Love & Relationships Quotes & Techniques Flashcards
2 stanzas
Reinforces theme of couples
Enjambment & Endstopping
Varying pace reflects unpredictable/exhilerating nature of love
Rhetorical questions at the end of each stanza
Narrows from universal ideas to personal
Provokes thought
Examples of couples in nature
Love is natural
Examples of lack of rejection
Rejection is unnatural
Repeated use of “And”
Emphasises/draws attention to the number of examples he is listing
Use of absolutes
Shows her that she is definitely meant be with him
Examples of absolutes
“for ever”
“nothing”
“all things”
Repeated use of intimate verbs
Suggestive, ingrains idea into her head
Examples of intimate verbs
“mingle” x2
“mix”
“kiss” x3
“clasp” x2
Repeated mention of the divine
Shows love to be heavenly
Examples of the divine
“Heaven” x2
“divine”
Mention of the divine interesting, because…
Shelley was an atheist
Was expelled from Oxford for publishing a book on atheism
“The fountains…
mingle with the river”
“The winds of…
heaven mix for ever”
