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From the poem When We Two Parted…

Name 1 structural feature related to the idea of love being constantly lost, as a never-ending cycle.

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The circular narrative

The poem begins and ends with “silence and tears”. Just like every relationship he’s ever experienced.

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From the poem When We Two Parted…

Recite 2 quotes that show the bitterness love has brought Byron.

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You could’ve said…
- “Long, long shall I rue thee / too deeply to tell.”
- “In silence I grieve, / that thy heart could forget, / thy spirit deceive.”
- “Thy vows are all broken,”

“rue” means regret

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From the poem When We Two Parted…

Recite words (language) used to communicate the ‘death’ of Byron’s lover but not his love.

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You could’ve said…
- “Pale grew thy cheek”
- “Cold, colder thy kiss”
- “A knell in mine ear;”
- “In silence I grieve”
- “Thy spirit deceive,”

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From the poem When We Two Parted…

Which line shows the reader that Byron is still willing to experience this loss again?

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“If I should meet thee / After long years, / How should I greet thee? / With silence and tears.”

He knows it’ll hurt if he sees her again.

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What is the context of When We Two Parted by Lord Byron?

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  • It is claimed the poem is an autobiographical account of one of Byron’s many affairs.
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From the poem Love’s Philosophy…

Recite 2 quotes which show the longing that Shelley feels for the recipient.

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You could’ve said…
- “Why not I with thine?”
- “What are all these kissings worth?”
- “All things by a law divine”

His longing and love is almost impatient.

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From the poem Love’s Philosophy…

Recite some language which creates natural imagery within the mind of the reader.

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You could’ve said…
- “And the rivers with the Ocean”
- “The winds of Heaven mix for ever”
- “See the mountains kiss high Heaven”
- “No sister-flower would be forgiven / If it disdain’d its brother”
- “And the sunlight clasps the earth”

Suggesting that to kiss and to love is only natural.

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From the poem Love’s Philosophy…

What structural feature of the poem, emphasises Shelley’s impatience, longing and persuasiveness?

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The poem is very short (2 8 line stanzas) showing that Shelley’s main priority isn’t to talk to the recipient but rather to get his point across, so that they may kiss.

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From the poem Love’s Philosophy…

Recite the line which suggests that the speaker and the recipient not kissing is disrupting the natural cycle of nature.

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“All things by a law divine”

To not kiss him would be to break this divine heavenly law, disrupting nature’s flow.

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What is the context of Love’s Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley?

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  • Shelley was a Romantic poet, hence all the natural imagery.
  • Shelley was an atheist, and so the use of religious imagery towards his lover may suggest a manipulative streak within Shelley.
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From the poem Sonnet 29 – ‘I Think of Thee!’…

Recite 2 quotes which show Browning’s passionate longing for the recipient.

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You could’ve said…
- “I will not have my thoughts instead of thee”
- “Rather, instantly / renew they presence; as a strong tree should,”
- “I think of thee – my thoughts do twice and bud / about thee”

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From the poem Sonnet 29 – ‘I Think of Thee!’…

Recite some language that has some sexual, intimate imagery (that uses natural imagery).

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You could’ve said…
- “Rustle they boughs and set thy trunk all bare,”
- “And let these bands of greenery which insphere thee / drop heavily down, – burst shattered, everywhere!”
- “Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood”

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From the poem Sonnet 29 – ‘I Think of Thee!’…

Name one structural feature which shows the gravity of the recipient’s prescence.

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Non-circular structure, her longing is ended and she is forever changed by. You know. Him fucking her.

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What is the context of Sonnet 29 – I think of thee!

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  • Written to Robert Browning (future husband and then lover and writer of Porphyria’s Lover)
  • Deeply personal
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From the poem Sonnet 29 – ‘I Think of Thee!’…

Name a line which emphasises the faith and longing Browning has for her lover.

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“Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood”

“Palm-tree” in Christianity represents faith.

