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Quotes for loves Philosophy

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‘The fountains mingle with the rivers’

‘The mountains clasp together’

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Quotes for when we two parted

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‘In silence and tears’
‘Half broken hearted to severe for years’
‘A knell in my ear’
‘Colder thy cheek,colder thy kiss’

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Quotes for the farmers bride

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‘She runned away like a hare on a field’
‘Turned the key upon her fast’
‘I chose a maid to be my bride’

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Quotes for winter swans

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‘Tipping in unison’
‘Skirted around the lake’
‘Our hands folded over one another settling like a pair of wings after flight’

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Quotes for walking away

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‘God alone could perfectly’

‘Like a satiellte wrenched from its orbit go drifting away’

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What is the structure in the poem when we two parted

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Alternate rhyme scheme - shows the distance between them

Enjambment - shows that the pain their feeling and the separation is on going

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What imagery is used in loves philosophy and what does it show

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Natural imagery is being used and it shows the poet is a romantic

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What is the context in farmers bride

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The women is being controlled and is in fear of the love and is trying to escape

It is a one sided relationship

The poet is a lesbian

Patriarchal society

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What is winter swans?

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An extended metaphor

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What is the lake used for in winter swans

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The lake symbolises the argument in the relationship and how the two lovers skirt around it

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What type of love is portrayed in the poem walking away

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Parental love

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What happens in the poem walking away

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The child goes into school the father feels sad and doesn’t want to let go

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Context of walking away

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Separation
Gaining responsibility
Becoming independent
Growing up

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When we two parted has a Symantic field of what?

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Grief

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Context of loves philosophy

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Wants to be loved but she won’t love him - one sided relationship

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What is the poem ‘sonnet 29 - I think of thee’

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An extended metaphor

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What two things show that the poem sonnet 29 is an extended metaphor?

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The tree and the vines

Tree:
Provider
Nature 
Strong
Masculine
Life
Tall
Vines:
Dominant
Engulf
Powerful 
Mingle/consume 
Strangle
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Context of sonnet 29

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The author had a secret relationship because her father wouldn’t let her love, she began her secret in 1845, she secretly married and flew to Italy

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Key themes in sonnet 29 are?

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Longing - desire
Intensity - obsession
Celebration - looking up

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Quotes for sonnet 29

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‘I think of thee!’
‘O, my palm tree!’
‘Set thy trunk all bare’

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What language devise does the poet in sonnet 29 use to exaggerate the longing she feels?

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