Love and relationships Poetry

Question 1

What 3 poems show romantic loss?

Answer 1

-When we two parted
-Neutral tones
-The Farmers Bride

Question 2

What 2 poems show parent/child rebellion?

Answer 2

-Before you were mine
-Singh Song

Question 3

What 4 poems show growing older?

Answer 3

-Walking away
-Mother any distance
-Singh song
-Climbing my grandfather

Question 4

What is ‘When we two parted’ about?

Answer 4

How the narrator looks back on the day he parted from his lover who didnt seem to share the passion he felt after having an illicit affair.

Question 5

What does the structure of ‘When we two parted’ show?

Answer 5

The poem shifts from the past, through the present and into the future and remains down hearted throughout and notably shows the narrator believes his feelings will not change if he were to meet his lover again some day.

Question 6

What is the setting like in ‘When we two parted’?

Answer 6

The setting is largely unidentifiable, heightening the secrecy.

Question 7

A quote from ‘When we two parted’

Answer 7

-‘How should i greet thee?/With silence & tears’
-‘In secret we met/In silence I grieve’
-‘They know not I knew thee/ Who knew thee too well’
-‘Pale grew thy cheek and cold/ Colder thy kiss’

Question 8

What does the quote ‘Pale grew thy cheek and cold/colder thy kiss’ use to show the narrators feelings?

Answer 8

Death imagery shows grief and pain.

Question 9

What is ‘Loves Philosophy’ about?

Answer 9

The narrator is addressing a potential lover and puts forward a case why she should love him.

Question 10

A quote from ‘Loves Philosophy’

Answer 10

-‘All things by a law divine’
-‘What is all this sweet work worth/If thou kiss not me?’
-‘And the moonbeams kiss the sea’
-‘‘And the waves clasp one another’

Question 11

What can be gathered from the quote ‘And the waves clasp one another’?

Answer 11

Physical language- the repetition of kiss, clasp, etc reinforces the narrator’s physical desire

Question 12

Why does Shelley refer alot to nature in ‘Loves Philosophy’?

Answer 12

Personfication of nature- Shelley suggests aspects of nature benefit from pairing, thus making the pairing of humans a natural thing to.

Question 13

What does the long list used to pursuade the potential lover show about the narrator in ‘Loves Philosophy’?

Answer 13

Craving- builds his case line by line

Question 14

How are roles portrayed in ‘Porhyria’s Lover’?

Answer 14

Roles are reversed as the poem unfolds with Porphyria initially active, to the speaker moving from passive to active.

Question 15

What point has Browning used to reflect Victorian society in ‘Porhyria’s Lover’ ?

Answer 15

‘Porhyria’s Lover’ is virtually all made up of masculine rhymes, perhaps reflecting the male dominated Victorian society in which it was written.

Question 16

Quote from ‘Porhyria’s Lover’

Answer 16

-‘Nor could tonight’s gay feast restrain’
-‘And made her smooth white shoulder bare’
-‘She shut the cold out and the storm’
-‘Porphyria worshipped me’
-‘So glad it has it’s utmost will’
-‘Yet God has not said a word’
-‘Laughed the blues eyes without a tain’

Question 17

What does the quote’So glad it has it’s utmost will’ show in ‘Porhyria’s Lover’?

Answer 17

She is now an ‘it’- a thing- to the narrator. He imagines she is happy in death, she can no longer leave him.

Question 18

What does the quote ‘yet God has not said a word!’ show in ‘Porhyria’s Lover’?

Answer 18

Exclammation mark shows glee. God is a voice of judgement and has not condemed him and he shows no no regret/remorse. He believes he had got a way with it.

Question 19

What is ‘Sonnet 29’ about?

Answer 19

The narrator (Browning herself) expresses her thoughts to a Lover

Question 20

Quotes from ‘Sonnet 29’

Answer 20

-‘I would not have my thoughts instead of thee’
-‘Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare’
-‘I think of thee! - my thoughts do twine and bud’

Question 21

What imagery is used in ‘Sonnet 29’?

Answer 21

Natural imagery- an extended metaphor depicts the woman’s thoughts as a vine growing rapidly around a palm tree.

Question 22

How is love portrayed in ‘Sonnet 29’?

Answer 22

Physical and spiritual love- the language of the narrators thoughts and commands for her lover to appear are both sexual and religious

Question 23

How are the womens emotions portrayed in ‘Sonnet 29’?

Answer 23

Passion- the woman’s language is forceful and overwhelming: she uses plosive sounds and the intamcy of ‘thee’ to convey the intensity of her feelings.

Question 24

In ‘Sonnet 29’ ‘thy trunk all bare’ is what type of imagery?

Answer 24

Sensual imagery

Question 25

Quotes from ‘Neutral tones’

Answer 25

-‘The sun was white as though chidden of God’
-‘The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing’
-‘A few leaves lay on the starven sod’

Question 26

What do the references to God show in ‘Neutral tones’?

