love and relationship poems

Question 1

sonnet 29-i think of thee
context:

Answer 1

-autobiographical
-poet had obssesive thoughts of partner and desires him in physical and emotional way
-victorian era-time of taboo so had to show what she wanted through nature

Question 2

sonnet 29-i think of thee
structure

Answer 2

-old sonnet=love is timeless
-vulta early in line 7=impacient to be with him
-lambiac pentermeter-rhyming mimic heartbeat=growing love
-cyclical structure

Question 3

sonnet 29-i think of thee
themes

Answer 3

-nature
-fulfilment
-passion
-intimacy

Question 4

sonnet 29-i think of thee
quotes

Answer 4

-‘my thoughts to twine and bud’
-‘wild vines about a tree’
-‘renew thy presence rustle thy boughs’
-‘i do not think of thee-i am to near thee’

Question 5

sonnet 29-i think of thee
big message

Answer 5

physical and emotional love is needed in relationships

Question 6

winter swans
structure

Answer 6

-last stanza is a couplet=couple reunited
-valta at line 7 when swans come in

Question 7

winter swans
quotes

Answer 7

-‘2 days of rain then a break’
-‘the water logged earth gulping for a breath’
-‘porcelain of the stilling water’
-‘i noticed out hands that had somehow swam the distance between us’

Question 8

winter swans
big message

Answer 8

humans should mimic/copy nature

Question 9

walking away
structure

Answer 9

-regular rhyme scheme=continuos love for son
-first 2 stanzas is memory
-last 2 stanzas is releasation parent needs to let child go

Question 10

walking away
context

Answer 10

-poet brought up by father after mum died
-poet used personal experience bc poem dedicated to his son

Question 11

walking away
quotes

Answer 11

‘a satellite wrenched from its orbit’
‘gnaws at my mind still’
‘love is proved in the letting go’

Question 12

walking away
big message

Answer 12

releasation that a parent proves their love by letting their child gain independence

Question 13

mother any distance
structure

Answer 13

-deconstructed sonnet
-extra line=connection between the speaker and mother joined by tape meassure and blood

Question 14

mother any distance
quotes

Answer 14

-‘mother any distance greater than a single span’
-‘you at the zero end me with the spool of tape’
-‘i space walk through empty bedrooms’
-‘still pinch the last one hundreth of an inch’

Question 15

mother any distance
big message

Answer 15

importannce to a parent when child moves out of the home

Question 16

when we two parted
context

Answer 16

-contrast convential love poem->dont describe senses pleasingingly
-lord byron had reputation for affairs
-poem said to be about his friends wide

Question 17

what type of piem is when we two parted

Answer 17

short lyric poem
formal type of poetry that expresses feeling or enotiojs
typically 1st person

Question 18

when we two parted
big message

Answer 18

retrospective->rmrbs fday his relationship ended
still feels hurt
regrets the rltionship

Question 19

when we two parted
structure

Answer 19

-movement thru time one stanza for past present and future
-cyclical structure
-rhyme n rythm-> pain
-repititipn->hurt not faded

Question 20

when we two parted
quotes

Answer 20

-‘in silence and tears’
-‘half broken hearted to sever for years’
-‘pale grew thy cheek and cold’
-‘and share in its shame’
-‘in secret we met in silence i grieve’

Question 21

when we two parted
lexis

Answer 21

death

Question 22

when we two parted
links

Answer 22

neutrol tonnes
walking away->coming to terms with painful memory