Analyses of all 16 assessable poems for the matrics of . Notes cover theme, use of diction, figures of speech, structure, tone, quotes and explanations, etc.
Covers all of the following poems:
◦Sonnet 104 ‘to me, fair friend, you never can be old’ - William Shakespeare
◦The Sun Rising...
,Helpful Information
Terminology:
Iambic pentameter – ten syllables per line; stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed…
Iambic dimeter – 4 syllables per line
Iambic tetrameter – 8 syllables per line
Anaphora – repetition in the beginning of multiple lines.
Volta – indicates a turn in thought. (yet, but)
Euphemism – a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or
blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing; used to ‘soften the blow’.
Romanticism/Romantic era – (same as art) focussed on going back to nature and turning away from
technology and capitalism. Born out of frustration around the industrial revolution.
Sibilance – sound device of an alliteration of the “s” sound; usually to emulate a sound or create an
ominous tone.
, Contents
Helpful Information...............................................................................................................................1
Terminology:......................................................................................................................................1
Poetry....................................................................................................................................................3
The Renaissance................................................................................................................................3
Sonnet 104 ‘to me, fair friend, you never can be old’....................................................................3
The Sun Rising................................................................................................................................3
Go, lovely Rose...............................................................................................................................4
The Romantics...................................................................................................................................6
Ozymandias of Egypt......................................................................................................................6
The Victorians....................................................................................................................................7
Remember.....................................................................................................................................7
Modernism........................................................................................................................................7
nobody loses all the time...............................................................................................................7
Will it be so again?.........................................................................................................................9
Moving through the silent crowd.................................................................................................11
Mirror..........................................................................................................................................12
African Poetry..................................................................................................................................13
Namaqualand after Rain..............................................................................................................13
The Discardment..........................................................................................................................15
Touch...........................................................................................................................................16
Cockroaches.................................................................................................................................18
Strangers forever.........................................................................................................................19
For Oom Piet................................................................................................................................21
The Tenant...................................................................................................................................22
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