It's Not (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards
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Author & title: poem about father's death
Author & title: poem about father's death
Tracy K. Smith, 'It's Not'
Collection containing 'It's Not' (2011)
Collection containing 'It's Not' (2011)
'Life on Mars'
Prize won by 'Life on Mars' collection
Prize won by 'Life on Mars' collection
Pulitzer Prize
Main subject of 'It's Not'
Main subject of 'It's Not'
Death of Smith's father
How death is portrayed in poem
How death is portrayed in poem
Personified as independent, calculating force
Death described as what journey? (line 5)
Death described as what journey? (line 5)
'Ride beyond body' - transition not ending
Biblical allusion in stanza 2
Biblical allusion in stanza 2
'Seek and ye shall find'
Metaphor: father's journey through death (line 14)
Metaphor: father's journey through death (line 14)
'Swimming only through this life'
'White cloud of his hair' symbolises what?
'White cloud of his hair' symbolises what?
Memory & lingering presence of father
Structural form of 'It's Not'
Structural form of 'It's Not'
Free verse - no fixed rhyme scheme or metre
Why is free verse used in poem?
Why is free verse used in poem?
Mirrors death's unpredictable & unknowable nature
Number of stanzas in poem
Number of stanzas in poem
Four stanzas of varying lengths
What uneven stanzas reflect
What uneven stanzas reflect
Fragmented nature of grief
Poetic technique creating conversational flow
Poetic technique creating conversational flow
Enjambment
Enjambment reflects what connection?
Enjambment reflects what connection?
Unbroken connection between physical & spiritual