English lit: Love Poetry

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What is the narrative of ‘Sonnet 29: I think of thee!’?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s borderline obsessive thoughts about her lover Robert Browning

Sexual undertones shown through nature

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What is the voice in ‘Sonnet 29: I think of thee!’?

1st person, very personal

Not intended to be republishes

Written by EBB to RB

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What themes are shown in ‘Sonnet 29: I think of thee!’?

  • Romantic love

  • Longing

  • Fulfilment

  • Desire

  • Nature

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What structure is used in ‘Sonnet 29: I think of thee!’?

Petrachan sonnet (14 lines) - two quatrains (4 lines), one sestet (8 lines)

Written in iambic tetrameter

Suggests traditional nature of her love

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What is sown in the opening/ending of ‘Sonnet 29: I think of thee!’?

Resolution, RB is back

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What rhythm is used in ‘Sonnet 29: I think of thee!’?

  • Iambic tetrameter

  • Each line has 10 syllables, 5 stressed, 5 unstressed

  • Slow rhythm represents her obsessive thoughts

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What is the context behind ‘Sonnet 29: I think of thee!’?

1800’s written about RB who she was courting not yet married

Written for RB not public audience

Published in a collection of 44 sonnets

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What are some key quotations in ‘Sonnet 29: I think of thee!’?

‘My thoughts do twine and bud About thee, as wild vines, about a tree’

‘O my palm tree’

‘I will not have my thoughts instead of thee’

‘I do not think of thee - I am too near thee’

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What narrative is used in ‘Singh Song’?

The love a shop worker had for his wife and outs her over his duties

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What voice is used in ‘Singh Song’?

Mr Singh, first person

Not directed to anyone

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What themes are shown in ‘Singh Song’?

  • Love

  • Marriage

  • Desire

  • Indian culture

  • Sexual relationship

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What Structure is used in ‘Singh Song’?

9 stanzas, varying length

Smooth rhythm, song like qualities

Irregular rhyme scheme

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What is shown in the opening/ending of ‘Singh Song’?

Cyclical structure, repeat everyday

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What rhythm is used in ‘Singh Song’?

Fast, comical

Broken English to mimic Indian accent

Lyrical structure to mimic a song

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What context is behind ‘Singh Song’?

Based on Dalit Nagra’s parents who own a corner shop

Explores the concept of ‘Britishness’
His parents are Punjabi Sikh Indians who moved to Britain in the late 50’s

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What are some key quotations from ‘Singh Song’?

‘In di worst Indian shop on di whole Indian road’

‘my bride tiny eyes ov a gun and di tummy ov a teddy’

‘How much do yoo charge for dat moon baby?… Half di cost of yoo baby … Is priceless baby’

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What is the narrative of ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

The speaker is addressing a potential lover and persuading her to Kiss him. He emphasises that everything in nature comes in pairs hinting that they should be together

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What is the voice in ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

Shelly speaking from own experience

1st person

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What themes are shown in ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

  • Nature

  • Romantic love

  • Unrequited love

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What structure is used in ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

Lyric poem like a song

Two octaves (8lines)

Regular rhyme scheme ABABCDCD

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What is shown in the opening / ending of ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

Starts using nature to shown desire

By the end her reveals his true thoughts

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What rhythm is used in ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

Slow and romantic

Rhyming couplets

2 stanza to represent couples

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What is the context behind ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

PBS was a major romantic poet who loved nature

Poetry should be the voice of transformation

Written in 1820 when Shelly was living gin Italy

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What are some key quotations in ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

‘The fountains mingle with the river’

‘The winds of heaven mix for ever’

‘Nothing in the world is single’

‘Why no I with thine?’

‘If thou kiss not me?’

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What is the narrative of ‘Porphyria’s lover’?

A man cannot cope with his emotions towards his lover so he strangles her & spends the night with her corpse

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What voice is used in ‘Porphyria’s lover’?

Male speaker, narrator, ‘Porphyria’s lover’

1st person

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What themes are shown in ‘Porphyria’s lover’?

  • Romantic love

  • Obsession

  • Violence

  • Paranoia

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What structure is used in ‘Porphyria’s lover’?

Dramatic monologue

Reads like a story

No separate sections

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What does the opening/ending show in ‘Porphyria’s lover’?

Resolution - he got what he wanted

Circle of life

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What rhythm is used in ‘Porphyria’s lover’?

Natural form of then poem mirrors speech

ABABB rhyme scheme

Want to read like chronological order

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What context is behind ‘Porphyria’s lover’?

Written in 1836 by RB

Victorian era, religious times

Scandalous writing more likely to be published

Often used speakers to depict fictional stories

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What are some key quatations in ‘Porphyria’s lover’?

she rose …. withdrew the dripping clock and shawl

give herself to me forever

Porphyria worshipped me … made my heart swell

No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain

Warily opened her eyes again

‘smiling rosy little head’

And yet god has not said a word

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What is the narrative in ‘The Farmers Bride’?

A farmer marries a young girl who runs away

She doesn’t engage with her husband or any men and prefers animals

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What voice is used in ‘The Farmers Bride’?

Farmer POV

1st person

Bride had no vice

Self - centred man

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What themes are shown in ‘The Farmers Bride’?

  • Romantic love

  • Longing

  • ISolation

  • Nature

  • Power imbalance

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What structure is used in ‘The Farmers Bride’?

