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14 poems
14 poems
(Margaret Atwood)
Funeral Blues W.H Auden
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good
REQUEST TO A YEAR
JUDITH WRIGHT
I grew as I explored
The body I could trust
Even while I adored
The risk that made robust,
A world of wonders in
Each challenge to the skin.
Robert Lowell
Q 1-How does Turner use words and images to convey his thoughts? Use textual support to
elaborate on some of these thoughts.
Rain
BY EDWARD THOMAS
Away, melancholy,
Away with it, let it go.
Man aspires
To good,
To love
Sighs;
Away, melancholy,
Away with it, let it go
Stevie Smith
The Spirit Is Too Blunt an Instrument
BY ANNE STEVENSON
Sonnet: a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English
typically having ten syllables per line.
Volta
Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org › glossary-terms…(A good resource)
Italian word for “turn.” In a sonnet, the volta is the turn of thought or argument: in Petrarchan
or Italian sonnets it occurs between the octave and the sestet ...
The sonnet is split in two stanzas: the "octave" or "octet" (of 8 lines) and the "sestet" (of 6
lines), for a total of 14 lines. The octave typically introduces the theme or problem using a
rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA.
Boey Kim Cheng, ‘The Planners’