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Paul Durcan - Parents
Sea metaphor quotes,
What is the sea a symbol of,
Why is the child under the sea
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - Deaths and Engines
Exploration of what elements of d...,
Dramatic middle of action registe...,
Sounds of echo silence and sombre
12
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Emily Dickinson - A Bird Came Down the Walk
She s able to observe the bird s ...,
The bird is very aware of it s wo...,
She notices the bird s inherent a...
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Eavan Boland - The Pomegranate
The myth ceres mother and perseph...,
Different aspects of the story ca...,
Sees herself at persephone
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Paul Durcan - Father's Day, 21 June 1992
Axe is symbolic for,
Their priorities any way of under...,
Metaphor he compares the axe to a...
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Adrienne Rich - Our Whole Life
Language is created by male domin...,
Misinformation propaganda alterna...,
A letter sent but gone misisnh a ...
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Adrienne Rich - Living In Sin
What does living in sin mean,
Naive she had imagined an ideal l...,
Alliteration a perfect domestic s...
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Adrienne Rich - Power
Tragic irony that something she w...,
Painful symptoms of radiation exp...,
Stubborn curie wanted to deny tha...
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Adrienne Rich - The Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room
Condescending term dismissive dis...,
Alliteration repetition of sullen...,
Hostile behaviour intimidating th...
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Adrienne Rich - Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
A powerful dynamic verb shows the...,
Rich gives a detailed description...,
We can tell i m embroidery is aun...
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1984
Constant state of war and bomb ex...,
Poor living conditions buildings ...,
Where does winston live name of t...
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - Translation
Pun metaphor frayed garments laun...,
White light hope blinded did soci...,
Relief statue of virgin mary who ...
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - Fireman's Lift
Like the bend in the road second ...,
Spierling vortx like they were co...,
The verb s show the physical exer...
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - To Niall Woods and Xenya Ostrovskaia married in Dublin on 9 September 2009
What type of poem is it,
Fate draws them together they ll ...,
The story of a full loaf and a cu...
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - On Lacking The Killer Instinct
What did she do when her father w...,
Alliteration comedic pathetic ima...,
Plain language simple prosaic sto...
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - The Bend In The Road
Adjectives describing poem,
The language creates a tranquil a...,
Simple simile zoomorphism alliter...
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - Street
Immediately a woman living in a m...,
White trousers innocence and puri...,
The darker side of attraction he ...
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Brooklyn
Nettles kelly implies that their ...,
Rose has been a generous sister b...,
When a less well off customer com...
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Eavan Boland - Outside History
Stars are a symbol of timelessnes...,
The light of these starts occurred,
They stars women remote in distan...
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The Playboy Of The Western World
Stage directions describe shebeen as,
Shawn is scared a father riley,
Marriage is an important institution
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Hamlet
Where does the play take place,
How do we feel when the ghost enters,
Quote horatio is a scholar he s c...
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Emily Dickinson - ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers -
How is hope portrayed in the poem,
Introduction to the metaphor of a...,
An elegant line that says the bir...
8
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Eavan Boland - The Famine Road
What is a famine road,
Thw two types of history in the poem,
Government classes being typicall...
15
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Eavan Boland - War Horse
Collection it s from,
What does neighbours hiding suggest,
Appearing normal and ordinary ono...
15
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Eavan Boland - Love
Imagery dusk time of change chang...,
Physical belongings in their home,
Love was light strong and lifted ...
14
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Eavan Boland - This Moment
Fragment sentences set the scene ...,
Dramatic ominous intriguing what ...,
Plants growing assonance creates ...
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Eavan Boland - Child Of Our Time
Poem written in response to,
Lullaby to send child to final sl...,
Rhythm from the discord of your m...
12
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Emily Dickinson - I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
What is the poem about,
Different layers of the experienc...,
Quote a sense of panic and fear c...
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Emily Dickinson - I heard a Fly buzz - when I died
Quote simile the tension in air b...,
Quote the mourners had done their...,
Quote god will be present at the ...
11
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Emily Dickinson - The Soul has Bandaged moments -
What is the poet about,
The poem is broken into 3 parts t...,
Quote the soul is damaged the hur...
10
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Emily Dickinson - I taste a liquor never brewed -
What is the poem about,
Tone of poem,
Quote hyperbole nothing compares ...
10
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Paul Durcan - Sport
Durcan s relationship with father...,
Name a phrase that is being repeated,
Examples of some puns
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Paul Durcan - Wife Who Smashed Televison Gets Jail
How does the poem read,
A quote for peacefully watching tv,
Peaceably watching kojak when she...
13
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Paul Durcan - The Difficulty that is Marraige
Who is the poem a message to,
Quote showing ups and downs of th...,
We disagree to disagree quote tal...
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Paul Durcan- Six Nuns Die In A Convent Inferno
Type of narrative,
Upon seeing the punks the nun says,
Why does she call herself the ord...
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Paul Durcan - Nessa
Who is poem about,
Poetic techniques in the poem,
Where did they meet
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