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When We Two Parted:

  • 5 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
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  • “the dew of the morning”
  • “cold, colder thy kiss”
  • “long long will i rue thee”
  • “pale”
  • “silence and tears”

1) “dew” mirrors his physical grief - toxic masculinity because its a eupahmism to emotion - somehow blaming woman for reducing his masculinty - scornful, accusatory
“morning” subverted meaning of ‘fresh start’ to that of gruelling monotony and mundanity - hompohone for morning links to secrecy of affair - morning is inevitable - perhaps views of society and religion - inevitable end of sinful affair - mirrors bleak transition to winter - stresses letting things go like leaves on tree - keeping the necessary

2) “colder” rep empahises how love is seeping out - could also highlight how resentment and cold attitude is supplanting prior love - empahsies resentment towards woman

3) rep of “long” shows cyclicality of grief - mimics the loop of day/night - how it never ceases to arrive and ‘be’

4) “pale” - dead - inevitable? - decay, impure, gods message, implies a gory punishment

5) rep of “silence….” shows cyclicality of grief, neverending

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When We Two Parted:

Context

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Byron in secret affair w/woman who went back to husband

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When We Two Parted:

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ABAB - regularity, continuity - emphasis on loop of grief - subject to pessimistic eternity - perhaps a comment on how men feel when a woman is no longer under their control - toxic masc

Dactylic metre - stop/start rythm - wants to stop time and reverse so that he doesnt have to face misery - to go back to happy days

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When We Two Parted:

Key themes & comparison poems

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grief, letting go, loss

  • winter swans - loss
  • neutral tones - loss/grief
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Loves Philosophy:

  • 5 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
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  • “mountains kiss high heaven”
  • “fountains mingle w/the river”
  • “sunlight clasps”
  • “moonbeams kiss”
  • “and”

1) “mountains” - implies isolation, lack of reciprocation, symbol for obstacle for physical unity - perhaps shows how entitled & superior he feels as a man to get that kiss - comment on the sexual urge of men (shameless)
“kiss” - purely physical attraction - emphasies how entitled he feels
“high heaven” - god ordained - natural - obligation - hightened desparation becoz of other-wordly ref. - breathless - idea of gravity&connection hence hightening isolation

2) water imagery highlights natural flow - how their untity is natural like the flow of water - its inevitability BUT “fountain” movement of water = cyclical - lack of reciprocation

3) “sunlight”/”moonbeams” - idea that sun/moon cant exist w/o eachother - co-existence is natural, necessary - celestial imagery physically above waterbodies - hightened desparation

4) polysyndetic list - evergrowing desparation

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Loves Philosophy:

Context

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water - many ancient cultures believed we came from and will return to our waters - emphaises natural existence of unity

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Loves Philosophy:

Structure

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ABAB - regularity - static - forever unreciprocated

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Loves Philosphy:

Key themes and comparison poems

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unrequited love, obsession, nature

When we Two parted - all themes

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Porphyrias Lover:

  • 5 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
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“glided”
“smooth white shoulder bare”
“porhyria worshipped me”
“only this time, my shoulder bore her”
“Yet God has not said a word!”

1) connotations of ghost - inevitable death? forshadowing - also angelic status

2) purely physical - society’s objectification of women - wants keepsake of their love like property - patriarchy - proxy of societal views of how women should be punsihed for illicit acts

3) implies he is god, she is his servant - subverting dynamic to ‘norm’ - almost deragatory - toxic masc.

4) cyclical BUT dynamic has been restored - implies how sexism will always be prevalent no matter womens outcry - instead of porphriya baring her shoulder and “stooping” to a lower rank, man has stooped to “servants” level as he is her god

5) implies that god = social constructs - ‘yet’ is him convicning hmself that the deed is not that bad - alt. that god approves of woman being punsihed for opposing gender dynamic and illicit sex

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Porphyrias Lover:
Context

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Initially called ‘Madhouse Cells’ - comment on social prejudice which leads to madness - insanity is not individual - it is collective of mens views

Perhaps attack on status quo - a patriarchy leads to men believeing they can get away w/anything involving women

