* 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
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mingle, ocean, heaven
“Fountains ______ with the river”
“Rivers mix with the ______”
“winds of ______ mix for ever”
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emotion
“with a sweet ______”
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single, divine
“nothing in the world is _____”
“all things by a law ______”
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thine
“Why not I with ____?”
Repetition of mingle at start and end of stanza
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mountains
“_______ kiss high heaven”- alliteration, personification
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clasp
“Waves ____ one another”
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flower
“No sister-_____ would be forgiven”
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disdain
“_____’d its brother”
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sunlight
“______ clasps the earth”
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moonbeams
“________ kiss the sea”
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kissings
“what are all these ______ worth, if thou kiss not me?”
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LP structure
* rhyme scheme in both stanzas * 2 stanzas, 2 questions, 2 sentences
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LP comparisons
* when we two parted * Sonnet 29 * Farmer’s bride
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thee, thoughts
“I think of ____!”
“my _______ do twine and bud”- ext. metaphor male (tree), female (vine)
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wild vines
“thee, as ____ ______ about a tree”
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leaves
“Put out broad ______, …… nought to see”
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green
“except the straggling _____…. Hides the wood”
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palm
“_____-tree be it understood”- imperstuvd command
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thoughts
“I won’t have my ______ instead of thee”
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renew, tree
“Instantly _____ thy presence” - enjambment
“strong ____ should”
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rustle, trunk
“_____ thy boughs”
“set thy _____ all bare”- phallic imagery of tree and vine
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greenery
“bands of ______ which insphere thee”
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heavily
“Drop _____ down - burst, shattered everywhere”- action verbs for onomatopoeia
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deep joy, shadow
“__________ to see and hear thee”
“breathe within thy ______ a new air”
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cyclical structure
“I do not think of thee- I am too near thee”
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S29 structure
* octave and sennet * Cyclical structure - WW2P * Thoughts, demanded closeness, together as one
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S29 themes & comparisons
* fufilment, longing, distance * Climbing my grandfather, singh song * Letters from Yorkshire, winter swans
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pond, god
“stood by a _____ that winter day”
“sun was white …. Chidden of ____”
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starving, ash
“Few leaves lay on _______ sod”
“fallen from an ____ and were grey”
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tedious
“eyes that rove over ______ riddles of years ago”
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love
“Lost the more by our ______”
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deadest
“smile …. Was the _____ thing”
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strength
“alive enough to have ______ to die”
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bitterness
“grin of _______ swept thereby”
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ominous
“like an ______ bird a wing”
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deceives
“keen lessons that love ________”
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wrong
“wrings with _______, have shaped to me”
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god
“____- curst sun”
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greyish
“pond edged with _______ leaves”
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NT structure
* cyclical structure: Leaves and pond * 4 quatrains and abba structure * Enjambment
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NT themes
pain, loss, death, bitterness, anger, nature
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NT comparisons
* When we two parted * Eden Rock * Winter swans
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potatoes
“digging his garden, planting _________”: Alliteration
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lapwings
“first ________ return”- spring, set in February
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Singing
“his knuckles _______ …. As they reddened in the warmth”: Enjambment, personification
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romance
“not ______, simply how things are”
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seasons
“In the cold, seeing the _______ turning:” Alliteration, enjambment
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headlines
“my heartful of ________”: Alliteration
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feeding
“_______ words onto a blank screen”: Personification
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sow
“Is your life more real because you dig and _____?”
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waterbutt, clearing
“You wouldn't say … breaking ice on a _______”
“______ a path through the snow”
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world, light
“It’s you who sends me word of that other ______”
“pouring air and ____ into an envelope”
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houses
“same news in different _____”
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souls
“_____ tap out messages across the icy miles”
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LFY themes
* communication * Love * Long distance relationship * Longing * Nature