english poetry

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Decks in this class (13)

a constable calls (heaney)
Themes,
Theme of uncertainty,
Theme of fear
14  cards
mossbawn:sunlight (heaney)
Revolves around the atmosphere of...,
Mix of timelessness and ticking t...,
Sunlit abscence suggests that the...
18  cards
the times are tidy (plath)
Signifies the time after a major ...,
Draws a comparison between past p...,
Form abcdbonly 2nd and 5th lines ...
25  cards
hope is a thing with feathers (dickinson)
Narrator sees hope as bird that r...,
Follows loose rhyme scheme of abc...,
Religion
27  cards
theres a certain slant of light (dickinson)
Themes,
Speaker noticed a certain slant o...,
Light usually connected with pos ...
40  cards
i felt a funeral in my brain (dickinson)
Speaker references mourning numbn...,
Poem is depiction of despair spea...,
Poem tracks despair from its onse...
61  cards
september 1913 (yeats)
Speaker has ax to grind with read...,
Constatates their self interested...,
Implies greed materialism and suf...
41  cards
an irish airman foresees his death
Not about heroism or patriotic fe...,
He isn t motivated by a love of c...,
He doesn t risk his life to win h...
31  cards
the wild swans at coole
Stanza 1 begins describing beauty...,
Brimming water of lake contrasts ...,
Autumn is linked to death and slo...
67  cards
child (plath)
Depicts what,
Imaginez her child to be,
What does irregular rhyme scheme ...
10  cards
mirror (plath)
Imagery serves to what,
What are these complex feelings e...,
Poet personified mirror in order to
11  cards
morning song (plath)
Isn t filled with same lvl of des...,
First word is love,
How does plath use the powerful m...
24  cards
poppies in july (plath)
What does the poem deal with,
While the title suggests the beau...,
The poem is littered with
11  cards

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