Porphyria latin - hallucinatory disease - collective delusion of men in patriarchy - critiscises dogma

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Porphyrias Lover:

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ABAB - regular at first, breaksdown slowly to show disentigration of sanity

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Porphyrias Lover:

Key themes & comparison poems

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Obsession, social class, sexual

Loves Philosphy - sexual, mens entitlement
Farmers Bride - obsession, sexual

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Sonnet 29:

  • 4 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
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  • “wild vines, about a tree”
  • “burst, shattered everywhere!”
  • “set thy trunk all bare”
  • “i do not think of thee”

1) “wild vines” - her thoughts are unruly, overwhelming - vines not only cause structural damage but also hide it on a tree - damaging tree(relationship) - hide implies she is blinded by obsession so she doesnt see him as he truly is - too possesive, perhaps insecure - attack on men doing what they want and women trying to please them - suffocating - feels she has to hover becoz of insecurity

2) implies an orgasm - physical yearning - plosives = forceful tone - insecurity = ticking time bomb - climax implies he takes over her whole existence - she feels at pinaccle of life w/him

3) inclining to tempt him w/sex - women conditioned to believe only sex is valid form of love - insecure of him leaving her - cause is patriarchal objectification

4) cyclical - mens attitude will remain static - no progression - relationship will be damaged by insecurity and obsession

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Sonnet 29:

Context

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parents disapproved of marriage - hence forbidden - insecurtity is inevitable as he may decide to end relationship due to complications

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Sonnet 29:

Structure

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Iambic pent - juxta.p w/ constrained structure vs uncontrolled thoughts

sonnet format - typically for love poems - sense of inevitablilty in love

nature semantic - inevitability of love

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Sonnet 29:

Key themes & comparison poems

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obsession, patriarchy, toxic love

farmers bride - obsession, patriachy
loves philosphy - obession, patriacry
porphrias lover - all

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Neutral Tones:

  • 3 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
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“greyish leaves”
“white sun, as thought chidden of God”
“god curst sun”

1) implies decaying of all love and optimism - cant “undecay” - foreshadowing of pessimistic future - bitter - seasons, the gruelling winter - perhaps narrartor has view that women are simply liabilities as trees let go of leaves since they arent unnecessary - inevitable like seasons passing

2) sun drained of all warmth - even sun is effected - hatred is all consuming - god subverts from benevolent to wrathful and tyrannical - perhaps god is wrathful to women who dominate and take the lead OR he feels the whole world is against him

3) cyclical hatred - wrathful - signifies how men feel entitled to leave women not other way round - toxic masc.

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Neutral Tones:

Context

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poet and partner had broken off relationship - feels bitter

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Neutral Tones:

Structure

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ABBA - regular - static - undeveloping hate

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Neutral Tones:

Key themes & comparison poems

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pessimism, loss, patriarchy

Winter swans - loss/reconciliation
Porphyrias lover - patriacrhy
When we two parted - loss, pessimissm

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Letters From Yorkshire:

  • 5 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
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“blank screens”
“heartful of headlines”
“his knuckles singing”
“our souls tap..across icy miles”
“watching the same news”

1) life means nothing w/o him - frozen in longing for his company, montonous
2) constant hustle of urban life, how there is no relief, her disaccociated state of mind (link this to grade 5 - in a trance, daydreaming)
3) juxta.p between city/country life to show physical rift - despite this they still incline to eachother - typically we lose interest in such unrelatable people BUT ‘soul’ful connection maintains this fondness - alt. grade 9: kinesthetic imagery shows how shes infatuated w/his life, wants to replicate every single detail - sees rural lifestyle as crux to pure happiness
4) ‘our’ - unity - despite long distance
‘icy’ - despite this, still warm and thawed (not neglected) - like how warm hug thaws outer cold
‘souls’ - spirtual connection - inseparable- ‘tap’ conveys how ice thaws at the mere tap of their love - very immovable, permanent - alt. ‘icy’ perhaps implies her resentment at their dichotomy
5) implies competition becoz theyre finally on par, diminishing his life to be not as idillic, same as her monotonous urban life - alt. implies she finally connects w/him despite distance

