Context
What historical event inspired William Blake to write "London"?
The French Revolution?
What is one metaphor from Tissue?
“Paper that lets the light shine through”
Light
Complete: “The mind-forged ___”
"The mind-forged manacles”
What form is My Last Duchess written in?
Dramatic monologue in iambic pentameter
Storm on the Island is said to be an extended metaphor for which historical event?
The Troubles
What is enjambment and which poem uses it most?
Enjambment = ideas flowing over lines
Tissue and Checking Out Me History
Complete: "As if she ranked my gift_________”
"As if she ranked / My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
Why are the stanzas about Black historical figures in "Checking Out Me History" the longest?
To address the imbalance.
Which poet grew up in Guyana, studying a Eurocentric education?
John Agard
Which two poems are dramatic monologues?
My Last Duchess, The Émigrée
Complete: "Dem tell me bout old King Cole was a merry ole soul/ but dem never tell me bout _____"
"Dem tell me bout old King Cole was a merry ole soul/ but dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole"
How many stanzas are there in London? What is it that structure called?
4 stanzas
Quatrains
What is the name of the Duke who inspired "My Last Duchess"?
Duke Alfonso of Ferrera
Identify one oxymoron in Storm on the Island.
"Exploding comfortably"
Complete: "Runs in ___ down _________"
"Runs in blood down palace walls."
What effect does the lack of rhyme in "Tissue" create?
Free verse mirrors fragility/lack of control
Who is Nanny of the Maroons?
She was a Jamaican revolutionary and the leader of the Jamaican Maroons.
Name one simile from Storm on the Island.
"Spits like a tame cat / Turned savage”
"but my city comes to me in its own white plane"
What is the effect of irregular structure in "The Emigree"?
Suggests fragmented memory or loss of control.