poems Flashcards
Porphyria’s Lover is a …
Porphyria’s Lover is a dramatic monologue
Key structural techniques used in Porphyria’s Lover:
___________
This could be a subtle indication at the true instability of the narrator.
Dramatic monologue
The poem is delivered in one long stanza, and we are only given the ______ speech of our murderous narrator.
Key structural techniques used in Porphyria’s Lover:
Enjambment
This could be a subtle indication at the true instability of the narrator.
Dramatic monologue
The poem is delivered in one long stanza, and we are only given the direct speech of our murderous narrator.
Change in Porphyria
Beginning - _______
She is active as she ‘glid[es]’ in, starts the fire and ‘put[s]’ her lovers arm around her
Browning highlights her actions to show that she clearly was an ______ participant in the relationship
End - dead
She is ‘propped’ up, and her supposed ‘utmost will’ and ‘_____________’ have been fulfilled
The contrast draws our attention to the narrator’s murderous crime
Change in Porphyria
Beginning - control
She is active as she ‘glid[es]’ in, starts the fire and ‘put[s]’ her lovers arm around her
Browning highlights her actions to show that she clearly was an active participant in the relationship
End - dead
She is ‘propped’ up, and her supposed ‘utmost will’ and ‘darling one wish’ have been fulfilled
The contrast draws our attention to the narrator’s murderous crime
quotes showing how the narrator talks about Porphyria when she is dead:
1
‘Utmost ____’
2
‘Darling one ____’
how the narrator talks about Porphyria when she is dead:
1
‘Utmost will’
2
‘Darling one wish’
Complete the quotes linked to violence and possession:
‘____________’
This shows how the narrator’s desire for Porphyria causes him almost physical pain.
‘_____________’
This quote shows the tortured nature of the narrator’s love. It is also ironic given that he has physically stopped Porphyria’s heart.
The narrator desired her to belong to him ‘________’
This indicates the extent of his obsession with her and is made more horrible by the fact that she is now dead.
Complete the quotes linked to violence and possession:
‘Burning kiss’
This shows how the narrator’s desire for Porphyria causes him almost physical pain.
‘Heart fit to break’
This quote shows the tortured nature of the narrator’s love. It is also ironic given that he has physically stopped Porphyria’s heart.
The narrator desired her to belong to him ‘for ever’
This indicates the extent of his obsession with her and is made more horrible by the fact that she is now dead.
Complete the quotes relating to sin:
‘_____________’
Hints at our narrator’s disgust with the living Porphyria’s potential for sin and contamination.
‘__________________’
This suggests that the narrator believes that God has condoned what he has done, or that he has gotten away with his crime.
Complete the quotes relating to sin:
‘Soiled gloves’
Hints at our narrator’s disgust with the living Porphyria’s potential for sin and contamination.
‘God has not said a word’
This suggests that the narrator believes that God has condoned what he has done, or that he has gotten away with his crime.
Complete these examples of pathetic fallacy:
1
‘Sullen ______’
2
‘Its worst to ____ the lake’
Complete these examples of pathetic fallacy:
1
‘Sullen wind’
2
‘Its worst to vex the lake’
‘Murmuring how she loved [him]’
Here even whilst Porphyria is alive our narrator is presenting her in a _________ and silent way – just the way he prefers her to be
‘Murmuring how she loved [him]’
Here even whilst Porphyria is alive our narrator is presenting her in a muffled and silent way – just the way he prefers her to be
Poems to compare and contrast with Porphyria’s Lover
The Farmer’s Bride
________ narrator
Obsessive love
Poems to compare and contrast with Porphyria’s Lover
The Farmer’s Bride
Unstable narrator
Obsessive love
Influence of the Romantic Movement on Love’s Philosophy:
____
Sets this up as a belief system that guides the universe.
______________
The narrator uses these to convince his lover to kiss him.
______________
Puts love on a pedestal.