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Letters From Yorkshire:

Context

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Some say its father-daughter realtionship and others say its platonic

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Letters From Yorkshire:

Structure

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free verse - captures inclination to talk, free from the heart

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Letters From Yorkshire:

Key themes & comparison poems

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strong love, longing, distance, admiration

Follower - all

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Farmers Bride:

  • 6 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
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“like a mouse”
“her eyes beseech”
“sweet as the first wild violets”
“magpies”
“the short days shorten”
“Ive hardly heard her speak”

1) further diminished identity - dicassosiated from her human self - doesnt feel like human - treated as animal - scurries, hides in shadows - feels the need to hide from him, danger, threat

2) visceral reaction - lack of speech - patriarchy, no voice - remeniscent of cornered animal

3) harvest season - ready to reap - “wild” further attributes animal characteristics - juxtap. w/her restricted behaviour around him - feels distrubed, trapped by farmer - patriarchy - clearly obvious BUT he wants to consumate - entitlement of men

4) known to steal precious things - poet conveys women are more than just objects BUT men are like magpies - patriarchal indoctrination

5) rep of “short” - coming of gurelling, bitter winter, lack of warmth/compassion - receding patience like days - poet implies a man is driven by sexual urge - uncontrolable beasts - exploitation inevitable in patriarchal society

6) “Ive” implies sense of entitlement - he feels irritated since she doesnt do what he wants

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Farmers Bride:

Context

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patriarchy: the entitlement and exploitation that comes with it

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Farmers Bride:

Structure

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ABAB rhyme scheme - sense of regularity, inevitability
alt: continuity in patriarchal views

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Farmers Bride:

Key themes & comparison poems

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obsession, patriarchy, unrequited, sex

Porphyrias lover - all
Sonnet 29 - obsession, sex, patriarchy

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Walking Away:

  • 5 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
A

“leaves just turning”
“like a sattelite wrenched from its orbit”
“winged seed loosened from its parent stem”
“Ordeals…fire ones irresolute clay”
“love is proved in letting go”

1) seasonal dynamic - inevitable transition - natural - stuck in the memory of son - love and power of memory is coneveyed - how much it hurts him to let go

2) galactical imagery - wants reality of parenthood like child in fixed orbit - but reality is bird leaving nest - “wrenched” gory imagery - painful

3) natural - inevitable, necessary - acceptance of letting go - always be one in the same

4) ref to Adam made of clay - God’s plan - undertands he has to go thru ordeals to be shaped into a good person - navigating parental protectiveness

5) he imagines son letting go of father which proves his love for the father - contradictory

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Walking Away:

Context

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was a pastor - believes in gods plan
absent father via affairs - guilt, bittersweet, distance

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Walking Away:

Structure

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ABACA rhyme scheme - he feels displaced as parent - sole job was to look after son but now its coming to an end
complicated dynamic between son/father OR accepting/rejection of letting go - raw feelings

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Walking Away:

Key themes & comparison poems

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parental love, loss, letting go, pain

Mother, Any Distance - all

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Eden Rock:

  • 5 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
A

“They….me”
“in the same suit”
“the sky whitens as if lit by 3 suns”
“My mother shades her eyes”
“Lessurey, they beckon”

1) separation between they..me - foreshadows them not reconciling distance in afterlife - hell? - “rock” in title empahsies how it is an obstruction - cemented, immovable

2) memory like “rock” - stagnant, umprogressive - implies longing, perhaps torturous - emphaises eternity of Eden BUT eternitity of endless longing which is a torturing contination of itself - remeniscent of fathers prime - looks up to him, when things used to be good

3) sun drained of warmth - ref to trinity - harsh lighting - reinforces hell connotations - mother “shades her eyes” - could be blissfull sunny day BUT more apparent: as if lowering her gaze from hellish person - cant bear the separation

4) enjambment - flows like water - cyclical like waterflow - torturous - predicatble - replayed constantly as if he doesnt want time to continue as he knows the destination

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Eden Rock:

Context

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perhaps about own exp

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Eden Rock:

