Summary English IEB Prescribed Poetry complete guide 2022
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English Home Language
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12th Grade
These notes contain a detailed line by line analysis of all 19 Prescribed IEB final Matric poems including:
Loves farewell
To Althea, from prison
To the night
Refugee blues
Ulysses
My last Duchess
The Cry of South Africa
Penguin on the beach
Lost or found world
I have my fathers voi...
, Love's Farewell
Overconfident language, a bluff
Not truly saying farewell
Elizabethan sonnet
3 quatrains, rhyming couplet Certainty —> Uncertainty
In love with daughter of employer Imperative —> hopeful
Continuation of ideas
- Michael Drayton Follows many poems of woo
SINCE there’s no help, come let us kiss and part,— no hope for relationship. A kiss is not a common
Instruction. Negative start to poem creates idea
parting. Dash indicated pause to listen response
Nay I have done, you get no more of me; Uncaring response. Vague in what he is done
with. Pronouns indicate selfishness
Repetition of word glad, try convince himself
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, he is happy to be parting.
Assonance creates sense of relief, happy to be free.
That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Emphasises his desire to have ‘clean break’ from his love.
Issues orders. Vow = stronger than promise. Shake
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, hands, formalised goodbye, emotionless. Doesn’t see
reconciliation in future.
When= definite meeting again. Cancel all vows contrasts with
And when we meet at any time again, see again, can they really ever have a ‘clean break’
Must not be seen in their expressions, not anger nor surprise. No
Be it not seen in either of our brows remnants of past emotions for each other
Faces should be expressionless. Wishes for clean break, no
That we one jot of former love retain. trace of past feeling.
Mood turns to pleading from indifference. Now = shift in
Now at the last gasp of love’s latest breath, focus. Alliteration of L creates sounds of breathlessness.
Change in tone
Was confident would end, now maintains hope of resolution
When his pulse failing, passion speechless lies,
Metaphor, compares love to dying person. Talking
is now useless, they cannot rekindle this passion
Faith is the hope the relationship won’t end, faith
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, begging love to come alive
And innocence is closing up his eyes, Idealism is closing up its eyes. The ideal love is dying
Dash indicates change in the speaker.
—Now if thou would’st, when all have given him over, Speaker places burden on their lover.
They have the chance to reconcile. Contradicts all
From death to life thou might’st him yet recover! said before.
Links to my last duchess’
Imperative, commanding for 1st & 2nd quatrain, reflect determination for clean break. Comparable to no longer mourn speakers sense of
for me, both Elizabethan sonnets arrogance and theme of
Subjunctive for 3rd, has hope to rekindle. Awaits instructions
love and the tenant
, About power of human mind Famous solider from wealthy family
To Althea, from Prison
Images his love visits him War of roses, supporter of Charles 1
4 stanzas, octaves Wrote while in jail
2 quatrains in each, end pair rhyme Althea: Greek for healer. Written to his fiancé
Iambic pentameter & iambic tetrameter - RICHARD LOVELACE (not named Althea). Written in prison
When Love with unconfinèd wings
When = anafora. Love not capitalised because personified, emphasising
importance of love to him. Unconfined = not trapped, love = birdlike.
Hovers within my Gates, Prison gates, love come into prison, does not recognise its confined.
And my divine Althea brings
Love brings his Althea to him, not physically. Use of inversion to maintain rhyme
scheme. Divine = heavenly
To whisper at the Grates; Whispers because cannot reveal presence for his safety and hers, conjures her up for himself.
When I lie tangled in her hair, Imagines caught up in her hair instead of in chains. Tied into her.
Fetter’d = chained, does my recognise physical entrapment. Imprisoned by everything
And fettered to her eye, that is Althea
The Gods that wanton in the Air, Gods who are able to go anywhere don’t feel the freedom he does.
Know no such Liberty.
Imagines himself free. Thinks what he sees fit. Last line is a refrain.
Stanza 1: idea of being enslaved or restricted
Hedonism
When flowing Cups run swiftly round
When many cups of alcohol were shared in celebration
With no allaying Thames, Without being diluted with anyRoses:
water, indicating poor times
symbols of Charles, describe a kind of celebration, remember times
Our careless heads with Roses bound, gone by without a care. No fear of supporting Charles. Metonymy, object
Unity
represents whole.
Our hearts with Loyal Flames; Passionately loyal. Our = speaker and his friends didn’t hide support
When thirsty grief in Wine we steep, Thirsty grief, personified. Soaking sorrows in wine due to political situation.
When Healths and draughts go free, Health’s= tributes, toast king without hesitation. Free = imprison
Fishes that tipple in the Deep Fish symbolise freedom. They don’t have the freedom he experiences by his imagination.
Know no such Liberty. They don’t know that freedom, he reflects on good times.
Stanza 2: idea of liquid and flowing water.
Simile , committed linnet = songbird. Interpret: Caged songbird does my stop singing or
When like committed linnets, I caged = loyal.
With shriller throat shall sing Though he is jailed he will still sing the praises of his King.
The sweetness, Mercy, Majesty, He becomes louder, shares glories of Charles.
And glories of my King; Never continue to stop worshiping king, sees him as only worthy of power
When I shall voice aloud how good Shares aloud to others about King
He is, how Great should be, How great his king shall still become
Enlargèd Winds, that curl the Flood, Have freedom to praise king, biblical preference to Moses and the red sea.
Know no such Liberty.
Says his words will have greater impact than that of Moses. Moses, flees imprisonment.
Stanza 3: idea of power of the voice, prison will not stop making himself heard.
, Missing the anafora
Encapsulates idea of poem. Prison is not physical, being in prison
Stone Walls do not a Prison make, does not make you feel trapped.
Nor Iron bars a Cage; Your mind creates the prison, mental barrier
Minds innocent and quiet take In mind he has done no wrong, quiet=untroubled. Then don’t believe in prison
That for an Hermitage. Just believe in a safe place of seclusion, see as protection and not prison.
If I have freedom in my Love, If = conditional, he is free to love then he is free
And in my soul am free, If the essence of himself is not touched by this confinement
Angels alone that soar above, The only thing comparable to the freedom he feels is that experienced by the angels above.
Enjoy such Liberty.
There is nothing that can confine him, he decides his true prison. Trapped is a restricted mind not
restricted movement
Missing the refrain
Mind over matter Comparable to touch & refugee blues, touches
Paradox - true freedom not physical on ideas of imprisonment & restrictions
Rather own perspective of situation
Prisons are limitations placed on ourselves. Tone: Optimistic & defiant
Mood: Triumphant & inspiring
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