Influence of the Romantic Movement on Love’s Philosophy:
Love
Sets this up as a belief system that guides the universe.
Logical arguments
The narrator uses these to convince his lover to kiss him.
Religious imagery
Puts love on a pedestal.
Early Stages of Love in love’s philosophy
Hyperbolic language
hyperbolic (exaggerative) language shows the excitement of the prospect of this new relationship.
Structure and Form in Love’s Philosophy:
Structure and Form in Love’s Philosophy:
ABAB rhyme scheme
ends with a rhetorical question
short and simplistic structure
Rhyme in Love’s Philosophy
ABAB rhyme scheme
This rhyme scheme is _________ and gives the poem a sweet and ____ rhythm.
Two half-rhymes
There are two in each stanza, which are jarring in the otherwise clear rhyme scheme. These out of place rhymes seem to _______ the two lover’s unnatural separation.
Rhyme in Love’s Philosophy
ABAB rhyme scheme
This rhyme scheme is simplistic and gives the poem a sweet and soft rhythm.
Two half-rhymes
There are two in each stanza, which are jarring in the otherwise clear rhyme scheme. These out of place rhymes seem to embody the two lover’s unnatural separation.
quotes suggests it would be a sin for his lover not to kiss him in loves philosophy?
quotes suggests it would be a sin for his lover not to kiss him in loves philosophy?
no sister-flower would be forgiven if it disdain’d its brother
In Love’s Philosophy, we see love as the ‘sweet emotion’ that mixes in the ‘winds of Heaven’. According to ‘__________’, nothing is ‘single’.
In Love’s Philosophy, we see love as the ‘sweet emotion’ that mixes in the ‘winds of Heaven’. According to ‘law divine’, nothing is ‘single’.
Shelley creates a vast sense of scale in Love’s Philosophy by creating an expansion of size. The expansion goes:
Shelley creates a vast sense of scale in Love’s Philosophy by creating an expansion of size. The expansion goes:
fountain, river, ocean to heavens
Key quotes and possible interpretations from Love’s Philosophy:
‘And sunlight _____ the earth / And the moonbeams ____ the sea-‘
Here, Shelley personifies the ‘sunlight’, ‘moonbeams’, ‘earth’ and the ‘sea’ as lovers to try and present a physical union with his lover as the next ______ and natural step.
‘The winds of Heaven mix forever / With a sweet ______’
This is an example of his use of religious imagery. The narrator is trying to elevate (raise) the status of his love and to present his intentions as ____.
‘What is all this ________________ / If thou kiss not me?’
Manipulative voice
Here, the narrator tries to show that his intentions are ‘sweet’, so she ought to give in.
Key quotes and possible interpretations from Love’s Philosophy:
‘And sunlight clasps the earth / And the moonbeams kiss the sea-‘
Here, Shelley personifies the ‘sunlight’, ‘moonbeams’, ‘earth’ and the ‘sea’ as lovers to try and present a physical union with his lover as the next logical and natural step.
‘The winds of Heaven mix forever / With a sweet emotion’
This is an example of his use of religious imagery. The narrator is trying to elevate (raise) the status of his love and to present his intentions as pure.
‘What is all this sweet work worth / If thou kiss not me?’
Here, the narrator tries to show that his intentions are ‘sweet’, so she ought to give in.
What effect does the indenting of the final line of each stanza have on the poem Neutral Tones?
