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Section 3 Poems, If- - Coggle Diagram
Section 3 Poems
Half-caste
Context
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Agard was born in Guyana in 1949 (at the time, Guyana was part of the British Empire)
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Language and structure
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Metaphors, comparing "half-caste" to the weather and music
Sarcasm/humor, "well in dat case england weather nearly always half-caste"
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Lack of punctuation, makes the poem go quickly
Prayer Before Birth
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Prayer beofre birth was written during the terror of WW2. It Talks about the evil realities of the world that humanity can creat which an unborn baby will live in.
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My Last Duchess
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Language and structure
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Enjambment, makes the poem more conversational
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Irony, The title is ironic as he will likeley marry again
Aliteration, "Then all the smiles stopped together. There she stands as if alive."
Hyperbole, "her looks went everywhere."
The tyger
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Language and structure
Anaphora of 'Tyger, Tyger burning bright'
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context
He was agaisnt the industrial revolution and afraid of the future for nature. He used his poetry to celebrate nature and prefered the past.
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War photographer
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Language and structure
List, "Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh" shows widespread conflict throughout the world
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"All flesh is grass" biblical reference referres to the insignificance of life in times of conflict and that one death means very little
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Poem at Thirty-Nine
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Language and structure
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Simile, "He cooked like a person dancing."
Metaphor, "seasoning none of my life the same way twice."
Triplet, "Cooking, writing, chopping wood"
Possible symbolism, "Staring into the fire."
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Context
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It is possibly written about Keats neighbour, Fanny Brawne
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Language and structure
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Euphamism, "I set her on my pacing steed"
Sonnet 116
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Language and structure
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About half of the poem is in a fixed rhyme scheme, the other half is not
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Half-past Two
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Language and structure
"Once upon a schooltime", opens like a fairytale
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Search for My Toungue
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Language and structure
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Metaphor and Aliteration "it grows back, a stump of a shoot"
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