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From the poem Neutral Tones…

Recite 2 quotes which show that love is dead.

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You could’ve said…
- “The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing”
- “And the sun was white, as though chidden of God”
- “Like an ominous bird (crow?) a-wing…”
- “They had fallen from an ash, and were grey”

to be chidden is to be rebuked
a-wing means flying

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From the poem Neutral Tones…

What line emphasises that love is a brutal, sickening and despairful cycle?

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“Since then, keen lessons that love deceives, / and wrings with wrong,”

Love has taught him that love is lie.

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From the poem Neutral Tones…

Recite words that connote deathly, cursed imagery.

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You could’ve said…
- “- They had fallen from an ash and were grey.”
- “Alive enough to have the strength to die”
- “The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing”

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From the poem Neutral Tones…

Name a structual feature which conveys monotony, the loss of joy in life.

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There are 4 4 line stanzas which have the same A-B-B-A rhyme scheme, highlighting the monotony, the sameness of it all.

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What is the context of Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy.

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  • Thomas Hardy had an unhappy marriage

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From the poem The Farmer’s Bride…

Recite the lines/stanza which puts the speaker’s loveless lust into the spotlight.

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Last stanza.
“The soft young down of her, the brown, / the brown of her - her eyes, her hair, her hair!”

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From the poem The Farmer’s Bride…

Recite 2 quotes which emphasises the lack of love felt for the bride (and highlights the control he forces upon her.)

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You could’ve said…
- “We caught her, fetched her home at last / and turned the key upon her, fast.”
- “Too young maybe - but more’s to do / at harvest-time than bide and woo.”
- “She does the work about the house”
- “I’ve hardly heard her speak at all.”
- “The berries redden up to Christmas-time” (she’s fertile and a kid would be a xmas miracle)
- “Her smile went out, and ‘twasn’t a woman- / More like a little frightened fay”
- “But what to me?”

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From the poem The Farmer’s Bride…

Recite some words within the poem which show the farmer belittling his wife, likening her to small animals - prey.

(Natural Imagery)

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You could’ve said…
- “More like a little frightened fay.”
- “We chased her, flying like a hare”
- “As well as most, but like a mouse:”
- “Shy as a leveret, swift as he”
- “Sweet as the first wild violets she, to her wild self. But what to me?”

Just as the farmer manipulates and uses nature, he wishes to use her.

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From the poem The Farmer’s Bride…

Name a structural feature which highlights his longing to possess her driving him over the edge.

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The repetition of “her hair, her hair” and other words within the last stanza. He’s losing it and probably raped her quite soon after.

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What is the context of The Farmer’s Bride by Charlotte Mew

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  • The poem is set before the Married Women’s Property act of the 1870, which stated that legally a woman was the property of her husband and would not be able to have an income of her own.
  • In 1753 it was fixed at fourteen for men and twelve for women, and remained at those ages until the Age of Marriage Act in 1929, which raised the age to sixteen for both.
  • There was a widespread belief among ordinary people, male and female, that it was every man’s ‘right’ to beat his wife so long as it was to ‘correct’ her if she did anything to annoy or upset him or refuse to obey orders.
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From the poem Walking Away…

Recite 2 quotes representing the nerves the speaker feels from seeing his son go.

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You could’ve said…
- “That hesitant figure, eddying away”
- “A half-fledged thing set free into a wildness,”
- “Like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem,”
- “Wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away”

Eddying means to go in a circle - the son never really left.

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From the poem Walking Away…

Recite some words which convey the pain that the speaker feels after seeing his son go to boarding school.

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You could’ve said…
- “Like a satellite / wrenched from its orbit,”
- “Gnaws at my mind still.”
- “the small, the scorching ordeals which fire one’s irresolute clay.”

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From the poem Walking Away…

Name a structural feature which shows the speaker’s resistance to change.

(Although he eventually accepts it: “Love is proved in the letting go” as the last name)

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Consistent A-B-A-C-A rhyme scheme.