What effect does the indenting of the final line of each stanza have on the poem Neutral Tones?
slows the pace
Features of Neutral Tones:
1 \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ setting 2 Depicts the stagnation (standing still) of a failed relationship 3 \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ imagery used throughout
Features of Neutral Tones:
1 Winter setting 2 Depicts the stagnation (standing still) of a failed relationship 3 Ominous imagery used throughout
Summary of Neutral Tones
Ominous imagery
Signals bitter ________ the narrator feels at the end of the poem
Signals the end of their ________
Weather and landscape
Reflect the ___________ of their relationship and bitnerness between them
Plot
Follows two lovers coming to the end of their relationship as they stand next to a pond in winter
Summary of Neutral Tones
Ominous imagery
Signals bitter mourning the narrator feels at the end of the poem
Signals the end of their connection
Weather and landscape
Reflect the stagnation of their relationship and bitnerness between them
Plot
Follows two lovers coming to the end of their relationship as they stand next to a pond in winter
an example of an oxymoron in Neutral Tones
an example of an oxymoron in Neutral Tones
alive enough to have strength to die
Techniques Hardy uses to show the lifelessness of the relationship:
Techniques Hardy uses to show the lifelessness of the relationship:
winter landscape
dull colour scheme
repetition of the colour grey
Quotes from Neutral Tones showing alliteration and assonance:
Quotes from Neutral Tones showing alliteration and assonance:
“keen lessons that love decieves” - assonance adds to the bitter tone of the narrator.
“wrings with wrong” - alliteration helps to create a bitter, sneering tone and reflects the narrator’s anger and frustration.
Incompatibility of the lovers in neutral tones
Oxymoron
- ‘Alive enough to…’
- Sun is ‘_____’
- Lover’s ______ is a dead ‘thing’ and an ‘ominous’ sign
Pronoun
- __________ pronoun ‘we’ is only used in the beginning of the poem, shows how the lovers drift apart
- ‘Us’ and ‘our’ are only used to refer their love fading away even more
Incompatibility of the lovers neutral tones
Oxymoron
- ‘Alive enough to have strength to die’
- Sun is ‘white’
- Lover’s smile is a dead ‘thing’ and an ‘ominous’ sign
Pronoun
- Collective pronoun ‘we’ is only used in the beginning of the poem, shows how the lovers drift apart
- ‘Us’ and ‘our’ are only used to refer their love fading away even more
Lifelessness of the Relationship in Neutral Tones
Pathetic fallacy
The winter setting reflects the freezing of the former lovers’ ________ and allows Hardy to use a dull colour scheme
Reflects _____ lifelessness of relationship
Repetition of colour ‘gray’
Emphasises the lack of ________ in the landscape and their relationship
Lifelessness of the Relationship in Neutral Tones
Pathetic fallacy
The winter setting reflects the freezing of the former lovers’ feelings and allows Hardy to use a dull colour scheme
Reflects bleak lifelessness of relationship
Repetition of colour ‘gray’
Emphasises the lack of vitality in the landscape and their relationship
neutral tones
‘Alive enough to have strength to die’ (hardy)
The conflict between the idea of being alive and that of death shows how the lovers have drifted _____.
neutral tones
‘Alive enough to have strength to die’
The conflict between the idea of being alive and that of death shows how the lovers have drifted apart.
Smile - a ‘dead thing’ (hardy)
He describes his lover’s smile as a dead ‘thing’ and an ‘_______’ sign.
Smile - a ‘dead thing’
He describes his lover’s smile as a dead ‘thing’ and an ‘ominous’ sign.
Which techniques are used in each of these key quotes from Neutral Tones?
___________
‘The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing’.
shows the _______________ of the lovers.
____________________
‘Keen lessons that love deceives’.‘Keen lessons that love deceives / And wring with wrong, have shaped to me Your face’
creates a bitter __________ tone, reflecting the narrator’s bitterness towards his past relationship.
Which techniques are used in each of these key quotes from Neutral Tones?
Oxymoron
‘The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing’.
shows the incompatibility of the lovers.
Assonance and alliteration
‘Keen lessons that love deceives’.‘Keen lessons that love deceives / And wring with wrong, have shaped to me Your face’
creates a bitter sneering tone, reflecting the narrator’s bitterness towards his past relationship.
