A detailed and easily understandable summary of all English Fal Poems
Poems Included:
-Alexandra
-Spring
-Sonnet 18
-Still I rise
-Mid-term break
-Captive
-Death
-Everything has changed
-To learn how to speak
-Poem
TITLE THEME STRUCTURE TONE METAPHOR SIMILE ALL/ASS PERSONFIC OTHER
The black people’s quest Lyrical Frustration “just as we”- Assonance: -township is presented as a Apostrophe- the poet addresses the township directly, as if in a conversation
compares being A(3-5)-if he could, he would mother figure. This Anaphora:
for identity and a sense (satirical poem) Despair - repetition of “you”
removed from their have left a long time ago emphasises the bond that
ALEXANDRA of community Shame
Bitterness
home to the
transition between
A(40)-trapped feeling that
the poet feels in the rubble
he has with the township
-he expects Alexandra to be
-repetition of “I’ emphasises the speaker’s feeling of being an outsider. Also that he leaves only to
return again(no choice)
Enjambment- “Hell”
life+ death Alliteration: a mother that will take -reference to biblical hell
“just like you knot”- “heart beat”- sound of a away his -swear word = ALLUSION
compares knot to pumping heart thirst(breastfeeding Consonance- breast to rest -a sound of comfort
umbilical cord T+S-creates sensation of mother) Double Entendre- “fall out”
attaching mother to thirst when spoken -fight/ argue
baby D – harsh sound, corpses -to literally fall out(birth)
You, You left in dongas “Bloody cruel”
S- emphasise sinking -anger in expression
sensation -covered in blood from bodies of gangs in dongas
Nasty- abuse(phys+mental)
Dust- represents death
(poor socio-economic conditions)
Hopkins praises the Petrachan/ Italian sonnet OCTAVE- “ thrush’s eggs…” -Blue ‘strikes like All of W and L to “brush” Dash- explanation of spring is to follow
beauty of nature in -octave(describing happy/energetic eggs look like pieces of lightning..”- the capture the essence Internal rhyme- ing
nature) “Christ, lord”- a prayer that -ear, hear
SPRING springtime, celebrates
the energy, colour, feels
-sestet(reflects on
meaning of nature on a VOLTA- break in
blue sky
‘they brush”- looks as if
sound of the
thrushes song is a
and energy of the
plants
God will preserve beauty - cloud, sour
Inversion- Eden Garden usually Garden of Eden(God’s paradise- INNOCENCE)
before it loses its purity
despair for the loss of spiritual level) thought the leaves and blossoms piercing sound like through sin. Hopkins want Constant chiming-elaborate use of alliteration to create resonance
innocence -sprung rhythm: reader is are brushing the sky as sudden lightning Jesus to save the innocent Onomatopoeia- wring
made fully aware of the SESTET- they move in the breeze so they don’t sin. Spring Polysyndeton- using and instead of comma to bind sentence
beauty and vitality of Urgent/Anxious signifies the period of youth “strain”- particular quality of sound “Mayday”- celebration of the first spring day in Europe
spring in human life “being”- creation “ cloy”- too sweet. “maid’s”- Virgin Mary “Child”- Jesus
Poetry is eternal. English sonnet Endearing, evoking -Young girl who is developing is “Fair from fair”- -Death is personified as Colon- a list follows of the negative qualities of summer
compared to a budding flower Lines:
Shakespeare is admiring 3 quatrains and a affection from his “summer’s lease”- the time of
emphasizes the fact a person who brags
-poetry
SONNET 18 a women, because he is
putting it into verse. She
rhyming couplet beloved and the
reader
summer is compared to the time
someone rents a house
that everything fades
with time
about this power to kill
-The sun is compared
-wrinkles
-lifeline
‘wanderst in his shade”-time of
is more beautiful than a to a person that has Untrimmed:
death, walking in the shadow of
summer’s day. your life eyes that shine -loss of everything beautiful
“eternal lines”- beloved -“summers leases -untrimmed sails of a ship
becomes immortal, tied to time Ow’st: Fair-beautiful
time”- compared to a
with the eternal lines of poetry -own Fare- the price you pay on life’s journey
“complexion dimmed”-sun person renting a house -borrowed
disappearing behind the clouds quickly
The narrator’s strength to Lyrical Poem Accusing tone -oil wells -like… -“past that’s rooted in - Past rooted in pain Apostrophe: You- directly addresses listener
retaliate against “you”. Sometimes -diamonds. Wealth-self - all similes pain” Hyperbole: exaggerate: “shoot” “kill” “cut”
discrimination of races and -gold mines. worth
playful and suggest that she -“huts of history” Sassiness- confidence /charisma
gender; which offers hope -history’s shame
fear”
about “nights of terror and
Evidence that the poem is
for others who suffer from humorous, then -past rooted in pain flaunts her wealth Haughtiness- pride/ confidence gloom
STILL I RISE the same ordeal. Resilience
and determination when
serious and prideful -gifts my ancestors gave
-I am a black ocean
facing oppression - hope of a slave
Childhood- Poet is Lyrical poem Title: happy and Hard blow- manner boy “ as in his cot”- “classes to a close”- Euphemism- “ a hard blow”
MID-TERM recalling an event from promising- the irony was killed or the shock it coffin is compared stresses feeling “ sorry for your trouble”
BREAK his childhood, he
suddenly grew up due
of death robs him +
family from joy.
caused to cot something is ending
“ambulance arrived”
“ the bumper knocked him clear”
Pythos (provokes feeling of sadness). - Last line stand alone
to the experience. Seamus is -suggest brother’s -“in the porch I met my father crying”. to draw attention…
Death/Loss- reactions of restrained/ holding abrupt end to his life -tearless sighs”. -Coffin is measured by
people to death and the back emotions L15; “corpse”- speaker is still detached. his life(40
way people attempt to Rhyming couplet- Snowdrops-symbolic for a new life
make sense of death regret,nostalgia,guilt “him,he,his”- making peace with death
(stresses tragedy ‘box”- suggest bitterness… speaker is accepting death but is still bitter
boy went through)
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