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What is the context of Walking Away by Cecil Day-Lewis

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  • Poem is about his son, Sean Day-Lewis being sent to boarding school
  • He had gone to boarding school himself and so understood the pain and worries from both sides.
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From the poem Follower…

Name a structural feature which shows that the speaker is haunted by their past.

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Every line apart from the last two is recalling the memory from however many years ago.

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From the poem Follower…

Recite 2 quotes which convey how useless he felt and how he longed to be useful.

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You could’ve said…
- “I wanted to grow up and plough,”
- “I stumbled in his hob-nailed wake, / fell sometimes on the polished sod”
- “All I ever did was follow / In his broad shadow round the farm.”
- “Sometimes he rode me on his back / dipping and rising to his plod” (his father would raise him up and drop him down - make him feel useful then useless)

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From the poem Follower…

Recite some words which convey the admiration the speaker feels for his father.

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You could’ve said…
- “An expert.”
- “Mapping the furrow exactly.”
- “Fell sometimes on the polished sod.”
- “At the headrig, with a single pluck.” (conveys precision
- “I wanted to grow up and plough, / to close one eye, stiffen my arm” (wanted to be his father)
- “All I ever did was follow.”

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In reference to the poem Follower…

What is the significance of the last two lines of the poem?

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The roles have been reversed. It is no longer the speaker that is the nuisance but the father. Shows the cycle of life and that now his father is “the follower”

“It is my father who keeps stumbling / Behind me, and will not go away.”

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What is the context of Follower by Seamus Heaney?

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  • He grew up on his father’s farm in Northern Ireland and so the poem may be autobiographical.
  • The poem is one of many praising the concept of hard work and a rural lifestyle
  • And yet he became a poet and not a farmer
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From the poem Mother. any distance…

Name the form feature that reflects the separation between child and mother.

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The 1st and 2nd stanzas focus on the speaker and mother, but the 3rd focuses on only the speaker, symbolising the bold deparature that the speaker is making.

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From the poem Mother. any distance…

Recite some words showing the speaker’s uncertainty in leaving.

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You could’ve said…
- “I space-walk through the empty bedrooms,”
- “That opens on an endless sky”
- “To fall or fly.”
- “The line still feeding out” (there’s more to come)

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From the poem Mother. any distance…

Recite 2 quotes which shows that the mother and speaker shall never truly be apart.

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You could’ve said…
- “Mother, any distance greater than a single span / requires a second pair of hands.”
- “Two floors below your ingertips still pinch the last one-hundredth of an inch …”
- “You at the zero-end,” (she is his home)
- “Recording length, reporting metres, centimetres back to base,”
- “Unreeling years between us.”
- “Anchor. Kite.”

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What is the context of Mother, any distance by Simon Armitage?

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  • The poem was published when Armitage was 30 years old
  • If it was written at that time then he may be missing his mother
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From the poem Winter Swans…

Recite 2 quotes which highlight the hope that there is for love within this poem.

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You could’ve said…
- “I noticed our hands, that had, somehow, / swum the distance between us” (mirroring the swans)
- “ ‘ They mate for life’ you said as they left,”
- “Icebergs of white feather, paused before returning again”
- “Until the swans came and stopped us” from splitting apart any further

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From the poem Winter Swans…

Recite some words which create natural imagery within the mind of the reader.

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You could’ve said…
- “The clouds had given their all -“
- “The waterlogged earth”
- “Until the swans came and stopped us”
- “Slow-stepping in the lake’s shingle and sand”

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From the poem Winter Swans…

Name a structual feature which shows hope for love.

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You could’ve said either…
- There is a non-cyclical narrative, showing that the cycle insisted upon by Ntones and WWTP is broken

or

  • The poem starts with them (“we walked”) and ends with them (“folded, one over the other”).
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From the poem Winter Swans…

Name a language feature used to convey strong emotion in the poem.

A

Pathetic fallacy

Refer to the first two stanzas.

