The Great Personal Privation (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards
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Poet of 'The Great Personal Privation'
Poet of 'The Great Personal Privation'
Tracy K. Smith (American poet)
Year of slave owner letters used in poem
Year of slave owner letters used in poem
1849
Poetic form used in the poem
Poetic form used in the poem
Free verse
Number of stanzas in the poem
Number of stanzas in the poem
Five stanzas
Phrase repeated at start & end of poem
Phrase repeated at start & end of poem
Many, many, very many times
Word repeated in final stanza (desperation)
Word repeated in final stanza (desperation)
Please
Literary device: lines run over without pause
Literary device: lines run over without pause
Enjambment
Final stanza uses cut-off sentences to show...
Final stanza uses cut-off sentences to show...
Broken voices/interrupted families
Central message of poem
Central message of poem
Damage from family separation; treating people as property
People displaced in domestic slave trade
People displaced in domestic slave trade
1.2 million people
Phrase created from this slavery period
Phrase created from this slavery period
Sold down the river
Length of shortest stanza (stanza 2)
Length of shortest stanza (stanza 2)
5 lines