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Shades, stream
“mother _____ her eyes… looks my way”
“over the drifted _____”
“over the drifted _____”
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Silence, tears
“When we two parted, in ___ __&__ _____ “: Cyclical structure, starts and ends with this
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sever
“Half broken hearted, to _____ for years”
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pale, kiss
“__ _____grew thy cheek and cold, colder thy__ ____”_
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sorrow
“______ to this”
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dew
“____ of the morning sunk chill on my brow”
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vows, light
“_____ are all broken”
“______ is thy fame”
“______ is thy fame”
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spoken, shame
“I hear thy name ______”
“share in its _____” - alliteration
“share in its _____” - alliteration
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knell, shudder
“_____ in mine ear”
“______ comes o’ver me”
“______ comes o’ver me”
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Too well
“They know not I knew thee, who knew thee _______”
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Rue
“Long, long shall I ____ thee, too deeply to tell”
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silence, grieve
“In ______ we met -
in silence I ______”
in silence I ______”
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heart, spirit
“Thy ______ could forget,
Thy ______ could deceive”
Thy ______ could deceive”
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long years, greet'
Silence, tears
Silence, tears
“If I should meet thee after _________, how should I _____ thee?” - rhetorical question, cyclical structure__
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“With ___ __and__ ____”
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“With ___ __and__ ____”
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Lord Byron
* mad, bad, dangerous to know
* Thought to be based on one of his scandalous relationships - Lady Frances Webster
* Romantic Poet - 1788-1824
* Thought to be based on one of his scandalous relationships - Lady Frances Webster
* Romantic Poet - 1788-1824
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structure of WWTP
* 4 octaves
* Regular rhyme scheme
* Cyclical structure
* Flicks between past present and future
* Regular rhyme scheme
* Cyclical structure
* Flicks between past present and future
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WWTP themes
* secret, forbidden love
* Regret, pain, loss, death
* Anger
* Regret, pain, loss, death
* Anger
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WWTP comparisons
* neutral tones
* Winter swans
* Farmer’s bride
* Porphyria’s lover
* Winter swans
* Farmer’s bride
* Porphyria’s lover
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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
* 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”
“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 ______”
“all things by a law ______”
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thine
“Why not I with ____?”
Repetition of mingle at start and end of stanza
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
* 2 stanzas, 2 questions, 2 sentences
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LP comparisons
* when we two parted
* Sonnet 29
* Farmer’s bride
* 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)
“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”
“strong ____ should”
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rustle, trunk
“_____ thy boughs”
“set thy _____ all bare”- phallic imagery of tree and vine
“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”
“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
* 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
* 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 ____”
“sun was white …. Chidden of ____”
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starving, ash
“Few leaves lay on _______ sod”
“fallen from an ____ and were grey”
“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
* 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
* 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”
“______ 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”
“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
* Love
* Long distance relationship
* Longing
* Nature
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LFY structure
* 5 unrhymed tercets
* Irregular rhyme structure
* Enjambment 1-2 stanza, 2-3 stanza
* Irregular rhyme structure
* Enjambment 1-2 stanza, 2-3 stanza
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LFY
* mother any distance
* Climbing my grandfather
* before you were mine
* Follower
* Climbing my grandfather
* before you were mine
* Follower
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Maura Dooley
* relationship with her father
* Born in Cornwall, moved to London for work
* Born in Cornwall, moved to London for work
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Farmer’s bride
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eighteen, turning
“_______ years ago”
“sunny day with leaves just ______”
“sunny day with leaves just ______”
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ruled
“touch lines new ______- since I watched you play”
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satellite, orbit
“like a _______”
“wrenched from its ______” - hyperbole, simile, enjambment
“wrenched from its ______” - hyperbole, simile, enjambment
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drifting
“go ______ away”
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Scatter
“________ of boys”
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walking away
“__________ from me towards…”
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pathos, wilderness
“with the _________ __of a half-fledged thing set free into a__ ____________”
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gait
“_____ of one who finds no path where the path should be”
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hesitant, winged
“_______ figure, eddying away”
“like a _____ seed loosened from its parent stem”
“like a _____ seed loosened from its parent stem”
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convey
“I never quite grasp to ______”
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scorching, fire’s
“nature’s give and take - the small, the ______ _______
__ordeals which__ ____ one’s irresolute clay”
__ordeals which__ ____ one’s irresolute clay”
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gnaws
“worse partings ….. ________ at my mind still”
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perfectly, walking away
“roughly saying what God alone could _______ show”
“selfhood begins with a _________”
“selfhood begins with a _________”
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letting go
“love is proved in the ___________”
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WA structure
* 4x5 stanzas
* 1,3,5 rhyme
* conversational tone - reflected in rhythm of poem’s metre
* title repeated
* 1,3,5 rhyme
* conversational tone - reflected in rhythm of poem’s metre
* title repeated
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WA comparisons
* mother any distance
* Winter swans
* Before you were mine
* Winter swans
* Before you were mine
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WA key themes
INDEPENDENCE, AGING, REFLECTION, CHILDHOOD, MEMORY, PARENTHOOD, NATURE, PARTING
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waiting
“_______ for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock”
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irish, terrier
“father, twenty five”
“same suit, of genuine _____ tweed”
“_____ jack still two years old and trembling at his feet”
“same suit, of genuine _____ tweed”
“_____ jack still two years old and trembling at his feet”
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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”
“______ dress drawn at the waist”
“_______ in her straw hat has spread the white cloth over the grass”
“hair, colour of ________, takes on the light”
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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
“_____ straight from an old HP sauce bottle”
“screw of ______…. cork”
“sets out the same ____ __plates, the tin cups painted.__ _____”- nostalgia
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whitens
“sky ______ as if lit by three suns”