Complete these key quotes from Neutral Tones:
1
‘The smile on your mouth was the ________ thing’
2
‘______ lessons that love deceives’
3
‘And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me / Your ____’
Complete these key quotes from Neutral Tones:
1
‘The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing’
2
‘Keen lessons that love deceives’
3
‘And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me / Your face’
Features of the structure and form of The Farmer’s Bride:
1 Dramatic \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 2 No rhyme \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ 3 Iambic \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
Features of the structure and form of The Farmer’s Bride:
1 Dramatic monologue 2 No rhyme scheme 3 Iambic tetrameter
Three themes explored in The Farmer’s Bride:
Three themes explored in The Farmer’s Bride:
1 Disappointment 2 Loneliness 3 Longing for a deeper emotional connection
Complete these quotes using natural imagery or language of animals in The Farmer’s Bride:
1
‘Shy as a _______, _____ as he’
2
‘Straight and slight as a young _____ tree’
Complete these quotes using natural imagery or language of animals in The Farmer’s Bride:
1
‘Shy as a leveret, swift as he’
2
‘Straight and slight as a young larch tree’
How does the farmer convey his emotions and feelings?
How does the farmer convey his emotions and feelings?
natural imagery
language of animals
Key Quotes From The Farmer’s Bride
‘Her smile went out, and ‘twasn’t a woman – more like …’
Use of dialect gives sense of farmer’s voice
‘Shy as a leveret, swift as he, / Straight and slight as a young larch tree’
Pair of similes suggests his bride is almost not human
The narrator laments that he never ‘heard her at all’
Reminds us of the silence of the bride both in the poem and in the marriage
Key Quotes From The Farmer’s Bride
‘Her smile went out, and ‘twasn’t a woman – more like a little frightened fay’
Use of dialect gives sense of farmer’s voice
‘Shy as a leveret, swift as he, / Straight and slight as a young larch tree’
Pair of similes suggests his bride is almost not human
The narrator laments that he never ‘heard her at all’
Reminds us of the silence of the bride both in the poem and in the _________
Summary of Walking Away
Metaphor
Begins looking back on his memories of his son’s first game of football
Fixed moment in the past
Metaphor for Lewis’ son growing up and moving away from him
Cosmic and natural imagery
Conveys the _________ sense of loss a parent feels as their child grows up
Summary of Walking Away
Metaphor
Begins looking back on his memories of his son’s first game of football
Fixed moment in the past
Metaphor for Lewis’ son growing up and moving away from him
Cosmic and natural imagery
Conveys the poignant sense of loss a parent feels as their child grows up
Mimicking real speech in Walking Away
Mimicking real speech in Walking Away
use of enjambments and caesuras
use of words such as ‘perhaps’ and ‘roughly’
use of dashes
Natural imagery in Walking Away
Simile
‘Like a winged seed _______________________’
Embodies the sense of loss Lewis feels but also the inevitability of the process of growing up
Pathetic fallacy
‘______________’
Suggests transition of the season
Reflects the state of transition the father is witnessing in his son
Natural imagery in Walking Away
Simile
‘Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’
Embodies the sense of loss Lewis feels but also the inevitability of the process of growing up
Pathetic fallacy
‘Leaves are turning’
Suggests transition of the season
Reflects the state of transition the father is witnessing in his son
Abrupt verbs in Walking Away emphasising seperation:
Abrupt verbs in Walking Away
‘wrenched’
‘gnaws’
‘scorching’
Suggest the father is struggling to let go of his son, but knows he must to let him grow up
Key Quotes from Walking Away
‘How _________ begins with a walking away / And Love is proved in the letting go’
Final line
Narrator has realised that ‘letting go’ of his son is a part of his parental love
‘That hesitant figure, ________ away / Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’
Powerful simile
Embodies the sense of loss Lewis feels but also the inevitability of the process of growing up
Key Quotes from Walking Away
‘How selfhood begins with a walking away / And Love is proved in the letting go’
