Context & Structure Love & Relationships Poems 2️⃣✅

Question 1

Context for Eden rock

Answer 1

Causley’s father died when he was 7, therfore poem is somewhat autobiographical

Question 2

Structure for Eden rock

Answer 2

Alternate rhyme - highlighting family’s separation

Question 3

Context for Climbing my grandfather

Answer 3

Waterhouse was a known environmentalist & uses lots of euphamisms in nature + hes written a series of nature guidebooks

Question 4

Structure for Climbing my grandfather

Answer 4

Free verse - shows risk of climbing without a safety net, trusts grandfather + Written in the shape of a mountain

Question 5

Context for Letters from Yorkshire

Answer 5

Dooley now a freelance writer, her father works in cornwall

Question 6

Structure for Letters from Yorkshire

Answer 6

Blank verse - written as if its an actual letter

Question 7

Context for Mother, any distance

Answer 7

Poem is autobiographical & references when Armitage 1st moved out of his mother’s house, only a few doors down

Question 8

Structure for Mother, any distance

Answer 8

Free verse - representitive of speaker/ armitage’s younger self craving independence

Question 9

Context for Before you were mine

Answer 9

Autobiographical, Duffy’s mother died very near the time this poem was written - somewhat elegiac

Question 10

Structure for Before you were mine

Answer 10

written as if its an actual letter,Blank verse - written as if its an actual letter, like it’s a letter for her dead mother/ to her mothers younger self

Question 11

Context for Walking away

Answer 11

Autobiographical; poem is thought to be about his 1st son leaving home for boarding school ‘flying the nest’

Question 12

Structure for Walking away

Answer 12

Alternate rhyme - referencing his separation/ distance from his son

Question 13

Context for Follower

Answer 13

Heany grew up in a large family (eldest of 9) so had to endure the pressures of learning the farm and someday inheriting it, actually became poet

Question 14

Structure for Follower

Answer 14

Irregular rhyme - Heany being irregular, not inheriting the farm and being a farmer like his father, but rather a poet

Question 15

Context for When we two parted

Answer 15

It is though that Lord Byron wrote this poem about his past affair whith Lady Frances Webster, about their breaking up, her with a new man & his moving on + adultery she was already married, scandal in victorian period

Question 16

Structure for When we two parted

Answer 16

Alternate rhyme - alludes to the pairs separation
Octaves - structure of poem is very well layed out, juxtaposing Byrons emotions, reflective of how he would have had to appear ‘neat’ in victorian society as his relationship was a scandal

Question 17

Context for Love’s philosophy

Answer 17

Not an autobiographical poem as Shelley was in a comfortable & healthy relationship when he wrote the poem + conceit

Question 18

Structure for Love’s philosophy

Answer 18

Alternate rhyme - reflective of how love in nature is in pairs that come together, also that the pair are not in a relationship and the speaker is attempting to court the lover

Question 19

Context for Sonnet 29

Answer 19

Elizabeth Browning was married to Robert Browning & wrote this poem whilst they were courting, it was a private poem and was only inteded for Robert + the euphamisms for physical intamcy would have been extremly scandalous

Question 20

Structure for Sonnet 29

Answer 20

Sonnet - ultimate love poem
Rhyming Couplets
Iambic Pentameter - sounds like a heartbeat

Question 21

Context for Porphyria’s lover

Answer 21

Porphyria is a hereditary disese which envokes mental disturbances in the person - reflective of the odd behaviour of the speaker

Question 22

Structure for Porphyria’s lover

Answer 22

Dramatic monologue - creates intreguing and unusual character to hear the innternal monologue of
Narrator/ speaker is unreliable

Question 23

Context for Neutral tones

Answer 23

Hardy himself experienced two unhappy marriages himself, leading to his poems having somewhat depressive tone + soon quit poety after this poem

Question 24

Structure of Neutral tones

Answer 24

Enclosed rhyme (ABBA) - how speaker is cutting off his feelings and becoming more enclosed, how he is falling out of love in the poem

Question 25

Context for Winter swans

Answer 25

Swans are monogamous birds that mate for life, making them a symbol of love and fidelity, a perfect role model for the couple in the poem whilst attempting to reconcile their feelings

Question 26

Sructure for Winter swans

Answer 26

Blank verse
The entire poem is in tercets apart from the the final stanza which is a couplet, alluding to how by the end of the poem the couple have reconciled and are back on usual terms/ back as a couple

Question 27

Context for The farmer’s bride

Answer 27

The poem was written at a time where issues were beginning to arise about the way in which men possesed/ owned women. At the time, suffrage/ the suffgratete movement was beggning to gain prominence so Mew is expressing through her poem her own view that woment shouldn’t have their identity tied to their husband

Question 28

Structure for The farmer’s bride

Answer 28

Mew mixes couplets (AABB) with alternate (ABAB) and enclosed rhyme (ABBA), this adds to the discourse in the speakers life and the crazines of the events that occur in the play/ messiness of farm living

Question 29

Context for Singh song!

Answer 29

Nagra himself was the son of an immigrant so poem is somewhat autobiographical BUT IS NOT THE POEM IS FICTITIOUS & NOT ABOUT NAGRA
Nagra wanted to celebrate Indian steryotypes in his poem with the steryotype of british asians owning corner shops very prominant in the poem

Question 30

Structure for Singh song!

Answer 30

Poem written in somewhat free verse, with extremely inconsistent rhyme and inconsistent structure + almost making the poem look and feel like a song with repeated phrases and choruses, reflective of the title of the poem + deliberately written in a way to force an indian accent on the reader (celebrating steryotypes)