Structure

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simple childlike language - shows childlike attachemnt to parents
disjointed rhyme shceme - uncertain, life is barrier of separation, creates ominous forboding tone - links to Adam and Eve - inevitable punishment

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Eden Rock:

Key themes & comparison poems

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separation, longing

Before you were mine - all
Follower - longing

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Follower:

  • 4 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
A

“in his broad shadow”
“narrowed and angled”
“headrig”
“and will not go away”
“stumbling”

1) constantly struggling to keep in his stead - disappointed/resentment towards himself - overshadowed - perhaps own resentment has been projected to father in later life - “broad” implies physically disadvataged compared to father

2) highlights expertise - introspective - admiring

3) fathers ambition essentially has become his own ambition - shows childkike perception & idealistic image of him - “plough” = simplistic lang compared to “headrig” - dichotomy between skillsets - implies that disenchantment is inevitable

4) shows physical sense of disappointment of son - now father stuggles to walk in stead of son and now he has become a “nuisance” - implies that people are not as they seem - inevitabalises the disillusion of the naive age

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Follower:

Context

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poet became poet instead of farmer like all his other siblings - felt isolated and bitter - black sheep

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Follower:

Structure

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alternate rhyme scheme - highlights uncertainty you should feel towards parents in idelaising them

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Follower:

Key themes & comparison poems

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bitterness, admiring, ageing relationships

Climbig my grandfather - admiration
Neutral Tones - ageing, bitterness
Eden Rock - admiring, ageing

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Mother, Any Distance:

  • 3 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
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“spool of tape”
“Anchor.Kite.”
“prairies of the floors”
“to fall or fly”
“pinch”

1) remeniscent of umbilical chord - letting go is unnatural - painful as giving birth - recovery period = lengthy - inevitable attachement like umbilical OR sticky tape

2) anchor implies mother keeps boat stable & secure BUT boat is unable to drift and set sail as it should - kite implies a false sense of freedom BUT string keeps it from being punctured by tree - justifies maternal attachement - short sent implies urgency to keep him as long as possible under her wing

3) “prairie” implies vast openess - uncertainty which she wants to protect son from - “floor” diminshes that overprotectiveness by implying that its merely a floor - mother is trying her best to set her son free

4) bird leaving nest - uncertain, justifies maternal protectiveness - inveitability - to allow son to flourish in independance - natural

5) violent imagery - clinginess - painful for her

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Mother, Any Distance:

Context

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part of Book of Matches - anthology exploring brevity of life yet its moments brief nature
flame symbolises potential of son - yet touching flame is painful but mother has to light up his prospects
explores universal moments

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Mother, Any Distance:

Structure

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free verse - uncertainty, reluctance but signifies the sons inveitable desires

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Mother, Any Distance:

Key themes & comparison poems

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attachement, letting go, strong relarionships

Follower - strong rel
Walking away - all

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Before You were mine:

  • 4 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
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  • ‘Marilyn.’
  • ‘those high-heeled red shoes, relics’
  • ‘stamping stars from the wrong pavement’
  • ‘I’,’you’

1) stereotypical sex icon, romantascised youth of women, carefree, glamour of life - full stop reflects poets regret, shes essentially seized that youth from her, bygone era - Marilyn known to commit suicide so it could be the foreshadowing of her depression once kid was born, lack of freedom - in 90s, marilyn was an icon of freedom

2) ‘red’ - youth, enjoyment, playfulness, you flirt when single and unbound - ‘relics’ = bygone era, history, somehting only to look back on - emphaises marilyn suicide- red also captures parental sacrifices - gory imagery

3) ‘wrong pavement’ instead of ballroom she has to sacrifice for her child, slightly pathetic, forced enjoyment, everythigns for the sake of her child now, ‘stars, - glimpse of what she used to be

4) enjambment shows deliberate separation, child out of guilt keeps a distance to free her mother from sacrifice

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Before You were mine:

Context

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Mother had died - navigating her grief, regrets

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Before You were mine:

Structure

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regular stanzas juxtaposed by free verse - shows dichotomy of her mundane motherhood life vs what she used to be - shows mothers longing to go back is still there

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Before you were mine:

