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English poetry summary (grade 12 IEB)

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This is a summary of all the grade 12 poetry for English. I used this summary to achieve within the top 1% for IEB English in South Africa in 2020 for matric and I hope they will also help you succeed :) Includes: key points, structure, figures of speech, tone etc.

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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

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