Studied by 22 peopleI was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end:
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I water’d it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright;
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,
And into my garden stole
When night had veil’d the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.
What type of poet was Blake?
a Romantic
Who were the romantics?
a group of poets in the 18th century who believed the modern world was corrupting humanity
What were Blakes beliefs?
He was a devout Christian but believed the church had taught people to be fearful and revengeful rather than forgiving and open
What did Blake believe about childhood?
He believed it was a state of perfection -innocent and uncorrupted by the adult world
In which book was ‘A Poison Tree’ published?
Songs of Innocence and Experience
What was ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ written for?
to show how the modern world had led people astray
One summer evening
(led by her)
Straight I
unloosed her chain
Small circles glittering idly in the moon
until they melted all into one track
It was an act of stealth
And troubled pleasure
Proud of his skill
to reach a chosen point
With an unswerving line
I fixed my view
Went heaving through the water
like a swan;
The horizons bound,
a huge peak, black and huge,
Upreared its head.
I struck and struck again
like a living thing,
Strode after me.
through silent water
stole my way
Back to the covert
of the willow tree;
for many days, my brain
Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion
But huge and mighty forms, that do not live
Like living men, moved slowly through the mind
trouble to
my dreams
What kind of poet was William Wordsworth?
a Romantic
What were Wordsworth’s political views?
radical and eventually became conservative
How were Wordsworth’s poems regarded?
with hostility from critics
Where was Wordsworth born?
1770, Cumbria, the Lake District
What views did Wordsworth have?
he had a love of nature and was a pantheist, believing that God is in the nature around us. He was also very enthusiastic about the French revolution ideals
Where did Wordsworth study?
Cambridge and he spent a summer on a walking tour of France
What happened to Wordsworth?
both of his parents died so he lived with relatives who he didn’t get on well with so spent most of his free time outside
I was a
cottage maiden
Contented with
my cottage mates
Why did a great lord find me out
And praise my flaxen hair? or To fill my heart with care?
He lured me to his palace home-
Woe’s me for joy thereof-
To lead a shameless shameful life,
His plaything and his love
He wore me like a golden knot, He changed me like a glove:
So now i moan, an unclean thing Who might have been a dove.
Chose you
an cast me by.
Because you were so good and pure
He bound you with his ring
The neighbours call you good and pure,
Call me an outcast thing.
Even so I sit and howl in dust
You sit in gold and sing:
O cousin Kate, my love was true,
Your love was writ in sand
If he had fooled not me but you, If you stood where I stand, He had not won me with his love
Nor bought me with his land: I would have spit into his face And not have taken his hand
Yet I’ve a gift you have not got
And seem not like to get:
I’ve little doubt you fret
My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride
Who was Christina Rossetti?
A highly religious woman who worked at a house for ‘Fallen Women’
What was it like in the Victorian Period?
there was a preoccupation with wealth, power and influence
What were Christina Rossetti’s thoughts?
she felt that society needed to base itself on teachings from the Bible
Excuse me
standing on on leg
I’m half-caste
wah yu mean
when yu say half-caste
yu mean when picasso mix red an green
is a half-caste canvas/
light an shadow mix in de sky
is half-caste weather/
well in dat case
england weather nearly always half-caste
so spiteful
dem don’t want de sun to pass
tchaikovsky sit down at dah piano
an mix a black key wid a white key is a half-caste symphony/
Ah listening to yu wid da keen half of mih ear
Ah looking at yu wid de keen half of mih eye
I offer yu half-a-hand
an when i sleep at night I close half-a-eye
I dream half-a-dream
I a half-caste human being cast half-a-shadow
but yu must come back tomorrow wid de whole of yu eye
an de whole of yu ear an de whole of yu mind
an I will tell yu
de other half of my story
When and where was John Agard born?
1949 in Guyana
Where was John Agard’s father from?
Gyana
Where was John Agard’s mother from?
Portugal
When did John Agard move to England?
1977
merciless iced east winds
that knive us…
Wearied
we keep awake
Worried by silence,
sentries whisper, curious, nervous,
But nothing
happens.
Like twitching
agonies of men
What are we
doing here?
Sudden successive
flights of bullets steak the silence.
Pale flakes with fingering stealth
come feeling for our faces-
We turn back
to our dying.
For love of God
seems dying.
we hear the mad gusts
tugging on the wire
We only know war lasts,
rain soaks, and clouds sag stormy.
flowing flakes that
flock, pause and renew,
wind’s
nonchalance
All their eyes
are ice,
When was Exposure written?
1917 whilst Owen was fighting in the trenches
What were peoples opinions on war?
It was romanticised and most war poetry was written about the honour of fighting
What did Wilfred Owen do differently to other war poem writers at the time?
He exposed WW1 for what it was rather than romanticising it
I can remember
you, child,
our first fierce
confrontation
red rope
of love
I wrote all over the walls
with my words,
We want, we shouted,
to be two, to be ourselves.
As you ask may you skate
In the dark, for one more hour.
defiant
glare
trailing love
and conflict
tightening about
my life
from the heart’s pool
that old rope
What type of poem is ‘Catrin’?
Autobiographical, written about true events
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