6th year poetry revision | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o’clock.

Preludes - olfactory imagery

The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantelpiece,

Aunt Helen - symbolism

Where the phone lay unattended in a calm Of mirror glass and sunstruck pendulums…

A Call - imagery

You in your going-away coat speeding ahead And me, me then like a fleet god gaining Upon you before you turned to a reed

The Underground - Allusion

And the bicycle ticked, ticked, ticked

A Constable Calls - symbolism

When he saw her passing by in her white trousers Dangling a knife on a ring at her belt.

Street - imagery / symbolism of being innocent

And you both see the same star Pitching its tent on the point of the steeple –

To Niall Woods and Xenya - imagery/metaphor

This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;

The Flea - metaphor

Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail, in blood of innocence?

The Flea - imagery

And swear, No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

Song: Go and catch a falling star - rhyme

What does living do to any of us? And why do we grip it, hang on As if it’s the ribs of a horse Past commanding?

The Searchers - metaphor

I see the white cloud of his hair In the distance like an eternity.

It's Not - metaphor

A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds;

Irish airman - imagery

My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,

Irish Airman - repetition

The bell-beat of their wings above my head, Trod with a lighter tread.

The Wild Swans at Coole - alliteration/imagery

And scatter wheeling in great broken rings Upon their clamorous wings.

The Wild Swans at Coole - onomatopoeia and symbol of eternity

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

repetition

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore

Lake Isle of Innisfree - alliteration

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

Lake Isle of Innisfree - imagery

The flames sheered from cinder to chimney breast like trapped exotic birds;

Hearth lesson - simile

The flames were blue and pink and green

Hearth lesson - imagery

I’m net, umpire, and court; mos,t balls are lobbed over my head.

Hearth lesson - metaphor

The streets that broke their backs

Personification/alliteration

The streets that defeated them

Prayer for the Chidren of Longing - Personification

The needle in its track The knife in the back

Prayer for the children of Longing - rhyme

I’d bear the newspaper twists bulging fat ...proudly home, like torches.

Buying Winkles - simile

the smell of men together with drink and I’d see light in golden mirrors.

Buying Winkles - imagery

the winkles would be wet and glisten blue like little night skies themselves

Buying Winkles - simile

"I’d dash from the ghosts on the stairs where the bulb had blown out"

Buying Winkles - metaphor / alliteration