Final line
Narrator has realised that ‘letting go’ of his son is a part of his parental love
‘That hesitant figure, eddying away / Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem’
Powerful simile
Embodies the sense of loss Lewis feels but also the inevitability of the process of growing up
Memory in Eden Rock
Narrator’s parents
His father is wearing ‘___________’ and his mother is using ‘__________________’
Objects are familiar, but there is a sense that the memory is artificial
Clear sense that the narrator is remembering his parents as they were, and items from his past
Also a sense that they are in a setting that he has never been before
Unease
Brought up in Cornwall
Poem is set in an imaginary location called Eden Rock
Has implications of a biblical Eden, a perfected paradise
Narrator says that his parents are ‘___________ [him]’ but he is not with them
The setting of Eden Rock is an imaginary one
Memory in Eden Rock
Narrator’s parents
His father is wearing ‘the same suit’ and his mother is using ‘the same three plates’
Objects are familiar, but there is a sense that the memory is artificial
Clear sense that the narrator is remembering his parents as they were, and items from his past
Also a sense that they are in a setting that he has never been before
Unease
Brought up in Cornwall
Poem is set in an imaginary location called Eden Rock
Has implications of a biblical Eden, a perfected paradise
Narrator says that his parents are ‘waiting for [him]’ but he is not with them
The setting of Eden Rock is an imaginary one
Key Quotes in Eden Rock
‘I had not thought that …’
This is the final line of the poem. It suggests that the narrator may be imagining joining his parents in the afterlife.
‘____________ as if lit by three suns’
The light imagery contrasts with ordinary images of the picnic, and gives the poem a sense of the ________.
Key Quotes in Eden Rock
‘I had not thought that …’
This is the final line of the poem. It suggests that the narrator may be imagining joining his parents in the afterlife.
Breaks with the regularity of the structure of five stanzas, each of four lines
‘The sky whitens as if lit by three suns’
The light imagery contrasts with ordinary images of the picnic, and gives the poem a sense of the surreal.
Possessive language in Before You Were Mine
Possessive language in Before You Were Mine
her cries were ‘possessive’
‘before you were mine’
‘even then i wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello
Before You Were Mine
_________ of motherhood is evident in the quote
Cries = ‘possessive’
Before You Were Mine
Burden of motherhood is evident in the quote
Cries = ‘possessive’
Exciting and glamorous language describing the mother in Before You Were Mine:
1 ‘Sparkle and \_\_\_\_\_’ 2 ‘Stamping \_\_\_\_\_’ 3 ‘High-heeled red \_\_\_\_’ 4 ‘Your \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ dress blows, round your legs. Marilyn.'
Exciting and glamorous language describing the mother in Before You Were Mine:
1 ‘Sparkle and waltz’ 2 ‘Stamping stars’ 3 ‘High-heeled red shoes’ 4 ‘Your polka-dot dress blows, Marilyn'
Vivid, sensory imagery - Before You Were Mine
Vivid, sensory imagery - Before You Were Mine
‘clatters’
‘shriek’
‘clear as scent’
The quote ‘__________________________’ from Before You Were Mine implies that Duffy is somehow transported in time to see her mother as she was.
This is Duffy’s vision of her mother’s glamorous past as she hopes it might have been.
The quote ‘I knew you would dance like that’ from Before You Were Mine implies that Duffy is somehow transported in time to see her mother as she was.
This is Duffy’s vision of her mother’s glamorous past as she hopes it might have been.
Key Quotes from Before You Were Mine
‘The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one eh?’
In this poem, the poet suggests that motherhood can be a _______, especially compared to the excitement of life before the ‘loud, possessive yell’ of a child takes over.
‘That glamorous love lasts / where you _______ and waltz and laugh before you were mine.’
This shows the glamour of her mother’s life as imagined by the narrator, and her desire to possess even the memories of the past ‘before you were mine’.
Key Quotes from Before You Were Mine
‘The decade ahead of my loud, possessive yell was the best one eh?’
