Form in Poetry 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteraturePoetryA2/A-levelAQA Created by: HayleyCreated on: 19-05-14 14:30 79342156810 Across 1. modern ekphrastic poems have generally shrugged off antiquity’s obsession with elaborate description, and instead have tried to interpret, inhabit, confront, and speak to their subjects (9) 5. although poetry and mathematics often seem to be incompatible areas of study, this seeks to connect them (6) 6. traditionally invoking melancholy, love, longing, and metaphysical questions, are often sung by Iranian, Indian, and Pakistani musicians (7) 8. from the Latin word for 'patchwork', made up of lines from poems by other poets (5) 10. their subject matter dealt with religious themes, love, tragedy, domestic crimes and sometimes even political propaganda (6) Down 2. a poem with such a rigid rhyme scheme, did not start off as a fixed form (10) 3. the thirty-nine-line form is attributed to Arnaut Daniel, the Provencal troubadour of the twelfth century (7) 4. The earliest _____ were devotionals written by Patrick Carey, a seventeenth-century Benedictine monk (8) 7. not unlike the Shakespearean sonnet in trajectory, a form of poetic argument consisting of three stanzas (3, 3) 9. often focusing on images from nature, emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression (5)
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