Poetry Quotes

Question 1

When we two parted

Romantic Period

Answer 1

‘In secret we met’ - Forbidden/Secret love
‘Long, log shall i rue thee’ - regret
‘A knell in mine ear’ - Pain, loss, death
‘Thy vows are all broken’ - Anger, bitterness

Question 2

Love’s Philosophy

Romantic Period

Answer 2

‘The fountains mingle with the river’ - Nature
‘And the moonbeams kiss the sea’ - joy, passion
‘If thou not kiss’ - Desire, longing/ unrequited love

Question 3

Porphyria’ Lover

Romantic Period

Answer 3

‘As a shut bud holds a bee’ - Pain, loss, death
‘In that moment, she was mine mine fair’ - Desire, Longing
‘Porphyria worshipped me’ - unrequited love

Question 4

Sonnet 29 - I Think of Thee

Romantic Period

Answer 4

‘My thought do twine and bud about thee, as wild as vines around a tree’ - Nature
‘straggling green which hides the wood’ - joy, passion/desire, longing
‘i think of thee’ - secret love

Question 5

Neutral Tones

Answer 5

‘the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing’ - pain, loss, death
‘as though chidden by God’ - anger, bitterness
‘a pond edged with grey leaves’ - nature

Question 6

The Famers Bride

Answer 6

‘I chose a maid’ - unrequited love
‘her eyes, her hair, her hair!’ - desire, longing
‘With birds and rabbits’ - nature
‘her smile went out’ - pain, loss, death

Question 7

Walking Away

Answer 7

Letting go - ‘like a satellite, wrenched from its orbit

Childhood - ‘a sunny day with leaves just turning

Question 8

Follower

Answer 8

‘his shoulders globed like a full strung sail’ - parental love
‘behind me and will not go away’ - letting go
‘An expert’
‘I was a nuisance, tripping, falling’