
- Rhyme pattern ABABCCD
Refugee Blues- W.H Auden
- Tone: sad, depressed, despondent ~ ominous
- Yew- a tree
- Juxtaposition of wealth/living standards ~ highlights injustice and inequality
- Colon – indicates there is more to follow/ an explanation
- Irony clearly alive but say “officially dead” (clearly not)
- Daily bread ~ biblical allusion
- Hitler and antisemitism ~ predict/foreshadow WW2
Structure
Loves Farewell - Micheal Drayton
- a breakup
- Tone: determined and clinical ~ sympathetic
- Irony – say there is no hope (permanence of cancel vows) yet at end say may “recover”
- Personification of Love, Faith, passion, innocence
Structure
- Rhyming couplets
- Elizabethan Sonnet
- Love Sonnet ~ lyrical
To Althea, From Prison- Richard Lovelace
- P1: Romantic/physical love makes him freer than the Gods ~ love personified, gentle
intimacy in imagery, contrast between imagery of liberty and confinement (juxtaposition)
- P2: love of partying with friends
- P3: love of his king
- P4: If you have freedom of mind you cannot be truly imprisoned (Divine suggestion)
- Anaphora – repetition of word (“when” “our” ect.) at beginning of sentence
- Linnet: caged birds which sing
- Litany: listed / repetitive / recited
- Cavalier: refined, well dressed
Structure
, - Metrical structure with rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD ~ rigidity reflect imprisonment
- Use of repetition and anaphora start P1-3 with “when” ~ break in P4 (freedom through
imagination)
To the Night- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Apostrophe: directly address (Spirit of the Night= personified)
- Romantic Period ~use of natural imagery (Nature)
- Introspective poem ~ melancholy possibly depressed
- Longs for the night (free from demands of society) ~ dislikes the day
- Tone: yearning, longing, melancholy ~ urgent/ demanding
Structure
- Lyrical with flow and repetition, enjambment ~ rhythm
- Rhyme pattern ABABCCD
Refugee Blues- W.H Auden
- Tone: sad, depressed, despondent ~ ominous
- Yew- a tree
- Juxtaposition of wealth/living standards ~ highlights injustice and inequality
- Colon – indicates there is more to follow/ an explanation
- Irony clearly alive but say “officially dead” (clearly not)
- Daily bread ~ biblical allusion
- Hitler and antisemitism ~ predict/foreshadow WW2
Structure
