may

Question 1

form

Answer 1

13 line sonnet, implies that something is missing

volta followed by 5 rather than 6 lines

Question 2

metre

Answer 2

iambic tetrameter

Question 3

rhyme scheme

Answer 3

consistent

Question 4

cesura ‘ah, pleasent may’ effect

Answer 4

reflective

Question 5

pathetic fallacy effect

Answer 5

may- happiness, love, sexuality, fertility

old, cold and gray- lost love, melancholy

Question 6

repetition of ‘passed away’ effect

Answer 6

euphamism for death and enforces idea of transcience of life

shows fleetingness of earthly love

Question 7

fleeting metaphor of may significance/ matapghor of seasons

Answer 7

metaphor for transcience of youth/innocence

Question 8

‘blades of tender corn’

Answer 8

suggestion of fragility of innocence and unawareness of danger of the world (tenderness of feelings in the intesity of a relationship?0

Question 9

significance of Volta

Answer 9

switch in tone, passing of may and longing for it back

Question 10

‘not born’ ‘not hatched’ significance

Answer 10

idea of liminal space between life and death- connotes innocence and vulnerability/sexual innocence

also connotes longing for maternity and familial bond

Question 11

significance of natural imagrey in firt octave

Answer 11

-idea of fertility and rebirth (before her ‘mate leaves her and she rejects this idea of love and fertility)

Question 12

poppies significance

Answer 12

stypical of pre-raphelite painting, but there is bleakness to poppy feilds showing lack of longevity to this love)

Question 13

rhyming triplet

Answer 13

However its sad ambiguity creates a sense of the blues, and that it was over too soon

Question 14

significance of context of time written

Answer 14

written 1855, year after her engangement with james collinson was called off