Summary Quick summery of IEB English home language poems to save the day
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Course
English Home Language
Institution
12th Grade
Studying for English Home language poetry can be tedious especially when you realize that only 3 poems are tested. The best way I found to learn all the poems is not by necessarily parrot-fashion learning each line, but by rather understanding the poem and the structure of the poem in order to answ...
Love’s Love that is over and hopeless that comes Stanza 1: dismissive, forceful, Shakespearean rhyme Person whose love is
Farewell with it. commanding- emphasizes scheme not being returned
Stanza 1: had enough of unrequited love. determination to end the 3 quatrains
Stanza 2: if they ever meet again, they will relationship 1 rhyming couplet Can link to the tenant
not know each other Stanza 2: assertive & forceful-
Stanza 3: personifies love as dying (love confidence in decision
coming to an end) Stanza 3: sad, resigned (links to
Stanza 4: ends on note of hope and faith love dying and giving up
in relationship (choice lies in woman) Stanza 4: hopeful- still hope for
their love
To Paradoxical theme of having freedom Defiant and determined Lyrical poem (praises the King Author of the poem (he
Althea during imprisonment (resistance to be emotionally and Althea) was imprisoned for 7
from
Stanza 1: the thought and love of Althea imprisoned - won’t allow weeks for praising the
Prison
give him freedom physical imprisonment to King)
Stanza 2: love and loyalty for king gives imprison his mind and soul)
him freedom Can link to touch
Stanza 3: Not even nature knows the
freedom he has (passion for king will never
cause him to be confined
Stanza 4: Link back to Althea & king
(nothing can imprison his soul
The wind An approaching storm Tone is amazement and awe Stanza 1: dash builds up the Link to penguin on the
begun to Stability of domestic environment vs however also fearful storm beach
rock the
transformation in natural world & society (ambivalent) Stanza 2: semicolon shift
grass
(fragility of life and nature) Respects the storm however from leaves and dust blown
Stanza 1: build up of storm (causes sky also amazes the power and and emphasizes level of
, danger) control of it control
Stanza 2: control that the leaves and dust Stanza 4-5: enjambment of
have (protect themselves from the wind) water flowing (non-stop and
Stanza 3: emphasis of the power of powerful)
lighting (compared to bird of prey- world is Stanza 5: dash poet is
lighting’s prey- we are scared) distracted by storm and
Stanza 4: birds looking for shelter (reacting emphasizes amazement and
same way as people) & underestimating awe of storm
power of storm 2 lines of 8 syllables= creates
Stanza 5: power of storm wrecks the sky, sense of unity
but doesn’t wreck the Father’s House Dashes add to movement
(move from destruction to relief and awe) and progression of storm
Ulysses Living life to the fullest and swallow every Line 1-5: disappointment and Blank verse (natural quality of Ulysses
drop of life despair Ulysses’ speech)
Exploration and colonization 33-43: acknowledging Dramatic monologue Can link to nobody
Pursuit of knowledge & self-knowledge 44-71: Passionate (addressed to 1 person) loses all the time &
Symbol of journey Each paragraph has distinct Lost or found world
1-32: he’s come home to a land of savages. theme listener
He wants to be back on the ocean living his
life to the fullest because he is old. If he
doesn’t travel he will die
33-43: Acknowledges his weaknesses and
that his son his fitter to rule the land
44-71: Shift to life on ship. Emphasizes how
he wants to push boundaries and move
forward relentlessly (power he has from
being on the ocean)
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