English IEB poetry notes. These notes are perfect to help you study for finals. The pack includes the following poems: Kubla Khan, Winter: my secret, Da Same Da Same, Poem in October, Release February 1990, When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer, How to be old, A poem is a painting, If thou must love ...
By
Samuel
Taylor
Coleridge
–
romantics
(celebrated
power
of
imagination/
soul
of
individual)
Title
-‐ A
vision
in
a
dream
-‐ A
fragment
General
-‐ No
clear
rhyme
scheme
o Rhyme
is
there
but
is
not
consistent
-‐ Iambic
tetrameter
(trochaic)
-‐ Mystic
o Mystic
is
a
person
who
practices
mysticism
o or
a
reference
to
a
§ mystery
§
mystic
craft
§ the
occult
-‐ Paragraph
1
o Nature
seen
as
ecstasy
o Imagination
is
present
o Enters
mystical
world
-‐ Paragraph
2
o BUT
–
imagination
is
leaving/
becomes
absent
o Emotions
of
unspeakable
reality
o When
reality
happens
§ Imagination
leaves
and
becomes
shadow
of
the
past
à
“lifeless”
“sunless”
o Faster
and
more
agitated
-‐ Paragraph
3
o Poet
searching
for
imaginations
o Trying
to
retrieve
the
imagination
if
him
§ Frustration
o Poet
longs
for
“sunny
dome”
and
“caves
of
ice”
o Poet
predicts
that
without
imagination
§ The
world
will
end
-‐ Intention
o Integration
of
the
power
of
imagination
which
erupts
from
creativity
-‐ Senses
poem
o Appeals
to
5
senses
-‐ Lots
of
water
imagery
-‐ Imagination
can
be
both
good
and
bad
Vocabulary
-‐ Xanadu
(1)
o Kubla
Khan’s
summer
palace
-‐ Decree
(2)
o Official
order/
proclamation
-‐ Stately
(2)
o
dignified
and
grand
-‐ Sacred
(3)
o Holy
o river
that
has
been
imbued
with
some
sort
of
significance
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-‐ Caverns
(4)
o Caves
o tunnelling
through
the
rocks
-‐ Rills
(8)
o
streams
-‐ Sinuous
(8)
o
Curving
o rounding
-‐ Ancient
(10)
o holiness
-‐ Enfold
(11)
o wrap
around
o protect
o embrace
o sense
of
protection
and
safety
-‐ Chasm
(12)
o deep
valley
o gully
-‐ Cedarn
(13)
o a
type
of
tree
which
has
a
beautiful
smell
-‐ Chasm
(17)
o deep
hole
-‐ Ceaseless
(17)
o never
stops
-‐ Turmoil
(17)
o chaos
o stormy
-‐ Seething
(17)
o bubbling
under
pressure
o coursing
-‐ Swift
(20)
o fast
/
quickly
-‐ Intermittent
(20)
o
coming
again
and
going
-‐ mazy
(25)
o maze
like
-‐ Dale
(26)
o valley
-‐ Tumult
(28)
o
Loud
o confused
sound
-‐ Measure
(33)
o another
word
for
the
bar
of
music
-‐ Dulcimer
(37)
o
archaic
music
instrument
-‐ Abyssinian
(39)
o
Ethiopia
-‐ Mount
Abora
(41)
o Abyssinian
o holy
place
where
paradise
was
found
§ according
to
legend
-‐ Dread
(52)
o idea
to
be
full
of
fear
but
you
are
frightened
of
the
wonder
that
you
are
feeling/
seeing
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Frew
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Amy
McLean-‐Banks
Poetry
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2019
LINE
MEANING
FIGURES
OF
SPEECH/
DICTION
OTHER
IMAGERY
In
Xanadu
did
Kubla
Khan
(
A
)
A
stately
pleasure-‐dome
Summer
palace
Decree
at
end
of
line
à
decree:
(
B
)
emphasizes
gets
place
Kubla
Khan
said
that
the
on
order
and
authority
summer
palace
was
to
be
of
Kubla
Khan
built
in
Xanadu
Where
Alph,
the
sacred
Describing
–
river
Enjambement
à
Commas
à
river,
ran
(
A
)
image
of
river
flowing
noun
and
and
the
movement
of
apparition:
the
rhythm
alph
and
the
river
are
both
the
Alliteration
of
the
r
à
same
noun
Rolling
continuous
sound
lines
all
about
the
river
Through
caverns
Alliteration
of
the
m
à
Measureless
à
measureless
to
man
(
A
)
soft,
continuous
Enormous
infinite;
cannot
be
talking
about
caverns
measured
by
that
are
infinite
human
cannot
be
contained
or
defined
Down
to
a
sunless
sea.
(
B
Seems
to
suggest
this
is
Alliteration
of
s
à
Sunless
sea
à
)
constant
silence
and
river
still
tunnelling
disappearing
into
the
through
the
earth
River
disappears
once
it
gets
sea
see
does
not
into
the
sea
no
glimmer
of
sunlight
have
brightness:
light
and
variety
Sea
swallows
the
river
of
life
on
land
So
twice
five
miles
of
Lushness,
life
giving
fertile
ground
(
C
)
Fertile
Twice
five
miles
à
very
large
With
walls
and
towers
Walls
and
towers
wrap
were
girdled
round;
(
C
)
around
fertile
ground
and
gardens
Pleasure
dome
land
contains
and
protects
both
natural
and
man-‐made
wonders.
And
there
were
gardens
Gardens
–
colourful
bright
with
sinuous
rills,
(
D
)
Sensuous
description
à
something
that
appeals
to
all
the
senses
Garden
bright
à
colour
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Where
blossomed
many
“Incense-‐bearing
an
incense-‐bearing
tree;
(
tree”
à
B
)
smell
exotic
/
holy
And
here
were
forests
She’s
as
old
as
the
hills
ancient
as
the
hills,
(
D
)
à
idiomatic
expression
(figurative
and
sometimes
literal
meaning
–
exaggeration)
Enfolding
sunny
spots
of
Enfold
à
greenery.
(
B
)
wrap
around
protect
embrace
sense
of
protection
and
safety
But
oh!
that
deep
chasm
à
gorge/
Romantic
à
romantic
chasm
which
canyon
sublime
slanted
awe
inspiring
Down
the
green
hill
Cedarn
à
athwart
a
cedarn
cover!
a
type
of
tree
which
has
a
beautiful
smell
A
savage
place!
as
holy
First
time
the
word
holy
is
Savage
à
and
enchanted
used
wild
and
uninhabited
Enchanted
à
magical
As
e’er
beneath
a
waning
Waning
moon
à
moon
was
haunted
after
the
full
moon
when
the
moon
is
becoming
smaller
By
woman
wailing
for
her
Other
worldly
place
Simile
à
Loneliness
à
demon-‐lover!
comparing
a
holy
and
impress
enchanted
romantic
strangeness
chasm
to
a
place
that
is
haunted
by
woman
wailing
for
her
demon-‐
lover
under
a
wailing
moon.
And
from
this
chasm,
with
ceaseless
turmoil
seething,
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