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What is the context of Winter Swans?

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  • This poem comes from his 2005 collection of poems named ‘Skirrid Hill’.
  • Skirrid means separation or divorce in welsh
  • This poem is important in that way, as it suggests that even in a collection all about separation, you can still come back to each other and learn to love each other
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What is happening in…

When We Two Parted?

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  • Lord Byron mourns the separation between him and his lover
  • He wonders if there is a chance he will see her again
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What is happening in…

Love’s Philosophy

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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley attempts to persuade his lover into kissing him
  • He considers the worth of all things in the universe if he is not kissed by whom he loves most
  • He makes the point that kissing is only natural
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What is happening in…

Porphyria’s Lover

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  • A woman (Porphyria) comes to visit a man and is at first very dominating
  • She is making the first move and confesses she loves him
  • The speaker takes this as she asking to be killed, and he kills her
  • They then rest together, the dead and the living in a twisted version of love
  • He exclaims that God does not utter a word
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What is happening in…

Sonnet 29 – ‘I think of thee!’

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  • The speaker thinks of her lover, filled with everlasting lust
  • Eventually her lover comes about and they embrace, partaking in intercourse
  • She is unable to think when he is beside her
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What is happening in…

Neutral Tones

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  • The speaker and his lover are on the brink of breaking up (this is but a memory)
  • He knew they were over before she had even spoken
  • And now the speaker is bitter, assuming all love is worth nothing
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What is happening in…

The Farmer’s Bride

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  • A farmer chooses an underaged wife
  • She runs away
  • They lock her up and now she stays to do her ‘wifely duties’
  • He wonders what/who she is
  • Christmas passes and he feels there should be a family where there isn’t one (he wishes for a child she won’t give him)
  • He loses himself in the idea that he could take what’s “his” and rape her (but he doesn’t in the poem)
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What is happening in…

Walking Away

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  • A father is reminscing the day his son walked away into boarding school
  • He is worried and anxious for his son, and feels that the son too is worried and anxious
  • He stops reminscing and accepts that this was always going to happen
  • Love is proved in the letting go
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What is happening in…

Follower

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  • A son is recounting the memory of his father working the farm
  • He makes note of how skilled and admirable his father was, and how useless and annoying he was in contrast
  • But now the roles have reversed, and he wishes for his father to finally leave him
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What is happening in…

Mother, Any Distance

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  • The speaker and their mother is measuring a house
  • The distance between them is ever expanding, but not ever too far
  • The speaker is uncertain in their future, but knows their mother will be there to support them
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What is happening in…

Winter Swans

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  • Two lovers are walking beside each other in a park, post/mid fight
  • They are unable to even look at each other or talk
  • Swans stop them in their tracks, displaying beauty and grace, reminding the lovers of their love for each other
  • The two lovers are able to reconnect with each other after witnessing such perfect grace
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Name 4 poems that deal with loss.

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  • Neutral Tones (loss is inevitable so give up)
  • When We Two Parted (loss is inevitable but love is worth it)
  • Winter Swans (loss is not the end, and there is hope)
  • Walking Away (loss is natural, inevitable, but should be accepted gracefully)
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Name 4 poems that deal with longing.

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  • Love’s Philosophy (persuasive, impatient longing for his lover)
  • Sonnet 29 (passionate, sexual longing, wishing for intercourse)
  • Porphyria’s Lover (destructive longing, obsessive and controlling)
  • The Farmer’s Bride (perverse, unrequited lust, longing to use her)
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Name 3 poems which deal with nostalgia.

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  • Follower (haunted by past and sick of it)
  • Neutral Tones (haunted by past, and taught by it)
  • Walking Away (haunted by past, tormented by it)
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Name the 3 poems which deal with familial relationships.

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  • Walking Away (POV: Father losing son)
  • Follower (POV: Son remembering father’s greatness)
  • Mother, Any Distance (POV: Child forever connected to mother)

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