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Love and Relationships quotes Flashcards

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What are some quotes from ‘when we two parted’?

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‘in silence and tears’
‘pale grew thy cheek and cold’
‘a knell in mine ear’
‘why wert thou so dear?’

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what are some structural features of ‘when we two parted’?

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  • written in the past, present and future. this shows how he is stuck in his sorrow
  • a neat structure and rhyme scheme shows he is trying to control is feelings
  • a consistent meter suggests control but it is broken in stanza 1.
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what are some quotes from ‘winter swans’?

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‘and then a break/ in which we walked’
‘swans came and stopped us’
‘like boats righting in rough weather’
‘we moved on through the afternoon light’
‘like a pair of wings settling’

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what are some structural features of ‘winter swans’?

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  • 6 tercets and one couplet show how there was disharmony in the relationship but they make up in the end.
  • the lover is given a voice making it intimate
  • it is looking back on the relationship, showing they are in a better place now
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what are some quotes from ‘porphyria’s lover’?

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‘wind […] did its worst to vex the lake’
‘yellow hair’
‘when glided in Porphyria’
‘Porphyria worshipped me’
‘this time my shoulder bore her head’

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what are some structural features of ‘Porphyria’s lover’?

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  • ABABB rhyme scheme suggests he is trying to control madness
  • one long stanza shows lack of control and madness
  • it is a flashback (‘and thus we sit together now’)
  • enjambment shows lack of control
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what are some quotes from ‘walking away’?

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‘almost to the day’
‘gnaws at me still’
‘like a satellite/ wrenched from its orbit’
‘like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’
‘love is proved in the letting go’

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what are some structural features of ‘walking away’?

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  • stanza length shows controlling of feelings
  • ABACA rhyme scheme is slightly disjointed yet regular
  • enjambment shows and overflow of emotion (‘go drifting away/ behind a scatter of boys’)
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what are some quotes from ‘mother, any distance’?

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‘unreeling/ the years between us’
‘you at the zero end, me with the spool of tape’
‘Anchor. Kite.’
‘endless sky/ to fall or fly’

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what are some structural features of ‘mother, any distance’?

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  • an extended metaphor of measurement links to distance
  • almost a sonnet yet the last line breaks it
  • moving from a lower to a higher place (‘climb/ the ladder’)
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what are some quotes from ‘climbing my grandfather’?

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‘old brogues’ to ‘the summit’
‘like warm ice’
‘I decide to do it free’
‘I discover […] a scar, place my feet gently in the old stitches and move on’
‘climbing has its dangers’

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what are some structural features of ‘climbing my grandfather’?

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  • 1 long stanza shows the continued journey of the discovery
  • extended metaphor of the mountain shows adoration
  • moving from a low to a high place shows development
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what are some quotes from ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

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‘fountains mingle with the river’
‘the winds of Heaven mix for ever / with sweet emotion’
‘the mountains kiss high Heaven’
‘why not I with thine?’
‘If thou not kiss me?’

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what are some structural features of ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

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  • repetitive and simple structure suggest the controlling of emotions
  • ABAB CDCD rhyme scheme shows a logical argument being put forward
  • semantic field of nature used to show togetherness
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What are some quotes from ‘Sonnet 29 - I think of thee’?

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  • ‘my thoughts do twine and bud / About thee, as wild vines about a tree’
  • ‘instantly / renew thy presence’
  • ‘burst, shattered, everywhere!’
  • ‘I do not think of thee - I am too near thee’
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what are some structural features of ‘Sonnet 29’?

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  • conforms to the traditional sonnet form which helps to focus and emphasise the emotions being conveyed.
  • the last line subverts the first line, so she now does not need to think as he is around
  • extended metaphor suggests her desperation and how her thoughts are the only things she has
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what are some key quotes in ‘Neutral Tones’?

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  • ‘we stood by a pond that winter day’
  • ‘a few leaves lay on the starving sod / - they had fallen from ash and were grey’
  • ‘the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing / Alive’
  • ‘keen lessons that love deceives, / And wrings with wrong, have shaped me’
  • ‘a pond with greyish leaves’
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what are some structural features of ‘Neutral Tones’?

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  • an ABBA rhyme scheme shows a cyclical structure and the couple’s fractured relationship
  • a cyclical structure of starting and ending at a pond shows he cant move on
  • the indentation of the last line on every stanza suggests emptiness and falling or leaving
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what are some quotes from ‘Singh Song!’?

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  • title
  • ‘vee share in chapatti / vee share in di chutney’
  • ‘above my head high heels tap di ground’
  • ‘she effing at my mum’
  • ‘tiny eyes ov a gun / and di tummy of a teddy’
  • ‘vee cum down whispering stairs / and sit on my silver stool’
  • ‘is priceless baby - ‘
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what are some structural features of ‘Singh Song!’?

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  • structured like a song which returns to a chorus. this is similar to how the narrator has to return to his work from his bride
  • uses non Standard English to make it personal to the narrator and give him a voice
  • Last 8 lines are couplets - showing the intimacy and connection between them
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what are some key quotes from ‘follower’?

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  • ‘his shoulders globed like full sails’
  • ‘An expert.’
  • semantic field of sailing: ‘sail’, ‘wake’
  • ‘I stumbled’ contrasts to the father
  • ‘broad shadow’
  • ‘tripping, falling, yapping always’
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what are some structural features of ‘follower’?

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  • enjambment (‘a single pluck/ of reigns’)
  • ABAB rhyme scheme + 6 quatrains give a sense of the methodical ploughing
  • half rhymes suggest that the son cannot follow the father
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what are some quotes from ‘before you were mine’?

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  • ‘marylin.’
  • ‘in the ballroom with the thousand eyes’
  • ‘the fizzy, movie tomorrows/the right walk home could bring’
  • ‘the decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one, eh?’
  • ‘stamping stars’
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what are some structural features of ‘before you were mine’?

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  • four quintets but with free verse suggests the two sides of the mother
  • enjambment with endstopped stanzas - suggests the carefree girl then the lack of freedom as a mother
  • free verse + 1st person helps to make it intimate as it is addressed to the mother
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what are some quotes from ‘letters from yorkshire’?

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  • ‘our souls tap out messages across the icy miles’
  • ‘planting potatoes’
  • ‘his knuckles singing/ as they redden in the warmth’
  • ‘it’s not romance’
  • ‘is your life more real because you dig and sow?’
  • ‘word of that other world’
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what are some structural features of ‘letters from yorkshire’?

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  • 5 tercets of free verse - disjointed because they live in different worlds
  • free verse suggests they are friends
  • motif of commication
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what are some quotes from ‘the farmer’s bride’?

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  • ‘too young maybe - ‘
  • ‘little frightened fay’
  • ‘wide brown stare’
  • ‘flying like a hare’
  • ‘like a mouse’
  • ‘i’ve hardly heard her speak at all’
  • ‘shy as a leveret’
  • ‘but what to me?’
  • ‘the brown, the brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair!’
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what are some structural features of ‘the farmer’s bride’?

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  • dramatic monologue - revealing about the narrator
  • no set pattern/number of lines for each stanza - wife is not fulfilling hte standards of society
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What are some quotes from ‘eden rock’?

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  • ‘her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light’
  • ‘the same three plates, tin cups painted blue’
  • ‘as if lit by three suns’
  • ‘they are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock’
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what are some structural features of ‘eden rock’?

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  • quatrains
  • last line breaks the structure to emphasise it
  • half rhymes of an ABAB rhyme scheme
  • all is not quite right - death or uncertainty

GCSE AQA English Lit (3 decks)

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