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When we two parted
painful end of relationship
Neutral tone
painful memory close to end of relationship
Winter swans
couples experience difficulty in their relationships
Singh song
marriage Indian speaker, who would rather spend all of his time with his new wife than running the family business
Loves philosophy
romantic plea to persuade a young women to succumb to physical desire and kiss the man
Farmers bride
young women take as bride for a man and her unhappiness that follows
Porphyria’s lover
poems deals with the fatal meetings of two lovers
Sonnet 29
from a women to her lover telling him how much she loves him and longs for seeing him to be by her side
Walking away
memory for a father has watching his own son walks away to play his first game of football
Follower
is a poem that focuses on the relationship between father and son, shifting in perspective from past to present, giving the reader an insight into a son’s reaction to the passing of time and that same father grown old
Mother any distance
son measuring up his first house, with the help of his mother
Climbing my grandfather
is an extended metaphor, comparing the grandfather into a mountain, that the grandfather climbs
Eden Rock
description of a picnic the poet has with parents
Before you were mine
about a poet idealized memories of his mother
Letters from Yorkshire
about a poet receiving letters from her lover. these letters gave her a window into his life in Yorkshire, a life that she misses and yearns for
