Living Space
Name the poet
Imtiaz Dharker
The country and name of the war
South Africa - Boer War
This poem is a modern poem. True or False?
True
The country this poem alludes to.
Egypt
This Victorian poet's name
William Blake
These countries influenced her.
Pakistan (born) and Scotland (grew up) and India (lived and worked)
This poet was a storyteller and novelist
Thomas Hardy
This modern poet wrote Hawk Roosting.
Who is Ted Hughes
The poet's name
Percy (Bysshe) Shelley
Tone of the poem
Angry
The two structure techniques used to show the precarious, uneven, perfectly balanced dwellings of the slum
Enjambment and varying line lengths
The titles of the 2 sections
The Tragedy and The Irony
"I kill where I please"
"tearing off heads"
"through the bones of the living."
What type of imagery is used here?
Violent imagery
What form of poem is this?
Sonnet (8 & 6)
What did life offer the people in this poem?
Misery and poverty, disease and death, suffering and pain (bleak, negative lives)
The significance of stanza 2 (include a quote in your answer)
It has been squeezed in between the other 2 stanzas mimicking the way "someone has squeezed a living space"
"The fog hangs thicker"
What technique and effect?
Pathetic fallacy, shows her life is darker now that she is grieving
Main 3 themes?
Nature, power, cruelty
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
"In every cry of every Man,
In every Infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban"
What technique is used and what does it say about poverty?
Repetition of 'every' shows that poverty is endless, inescapable, and all around
Main 3 themes?
(not place)
Faith, fragility, courage
Quote the euphemism. What does it mean?
"He - has fallen" means he has died
Tone and perspective of the speaker?
Arrogant, 1st person (from the Hawk's perspective)
What technique has been used for every line to give the effect that this is a story being recounted?
iambic pentameter - mimics natural speech
Which 3 societal institutions does the poet blame for the conditions of the poor?
The Church, the Monarchy, and the government