AQA GCSE English Literature Poem Revision Cards

Storm On The Island

Highlights Violence of Nature!

• Theme - Preperation for a Storm - Nature
• Form - 19 Lines - 1 Stanza
• Voice -  1st Person
• Language -  War Vocabulary - Onomatopoeia - Metaphor - Similie

Death Of A Naturalist

• Theme - Nature - Memory as a child - Harshness of Nature
• Form - 33 lines - 2 Stanzas
• Voice - 1st Person
• Language - Juxtaposition - Onomatopoeia - Metaphor - Similie

Digging

• Theme - Autobiographical memory - Nature
• Form -  9 Stanzas - Variety of smaller lines
• Voice - 1st Person
• Language - Metaphor- Assonance

At a Potato Digging

• Theme - Starvation - Relationships - Potato - Memory - Nature
• Form - 4  Seperate Sections identified by Roman Numerals - 13 stanzas - 4-5 Lines
• Voice - 3rd Person - Historical 
• Language - Religious Links - Assonance - repetition

Field Mouse

• Theme - Nature and Man
• Voice - 1st Person - Autobiographical
• Form - 3 Stanzas - 9,9,9 - Free Verse
• Language - Metaphor - Assonance

Cold Knap Lake

• Theme - Mans relationship with Nature - Memory
• Form - 5 Stanzas - finishes with a rhyming couplet - Free Verse
• Voice - 1st Person Autobigoraphical - Womans Voice
• Language - Rich Description - Metaphorical - Simplicity

Catrine

• Theme - Nature shown through Birth - Memory
• Form - Free Verse - 2 Stanzas - Irregular
• Voice -  1st Person - Autobiographical
• Language - Highly Graphical - Extended Metaphor - Honesty

A Difficult Birth

• Theme - Nature - Memory - Peace Process in Belfast
• Form - 4 Stanzas - 6 lines each - Regular Pattern - No Rhyme
• Voice - 1st Person - Female - Sometimes Singular + Plural
• Language - Religious Symbolism - Historical Past of Easter Rising 1916

On My First Sonne

• Theme - Parent - Child relationships - Memory
• Form - 6 rhyming couplets - 1 stanza - 10 syllables per line
• Voice -  2nd Person - Male
• Language - Complex 17th Century Syntax - Religious Symbolism

The Affliction Of Margaret

• Theme - Loss (Mothers) - Natural Relationship - Grief
• Form -  11 x7 Stanzas - Disciplined + Regular - Alternate Line Rhymed - 8 Syllables - Crafted
• Voice -  Woman - 2nd Person
• Language -  Very detailed through scenarios - deliberate old world language

Patrolling Barnegat

• Theme -  Nature
• Form -  10 Syllables - 1 Stanza - Past Participle
• Voice -  No sense of one - Continous
• Language - Personfication - Onomatopoeia - Alliteration - Repetition - War Imagery

Sonnet

• Theme - Love
• Form - 14 Lines - 10 Syllables - Rhyming Couplets
• Voice - 1st Person
• Language -  Prettily Postive