Desire- PL AND ITOT

Question 1

Ts1: Religious semantic field

Answer 1

‘Yet God has not said a word!’

‘Palm tree’

Question 2

Ts2: ITOT- desire to get closer physically

PL- desires to not be physically intimate with love object due to societal standards at the time

Answer 2

‘Perfectly pure’
‘To set its struggling passion free’
‘Hair’
‘Set thy trunk all bare’
‘Rustle thy boughs’
‘Dearer,better’
‘Rather, instantly/ renew thy presence’

Question 3

Ts3: PL- start of poem speaker desires to get physically and emotionally closer to Porphyria and is unsure if it is requited.
ITOT- emotionally close but physically distant

Answer 3

‘Wild vines’
‘When glided in Porphyria;’
‘Heart fit to break’

Question 4

Structure- PL- monologue

Itot- Petrarchan sonnet where Volta comes early

Answer 4

PL- MR- uncomfortable
VR- gothic horror- thrilled
ITOT- emphasises her impatience to see him

Question 5

Topic sentences and structure

Answer 5

1- religious semantic field
2- PL- desire to keep her purity due to societal standards
ITOT- desire to get closer physically
3- PL- desire to get closer but unsure if required at start.
Itot- emotionally close but physically distant
Structure- PL- monologue
ITOT- Volta comes early in Petrarchan sonnet