Answer 26

The references to God links in religion and how some kind of divine intervention is to blamed for this.
( Divine intervention- When God becomes actively involved in human affairs)

Question 27

Why does the narrator describe the surroundings and her smile being lifeless in ‘Neutral tones’?

Answer 27

describing the landscape like this makes their relationship seem barren,bleak and desolate.

Question 28

What type of relationship is ‘Letters from Yorkshire’ about?

Answer 28

Between grandad and grandaughter- written by grandaughter

Question 29

Quotes from ‘Letters from Yorkshire’

Answer 29

-‘Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles’
-‘feeding words onto a blank screen’
-‘You out there, in the cold, seeing the seasons’
-‘Is your life more real because you dig and sow?’

Question 30

What does it show that the narrator is writing on a blank screen in ‘Letters from Yorkshire’?

Answer 30

Implies she isnt progressing even through hard work it remains blank and she isnt going anywhere with it

Question 31

In ‘Letters from Yorkshire’ what does the quote ‘Is your life more real because you dig and sow?’ show about what the narrator is thinking?

Answer 31

Questioning if his life is more worthwhile.

Question 32

In ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ why doess the writer present the farmer’s dialect like this?

Answer 32

The farmer’s dialect and first-person account allow an interesting persona to develop, arguable a sympathetiic one. Also shows how the farmer lacks intelligence in everything but farming, farming may be the only thing hes known for his entire life and therefore doesnt know how to treat a women.

Question 33

Quotes from ‘The Farmer’s Bride’

Answer 33

-‘We chased her, flying like a hare’
-‘Three summers since I chose a maid’
-‘The brown of her- her eyes, her hair, her hair!’

Question 34

In ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ what does the quote ‘The brown of her- her eyes, her hair, her hair!’ show?

Answer 34

Shows how the narrator has only took real notice of the girl and who she really is other thanusing her house chores after ‘Three summers’

Question 35

What type of relationship is shown in ‘Walking Away’?

Answer 35

Father and son

Question 36

Quotes from ‘Walking Away’

Answer 36

-‘How selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go’
-‘Like a satelite/ Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away’
-‘Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’

Question 37

In ‘Walking Away’ what can be gathered from the quote ‘How selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go’?

Answer 37

-Presents walking away as an event maybe one many people go through.
-Where independance begins.
-End of poem but the ending creates a new beginning.
-It is a lesson that the parent has also gone through

Question 37

In ‘Walking Away’ what can be gathered from the quote ‘Like a satelite/ Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away’?

Answer 37

-Simile that shows the parent at the centre
-Verb ‘Wrenched’ shows taken with force and may make it seem like a big deal to the parent
-verb ‘drifting’ shows it is slow

Question 38

In ‘Walking Away’ what can be gathered from the quote ‘Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’?

Answer 38

-natural imagery of life
-seed shows new life
-loosened suggest grandual coming away

Question 39

Quotes from ‘Eden Rock’

Answer 39

-‘They are waiting for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock’
-‘Sky whitens as if lit by three suns’
-‘They beckon to me from the other bank’
-‘Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light’
-‘Genuine Irish Tweed’

Question 40

In ‘Eden Rock’ what does the quote ‘Sky whitens as if lit by three suns’ mean?

Answer 40

Possibly religious and adds to the theory that the narrators parents are dead and waiting for him to cross into heaven. Three suns may relate to the holy trinity.

Question 41

In ‘Eden Rock’ what does the quote ‘Her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light’ show?

Answer 41

Shows how the mothers hair shines and is almost angelic.

Question 42

Quotes from ‘Follower’

Answer 42

-‘I stumbled in his nob-nailed wake’
-‘sometimes he rode me on his back’
-‘his shoulders globed like a full sail strung’
-‘i was a nuisance tripping and falling’
-‘it is my father who keeps stumbling’

Question 43

In ‘Follower’ what does the quote ‘his shoulders globed like a full sail strung’ suggest.

Answer 43

Simile shows power and suggest the father performs his best out in nature. Alliteration

Question 44

Which two quotes are used to create a comparison?

Answer 44

‘I was a nuisance tripping and falling’ and ‘But today/ it is my father who keeps stumbling’

Question 45

What structural techniques are used in ‘I was a nuisance tripping and falling’ and ‘But today/ it is my father who keeps stumbling’?

Answer 45

Time shift, ‘but’ emphasises the time shift

Question 46

Quotes from ‘Mother, Any Distance’

Answer 46

-‘Anchor. Kite.’
-‘I space walk through the empty bedrooms’
-‘You at the zero-end’
-‘the acres of walls, the priaries of the floors.’

Question 47

What does ‘Anchor. Kite.’ implie
?

Answer 47

An anchor is heavy and designed to hold something in place where as the kite will always fly the furthest away from the centre as possible but if let go it will be taken by the wind and has no boundaries. It will be taken anywhere as long as its let go off.