Ever Changing Love- Poem 85 Flashcards

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Themes

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Explores the doubts and uncertainties of love.

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Short sentences

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Convey the poet’s anger and torment.

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eight verbs, no adjectives or adverbs.

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Doesn’t try to qualify his feelings within the poem- he just expresses them.

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Poet’s attitude within the poem

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There is no attempt to solve the problem within the poem.

Facts are simply stated- this is all the poet is capable of in his despair.

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‘requiris’

you ask

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Involves another person so that the poet can then answer his own question.

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‘nescio’ ‘sentio et excrucior’

I do not know, I feel and I am in torment.

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He doesn’t know why he feels, but his senses are fully engaged.

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