Poem At Thirty-nine
Who is the author of 'Poem at Thirty-nine'?
Who is Alice Walker?
War photographers.
Who are people who place their lives in danger, to help us visualise the horrors of war elsewhere: wars not on our doorstep?
A rhetorical qustion.
What is a question which is not ment to be answered?
Simile
What is a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion )
Poem protests.
What is the idea of accepting death quietly?
The poem describes...
What are memories of the poet's dead father?
Structure
What is 4 stanzas, six lines each with a regular rhyme scheme?
Stanza one means.
Fierce Tiger in the forest - who made you?
Metaphor
What is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable?
Rhyme scheme.
What is ABA?
The structure of the poem.
What is free verse?
The contrast of war zone and daily life in England
What is the carelessness and safety of common people in comparison with the disasters of war
The dynamic verbs.
What are frame / burnt / seize / twist / beat / clasp / threw down / burning? All contain energy and power, linked to the tiger and its creator.
onomatopoeia
What is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g. cuckoo, sizzle ).
the use of onomatopoeia for literary effect.
A Villanelle.
Why does a villanelle build up the intensity and tone in the poem?
Enjambment is used.
What is the sense of remembrance?
The use of third person pronouns,
Why the use of o(He, his, they) shows etachment from job and distancing of Rural England from war zones?
Connotations of fierce beauty
What are burning bright / forests / night / deeps / skies / fire / heart / stars / spears / tears?
personification
What is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form?
Nigh symbolizes.
What is death?
The main theme.
What is life and death?
The difficulty of portraying a war without feeling guilty.
What is the photographers dilemma when taking pictures and traumatic images from war?
Language comment on 'began to beat'.
How does the alliteration seem effective because "b" represents the sound of the beating of the heart?
Mood
How is Mood the general feeling the writer wants the audience to have?
Oxymoron
What is a paradox in which two terms of ordinary usage are contraries and conjoine?