Poetry Flashcards by maximilian ayres | Brainscape

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When we two parted

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‘In silence and tears to sever for years’

Breakup

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Love’s philosophy

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‘The fountains mingle with the river’

Everything in nature comes in pairs

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Porphyria’s lover

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‘She shut the cold out and the storm’

Become an object- ‘her’ to ‘it’

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Sonnet 29 ‘i think of thee’

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‘My thoughts do twine about thee’

Wants to be with lover

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Neutral tones

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‘The sun was white’

Landscape is bleak

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Letters from Yorkshire

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‘Feeding words onto a blank screen’

Plural- routine happening all the time

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The farmer’s bride

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‘Her eyes, her hair, her hair’

Rhymes and stanzas inconsistent

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Walking away

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‘Satellite wrenched from orbit’

Natural process- ‘winged seed’

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Eden rock

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‘Crossing is not as hard as you think’

Real/memory/imagination

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Follower

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‘Today is my father who keeps stumbling behind me and will not go away’
Ambiguous ending

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Mother, any distance

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‘Anchor, kite’

‘Your fingertips still pinch’

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Before you were mine

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‘I’m ten years away from the corner you laugh on’

‘Mine’ is possesive

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Winter swans

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‘Our hands swum the distance between us’

‘Two days of rain’ - pathetic fallacy

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Singh song

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‘It’s priceless baby’

Slows down towards end to show intimacy

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Climbing my grandfather

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‘I decide to do it without a rope or net’

Trust

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