Comparisons Flashcards
BFYWM + ER Sims + Quote
Speakers present fond memories - love transcends a loved one
Semi - autobiographical
Both connote afterlife BFYWM - mothers “ghost” ER uses “drifted stream” as metaphor for passing into afterlife - “crossing is not as hard as you think”
BFYWM + ER Diffs + Quote
ER speaker describes memory in present tense, BFYWM fluctuates between different frames of memory - goes beyond speakers childhood memories
Duffy uses direct address “you”, “your” could show more intimacy than Causley who refers to parents as “they” - distance
CMG + Follower Sims + Quote
Idolising family member
Extended metaphor of extreme sports, sailing and climbing
“rope or net” “full sail strung”
CMG + Follower Diff + Quote
Diff structures, CMG loose structure in free verse, Follower rigid ABAB with iambic pentameter
Heaney reflecting on childhood, Waterhouse speaking in present tense from perspective of child
LFY + MAD Sims + Quote
Unconventional means in order maintain healthy relationship
“Pouring air and light” “the line still feeding out”
Metaphor in LFY “our souls tap out messages across the icy miles”, reflects how the relationship is working
LFY + MAD Diff + Quote
LFY - gap between the two of them “watching the same news in different houses”
MAD - growing apart through extended metaphor of tape “unreeling years between us”
LP + FB Sims + Quote
Frustration from desire being unrealised, Shelly through sibilance “single”, “kiss”, “clasp”, “sea”. Mew through dejection “Tis but a stair betwixt us”, “some other in the house than we”
LP + FB Diff + Quote
FB nature symbol for girls oppression through violent fricatives “frightened fay”, prey like connotations of “flying like a hare” Shelley references nature to create beautiful images through personification, “fountains mingle with the river”, “the sunlight clasps the earth”
NT + WS Sims + Quote
Colour imagery - or lack of NT “pond edged with greyish leaves” and “white” sun, WS “dark water”, “icebergs of white feather”
Sense of stagnancy - WS “stilling water”, “slow stepping” - Hardy uses temporal deixis in “tedious riddles of years ago”
NT + WS Diff+ Quote
NT Hardy shows clear end to relationship - death imagery “the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing”
WS Still life remaining - reported speech “They mate for life, you said”
S29 + PL Sims + Quote
Unhealthy fixation on lover, S29 “twine” and “bud” - smothering love, PL objectifies “her smooth white shoulder bare”
Natural imagery - PL - pathetic fallacy “The sullen wind was soon awake”, S29 extended metaphor of vines “wild vines about a tree” “the straggling green which hides the wood”
Speaker is unfulfilled, become fulfilled in relationship, PL “too weak for all hearts endeavour, to set its straggling passion free”, satisfied with exclamatory “love, am gained instead” - S29 initially desperate “I think of thee!” - all she can think about, turning point in sonnet, subverted repetition “I do not think of thee, I am too near thee”
S29 + PL Diff + Quote
S29 recognises unhealthy obsession, turning point “I will not have my thoughts instead of thee” - admits to constant obsession
PL not same awareness - final hubristic line “and yet god has not said a word!” - lack of remorse
S29 rigid sonnet form, PL is continuous, S29 is more conventional
S29 + Singh Song Sims + Quote
Demonstrate all consuming love - affect on speaker, romantic fulfilment
Natural imagery demonstrates love for partner
Overly positive attitude towards love
Sexual implications “pinnie untied” “thy trunk all bare”
S29 + Singh Song Diff + Quote
S29 more traditional structure
Singh song pace flows towards end, S29 rhythm is consistent
WA + MAD Sims + Quote
Concept of letting child transition to adulthood
Caesura to demonstrate past into present
Final couple of lines to conclude poets reflection “love is proved in the letting go” “to fall or fly”
Direct address - intimate connection between speaker and other