Key themes & comparison poems

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regret, childhood, aging, sacrifice, admiration

Follower - aging, childhood, admiring, regret

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Winter Swans:

  • 4 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
A

-“the clouds had given their all”
- “ Porcelain”
- “icebergs of white feather..righting in rough weather”
- “our hands swum the distance between us”

1) personification, shows how theyve suffered in distance

2)delicate clay at first but then durable - love has to go through these difficulties to transform

3) ref to titanic - how love is instead iceberg, permanent, immovabe, unconquerable, solidified - ‘white’ captures purity of love and how its recovery is inevitable by Gods plan - ‘righting’ captures how it was inevitble - ‘rough’ diminishes weather in comparison to grandurity of love

4) swans had showed them the ideal form of love, pure, inveitbale, dynamic relationship

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Winter Swans:

Context

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Aristotelian elements - sense of balance - inevitable righting
Winter - predecessor to spring - necessary for regeneration - inevitability of reconcilication like seasons
Swans - white, purity of love, mate for life - inevitable

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Winter Swans:

Structure

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free verse - conveys how despite the uncertainty, love had reconciled
also how their love is consantly fresh - like seasons

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Winter Swans:

Key themes & comparison poems

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reconcilitation, loss, nature

Neutral Tones - loss, nature

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Singh Song:

  • 5 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
A

“vee share”
“my bride”
“each night”
“in di worst indian shop”
“vee stare past”

1) unity - forever intertwined

2) almost like a title - like the 1st day, falls in love w/her again and again - most passionate time = newlyweds - sense of possesion and great pride

3) rep implies a sense of neverending romance - that it is strong enough to overcome culture clashes and white prejudice and scrutiny - alt= subverts prejudice that indians love mundanity and security into the securty of their love for eachother

4) highlights white prejudice - background noise - not as significant compared to forefront of their love

5) metaphorically staring past prejudices as a way to mute them and overcome them - rendering them insignificant

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Singh Song:

Context

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inspo from immigrant parents who survived w/a factory job

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Singh Song:

Structure

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colliqual - sense of intimacy and raw emotion & pride w/immigrant bacvkground to show prejudice doesnt bother him
rhyme breaks down to free verse - how his heart breaks into a flow as he falls more in love w/her

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Singh Song:

Key themes & comparison poems

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obsession

Sonnet 29 - obsession

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Climbing My Grandfather:

  • 5 key quotes
  • Analysis of said quotes
  • Alternative Interpretations
A

“dusty and cracked”
“glassy ridge of a scar”
“traverse along his belt”
“gasping for breath”
“knowing the slow pulse of his good heart”

1) abandoned - distant - childlike perception - guilty at the grandfathers obsolete role in childs life, sense of obligation - remeniscnet of revisiting something forgotten - alot of stories to tell, lot to discover

2) “glassy” captures dangerous territory, matter of life or death in metaphorical mountain - “Ridge”, he knows to keep his distance - “scar” could captrue how a parents duty is to suffer pain for children and make sacrifices - Waterhouse was an environmentalist - shows how we do not know true depths of nature - we cannot overstep its boundaries in fear of destrcutions - almost a warning

3) superficial, lack of personality desc - theyre comfortable in childlike, superficial relation - for a child to fall from the belt is merely a humorous accident - not dangerous

4) visceral response - difficult, demanding task - sense of accomplishment - implies that he hasnt explored all of the mountain but accepts that adn feels he does not need to

5) mountain - unchanging hence, secure - immovable - “heart” suggests sense of connection, free w/eachother (free verse)

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Climbing My grandfather:

Context

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mountain - immovable, permanent, safe(constant), deity - admiration - childlike perception
universal expereince of getting to know someone

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Climbing My grandfather:

Structure

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one long stanza - perhaps no break from “climbing mountain” - hence difficult ordeal
free verse - although no obligation to know him - he takes his time to do so as he does feel a sense of obligation - uncertain, doesnt know how to navigate, perhaps childlike uncertainty

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Climbing My grandfather:

Key themes & comparison poems

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admiration, strong relationships, universal exp

Follower - admiration
Mother any distance - strong relationships, universal exp

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