In this poem, the poet suggests that motherhood can be a burden, especially compared to the excitement of life before the ‘loud, possessive yell’ of a child takes over.
‘That glamorous love lasts / where you sparkle and waltz and laugh before you were mine.’
This shows the glamour of her mother’s life as imagined by the narrator, and her desire to possess even the memories of the past ‘before you were mine’.
Images of reconciliation in Winter Swans:
1 'They mate for \_\_\_\_’ 2 The pair are '\_\_\_\_\_\_ and apart' 3 The swans have ‘swum the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ between (them)’ 4 'The swans came and \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ us'
Images of reconciliation in Winter Swans:
1 'They mate for life’ 2 The pair are 'silent and apart' 3 The swans have ‘swum the distance between (them)’ 4 'The swans came and stopped us'
Key quotes in Winter Swans
’‘______________’ you said as they left’
Only instance of direct speech
Marks turning point
Swans = ‘like boats ____________________’
Simile
Foreshadows the reconciliation
Refers back to the stormy opening
Key quotes in Winter Swans
'’They mate for life’ you said as they left’
Only instance of direct speech
Marks turning point
Swans = ‘like boats righting in rough weather’
Simile
Foreshadows the reconciliation
Refers back to the stormy opening
Child’s perspective
Tenderness
Underneath the mountain image of his grandfather is ‘his ___________’
Simile describes his finger ‘like [warm] ____’
Epic proportions
Grandfather’s scars become a ‘glassy ______’
His head is a ‘______’
His mouth is a ‘____’
Child’s perspective
Tenderness
Underneath the mountain image of his grandfather is ‘his good heart’
Simile describes his finger ‘like [warm] ice’
Epic proportions
Grandfather’s scars become a ‘glassy ridge’
His head is a ‘summit’
His mouth is a ‘river’
Complete the key quotes from Climbing My Grandfather:
‘I decide to do it free, __________________’
This shows the technical language of rock climbing that appears through the poem.
‘To his thick hair (soft and white / at this altitude), reaching for the ________’
The narrator shows us that the memory comes from the perspective of a child (his grandfather’s head is a ‘summit’). He uses an extended metaphor of rock climbing throughout the poem.
Complete the key quotes from Climbing My Grandfather:
‘I decide to do it free, without a rope or net’
This shows the technical language of rock climbing that appears through the poem.
‘To his thick hair (soft and white / at this altitude), reaching for the summit’
The narrator shows us that the memory comes from the perspective of a child (his grandfather’s head is a ‘summit’). He uses an extended metaphor of rock climbing throughout the poem.
Complete these key quotes from Sonnet 29:
1
‘Renew thy _______________________’
2
‘My thoughts do _____________ / About thee, as wild vines, __________’
3
‘Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood / __________________________’
Complete these key quotes from Sonnet 29:
1
‘Renew thy presence as a strong tree should’
2
‘My thoughts do twine and bud / About thee, as wild vines, about a tree’
3
‘Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood / I will not have my thoughts instead of thee’
Complete these key quotes from Sonnet 29:
‘Renew thy presence; as a strong tree should’
As our narrator reaches this state of breaking free from her thoughts, the language of the poem becomes excited. Explosive verbs and exclamations exemplify the narrator’s ____________ desire for her lover.
Complete these key quotes from Sonnet 29:
‘Renew thy presence; as a strong tree should’
As our narrator reaches this state of breaking free from her thoughts, the language of the poem becomes excited. Explosive verbs and exclamations exemplify the narrator’s reinvigorated desire for her lover.
Complete these key quotes from Sonnet 29:
‘Yet, _______________, be it understood / I will not have my thoughts instead of thee’
This quote indicates her changing mind in the second quatrain as she is beginning to realise that she should not place her thoughts of her lover over his physical presence.
Complete these key quotes from Sonnet 29:
‘Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood / I will not have my thoughts instead of thee’
This quote indicates her changing mind in the second quatrain as she is beginning to realise that she should not place her thoughts of her lover over his physical presence.
