Studied by 1 personShades, stream
“mother _____ her eyes… looks my way”
“over the drifted _____”
Silence, tears
“When we two parted, in ___ & _____ “: Cyclical structure, starts and ends with this
sever
“Half broken hearted, to _____ for years”
pale, kiss
“__ ___grew thy cheek and cold, colder thy ___”
sorrow
“______ to this”
dew
“____ of the morning sunk chill on my brow”
vows, light
“_____ are all broken”
“______ is thy fame”
spoken, shame
“I hear thy name ______”
“share in its _____” - alliteration
knell, shudder
“_____ in mine ear”
“______ comes o’ver me”
Too well
“They know not I knew thee, who knew thee _______”
Rue
“Long, long shall I ____ thee, too deeply to tell”
silence, grieve
“In ______ we met -
in silence I ______”
heart, spirit
“Thy ______ could forget,
Thy ______ could deceive”
long years, greet'
Silence, tears
“If I should meet thee after _______, how should I _____ thee?” - rhetorical question, cyclical structure
“With ___ and ____”
Lord Byron
mad, bad, dangerous to know
Thought to be based on one of his scandalous relationships - Lady Frances Webster
Romantic Poet - 1788-1824
structure of WWTP
4 octaves
Regular rhyme scheme
Cyclical structure
Flicks between past present and future
WWTP themes
secret, forbidden love
Regret, pain, loss, death
Anger
WWTP comparisons
neutral tones
Winter swans
Farmer’s bride
Porphyria’s lover
Percy Shelley
1792-1822: Dies by drowning
Marys Shelley’s husband
Romantic poet
Radical Athiest
Close friend of Byron
Challenged religious conventions, sometimes approach Pantheism or nature worship
mingle, ocean, heaven
“Fountains ______ with the river”
“Rivers mix with the ______”
“winds of ______ mix for ever”
emotion
“with a sweet ______”
single, divine
“nothing in the world is _____”
“all things by a law ______”
thine
“Why not I with ____?”
Repetition of mingle at start and end of stanza
mountains
“_______ kiss high heaven”- alliteration, personification
clasp
“Waves ____ one another”
flower
“No sister-_____ would be forgiven”
disdain
“_____’d its brother”
sunlight
“______ clasps the earth”
moonbeams
“________ kiss the sea”
kissings
“what are all these ______ worth, if thou kiss not me?”
LP structure
rhyme scheme in both stanzas
2 stanzas, 2 questions, 2 sentences
LP comparisons
when we two parted
Sonnet 29
Farmer’s bride
thee, thoughts
“I think of ____!”
“my _______ do twine and bud”- ext. metaphor male (tree), female (vine)
wild vines
“thee, as ____ ______ about a tree”
leaves
“Put out broad ______, …… nought to see”
green
“except the straggling _____…. Hides the wood”
palm
“_____-tree be it understood”- imperstuvd command
thoughts
“I won’t have my ______ instead of thee”
renew, tree
“Instantly _____ thy presence” - enjambment
“strong ____ should”
rustle, trunk
“_____ thy boughs”
“set thy _____ all bare”- phallic imagery of tree and vine
greenery
“bands of ______ which insphere thee”
heavily
“Drop _____ down - burst, shattered everywhere”- action verbs for onomatopoeia
deep joy, shadow
“__________ to see and hear thee”
“breathe within thy ______ a new air”
cyclical structure
“I do not think of thee- I am too near thee”
S29 structure
octave and sennet
Cyclical structure - WW2P
Thoughts, demanded closeness, together as one
S29 themes & comparisons
fufilment, longing, distance
Climbing my grandfather, singh song
Letters from Yorkshire, winter swans
pond, god
“stood by a _____ that winter day”
“sun was white …. Chidden of ____”
starving, ash
“Few leaves lay on _______ sod”
“fallen from an ____ and were grey”
tedious
“eyes that rove over ______ riddles of years ago”
love
“Lost the more by our ______”
deadest
“smile …. Was the _____ thing”
strength
“alive enough to have ______ to die”
bitterness
“grin of _______ swept thereby”
ominous
“like an ______ bird a wing”
deceives
“keen lessons that love ________”
wrong
“wrings with _______, have shaped to me”
god
“____- curst sun”
greyish
“pond edged with _______ leaves”
NT structure
cyclical structure: Leaves and pond
4 quatrains and abba structure
Enjambment
NT themes
pain, loss, death, bitterness, anger, nature
NT comparisons
When we two parted
Eden Rock
Winter swans
potatoes
“digging his garden, planting _________”: Alliteration
lapwings
“first ________ return”- spring, set in February
Singing
“his knuckles _______ …. As they reddened in the warmth”: Enjambment, personification
romance
“not ______, simply how things are”
seasons
“In the cold, seeing the _______ turning:” Alliteration, enjambment
headlines
“my heartful of ________”: Alliteration
feeding
“_______ words onto a blank screen”: Personification
sow
“Is your life more real because you dig and _____?”
waterbutt, clearing
“You wouldn't say … breaking ice on a _______”
“______ a path through the snow”
world, light
“It’s you who sends me word of that other ______”
“pouring air and ____ into an envelope”
houses
“same news in different _____”
souls
“_____ tap out messages across the icy miles”
LFY themes
communication
Love
Long distance relationship
Longing
Nature
LFY structure
5 unrhymed tercets
Irregular rhyme structure
Enjambment 1-2 stanza, 2-3 stanza
LFY
mother any distance
Climbing my grandfather
before you were mine
Follower
Maura Dooley
relationship with her father
Born in Cornwall, moved to London for work
Farmer’s bride
eighteen, turning
“_______ years ago”
“sunny day with leaves just ______”
ruled
“touch lines new ______- since I watched you play”
satellite, orbit
“like a _______”
“wrenched from its ______” - hyperbole, simile, enjambment
drifting
“go ______ away”
Scatter
“________ of boys”
walking away
“__________ from me towards…”
pathos, wilderness
“with the _________ of a half-fledged thing set free into a ____________”
gait
“_____ of one who finds no path where the path should be”
hesitant, winged
“_______ figure, eddying away”
“like a _____ seed loosened from its parent stem”
convey
“I never quite grasp to ______”
scorching, fire’s
“nature’s give and take - the small, the ______ _______
ordeals which ____ one’s irresolute clay”
gnaws
“worse partings ….. ________ at my mind still”
perfectly, walking away
“roughly saying what God alone could _______ show”
“selfhood begins with a _________”
letting go
“love is proved in the ___________”
WA structure
4x5 stanzas
1,3,5 rhyme
conversational tone - reflected in rhythm of poem’s metre
title repeated
WA comparisons
mother any distance
Winter swans
Before you were mine
WA key themes
INDEPENDENCE, AGING, REFLECTION, CHILDHOOD, MEMORY, PARENTHOOD, NATURE, PARTING
waiting
“_______ for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock”
irish, terrier
“father, twenty five”
“same suit, of genuine _____ tweed”
“_____ jack still two years old and trembling at his feet”
sprigged, ribbon, wheat
“mother, twenty three”
“______ dress drawn at the waist”
“_______ in her straw hat has spread the white cloth over the grass”
“hair, colour of ________, takes on the light”
thermos, milk, paper, three, blue
“pours tea from a _______”
“_____ straight from an old HP sauce bottle”
“screw of ______…. cork”
“sets out the same ____ plates, the tin cups painted. _____”- nostalgia
whitens
“sky ______ as if lit by three suns”
Note
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