6 stanzas

Varying amount of lines
9,9,10,6,8

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What is shown in the opening / ending of ‘The Farmers Bride’?

Symbolises farmers life & the cycle he is now stuck in

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What context is behind ‘The Farmers Bride’?

Born in upper middle class

Mental illness

Struggled to deal with men

1928 committed suicide

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What are some key quotations in ‘The Farmers Bride’?

Chose a maid

Too young maybe - but more’s to do. At harvest tike than bide and woo

We chased her

We caught her

‘Tis but a stair betwixt us

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What is the Narrative in ‘Winter Swans’?

A couple are walking together in a brief patch of good weather after 2 days of rain. Previous argument separates them, reunited by the end

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What is the voice in ‘Winter Swans’?

1st perosn

2 speakers

Addressing someone they are romantically involved in

Ambiguous if its an autobiography or not

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What themes are shown in ‘Winter Swans’?

  • Couples arguments

  • Separation

  • Nature

  • Heavy emotions

  • Resolution

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What structure is used in ‘Winter Swans’?

No rhyme scheme or consistent syllable count

7 stanzas - 6 with 3 lines

Last stanza 2 lines - couple

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What is shown in the opening / ending of ‘Winter Swans’?

Resolution - relationship problems solved, resolves tension

Not necessarily solved forever

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What are some key quotations in ‘Winter Swans’?

Two days of rain

We skirted the lake, silent and apart

tipping in unison

“They mate for life“

Our hands … had … swum the distance between us

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What is the narrative for ‘When we two parted’?

The speaker looks back at the end of a secret relationship / affair. It described the sadness he felt when they broke up and the guild he now feels as his ‘lover’ is subject to gossip because she cheated

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What is the voice in ‘When we two parted’?

1st person

Addressed to ex-lover

Speaker is lord Byron & woman is Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster

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What is the structure in ‘When we two parted’?

4 octaves

regular rhyme scheme

time shifts over each stanza - past, past-present, present, future

speakers feelings will last forever

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What themes are shown in ‘When we two parted’?

  • Secret love

  • Separation

  • unfaithful

  • foreboding

  • regret

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What is shown in the opening/ ending of ‘When we two parted’?

Cyclical structure ‘silence & tears’

Unable to forget, never be free from the intense emotions

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What rhythm is used in ‘When we two parted’?

Slow & sad

represents pain felt by speaker

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What is the context behind ‘When we two parted’?

Born in 1788

Died 1824

British romantic poet renowned for many love affairs

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What are some key quotations from ‘When we two parted’?

In silence and tears

Sunk chill on my brow It felt like the warning of what I feel now.

In secret we met In silence I grieve

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What is the narrative in ‘Letters from Yorkshire’?

Friends keeping in touch through letters. Living very different lives - one lives in agriculture the other in news

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What is the voice in ‘Letters from Yorkshire’?

1st person (assumed to be Dooley)

Speaker lives in city

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What themes are shown in ‘Letters from Yorkshire’?

  • Nature

  • Distance

  • Friendship

  • Communication

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What is the structure in ‘Letters from Yorkshire’?

Five stanza, tercet

First 4 - speaker & other person separate lives

Final stanza - closer ‘together’

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What is shown in the opening/ending of ‘Letters from Yorkshire’?

Resolution? - acceptance

cyclical - repetitive year round structure

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What is the rhythm in ‘Letters from Yorkshire’?

  • Enjambment

  • Sounds like normal speech - ordinary separate yet connected lives

  • Most lines have 5 beats or stresses

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What is the context behind ‘Letters from Yorkshire’?

Pooley lived in multiple places throughout her life Cornwall, London, Bristol, Yorkshire

Disparity between urban & rural life

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What are some key quotations in ‘Letters from Yorkshire’?

It’s not romance, simply how things are

Feeding words onto a blank screen

word of that other world

Watching the same news in different houses

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What is the Narrative of ‘Neutral tones’?

The speaker is recounting meeting with a former lover at the side of a pond. It was winter when they met so the atmosphere is cold and deathlike showing that they no longer love each other.

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What voice is used in ‘Neutral tones’?

1st person

Speaker is more upset than the lover

No positivity

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What themes are shown in ‘Neutral tones’?

  • Winter

  • Regret

  • Break-up

  • Death

  • Love

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What structure is used in ‘Neutral tones’?

1st stanza - gloomy atmosphere

2nd stanza - He ‘wasted time’ in the relationship & is embittered

3rd stanza - speaker is unwaveringly resentful

Cyclical structure - end of relationship but continued pain, unable to move on

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What is shown in the opening/ending of ‘Neutral tones’?

Opening presents a continuous theme of winter

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What rhythm is used in ‘Neutral tones’?

ABBA rhyme scheme

Quatrains are in tetrameter (faster than iambic tetrameter)

Contrasts stagnant atmosphere of poem

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What context is behind ‘Neutral tones’?

  • Hardy was depressed, insecure - showed unhappiness and negativity in his poetry

  • Not clear if poem was about specific event or just general feeling towards women (2 unhappy marriages)

  • One of last poems he wrote

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What are some key quotations in ‘Neutral Tones’?

Fallen from an ash, and were grey

Words played between us to and fro

The smile eon your mouth was the deadest thing

Alive enough to have strength to die

grin of bitterness