Complete these key quotes from Sonnet 29:
‘My thoughts do twine and bud / About thee, as ….’
Browning builds up an extended metaphor of her feelings being vines, whilst her lover is a steadfast tree.
Complete these key quotes from Sonnet 29:
‘My thoughts do twine and bud / About thee, as wild vines about a tree’
Browning builds up an extended metaphor of her feelings being vines, whilst her lover is a steadfast tree.
Key Quotes from Letters From Yorkshire
‘You out there, in the cold, seeing the seasons / turning, me with my ________________’
Shows the contrast between their two worlds.
‘Still, it’s you who sends me _________________’
Shows how the letters make a connection between the two worlds.
Key Quotes from Letters From Yorkshire
‘You out there, in the cold, seeing the seasons / turning, me with my heartful of headlines’
Shows the contrast between their two worlds.
‘Still, it’s you who sends me word of that other world’
Shows how the letters make a connection between the two worlds.
Key quotes in Follower:
1
‘It is my father who _______________ / Behind me, and will ____________’
2
‘All I ever did was ________ / In his broad ________ round the farm’
Key quotes in Follower:
1
‘It is my father who keeps stumbling / Behind me, and will not go away’
2
‘All I ever did was follow / In his broad shadow round the farm’
Key Quotes in Mother, Any Distance
Key quotes
‘You at the zero-end, me with the _____ of tape’
Fixed position of the mother at the ‘zero-end’
Contrast between the security of childhood and the narrator’s feelings of instability as he approaches adulthood
‘The line still feeding out, unreeling _____________. Anchor. Kite’
Measuring tape ‘unreeling years’
Symbolises the passage of time as the son grows up
Key Quotes in Mother, Any Distance
Key quotes
‘You at the zero-end, me with the spool of tape’
Fixed position of the mother at the ‘zero-end’
Contrast between the security of childhood and the narrator’s feelings of instability as he approaches adulthood
‘The line still feeding out, unreeling years between us. Anchor. Kite’
Measuring tape ‘unreeling years’
Symbolises the passage of time as the son grows up
Complete these key quotes from Singh Song!:
‘My bride / she effing at my ___ / in all di _______ of Punjabi’
‘From di stool each night I say, / is _________ baby’.
Complete these key quotes from Singh Song!:
‘My bride / she effing at my mum / in all di colours of Punjabi’
‘From di stool each night I say, / is priceless baby’.
Complete the key quotes from When We Two Parted:
1
‘In secret we met - In silence _______’
2
‘When we two parted / In silence and tears…How should I greet thee? - / With _____________’
3
‘Long, long shall I rue thee / Too deeply to tell’
Complete the key quotes from When We Two Parted:
1
‘In secret we met - In silence I grieve’
The repetition of the ‘in silence and tears’ at both the beginning and the end of the poem gives it a circular structure, demonstrating that our narrator is unable to move on.
2
‘When we two parted / In silence and tears…How should I greet thee? - / With silence and tears’
demonstrates the narrator’s frustration at his inability to share with others the nature of his pain.
3
‘Long, long shall I rue thee / Too deeply to tell’
His use of the word ‘rue’ meaning to bitterly regret, suggests that he feels that the relationship was not worth the intense pain he feels now.
Similarities and Differences Between Porphyria’s Lover and When We Two Parted
Porphyria’s Lover
Similarities
Rigid form contrasting to narrator’s __________
Contrasts
Language around death
When We Two Parted = ______ imagery describing lover
Porphyria’s Lover = makes lover seem more alive
Similarities and Differences Between Porphyria’s Lover and When We Two Parted
Porphyria’s Lover
Similarities
Rigid form contrasting to narrator’s mental state
Contrasts
Language around death
When We Two Parted = death imagery describing lover
Porphyria’s Lover = makes lover seem more alive
