Revise The Topic Sentences Flashcards
Walking away and when we two parted- partings
Ts1: both recall memories of partings
Ts2: both use vivid imagery to describe the pain of parting
Ts3: whilst Byron’s speaker still feels distress, Day-Lewis’ speaker feels philosophical about the parting
Structure: WA: line breaks and enjambment to reflect the need for parting.
Ww2p: cyclical structure to show how he can’t move on.
Winter swans and Singh song topic sentences
Ts1: WA- emotionally distant at first
SS-close romantic and emotional bond
Ts2: both have a romantic lexical field- WS- swans are catalyst where as SS- make love out of mundane environment.
Ts3: both shown as overcoming physical and emotional challenges whilst ending up emotionally close.
Structure- both use unrhymed couplets to present their reunification and love.
ITOT and LP- desire/longing topic sentences and structure
Ts1: natural imagery
Ts2: religious semantic field
Ts3:LP- he is trying to seduce her as love is unrequited.
ITOT- Already emotionally close but long to physically be with each other.
Structure: ITOT-Petrarchan sonnet- Volta comes early showing impatience to see him.
LP- rhetorical question at the end of each stanza to make her question her resistance.
MAD and F- family relationships
Ts1: family relationship can negatively impact.
Ts2: strong and supportive relationship
Ts3:MAD- have to physically move away from each other and their strong relationship.
F- father now dependent on son in old age.
Structure: MAD- rhyming couplet show how even though they are physically distant they are still emotionally bonded.
F- half rhymes and full rhymes show how they are different people but bonded by blood.
Strong bonds- Eden rock and before you were mine topic sentences and structure.
Ts1: strong bonds evoked through photographs.
Ts2: ER:spiritual bond exists beyond death.
BYWM: speaker wants to bond with her mother as she was in the past.
Ts3: ER: speaker feels at peace with being reunited with parents in the after
life.
BYWM: speaker is possessive of her mother.
Structure: ER- single line stanza to represent step into after life.
BYWM: caesurae to emphasises difference between mother in past and present.
Pain/suffering- walking away and neutral tones.
Umbrella- WA pain from parting from son, where as NT pain from romantic rejection.
Ts1: both recall memories of pain from parting. WA- parting from son
NT- romantic rejection.
Ts2: natural imagery.
Ts3: pain takes different forms.
WA- speaker guilty
NT- speaker bitter
Structure: NT- cyclical structure to show speaker hasn’t moved on.
WA- enjambment and line breaks to reflect need for father to let his son go to become independent.
WA and MAD- family bonds
Ts1: natural imagery
Ts2: guide children until breaking of family bond.
Ts3: MAD- breaking of bond is positive where as in WA it is negative.
Structure- WA- enjambment
MAD- rhyming couplet
Farmers bride and I think of Thee- strong bonds in romantic relationships.
Ts1: FB- bond weak or non existent
ITOT- bond very strong
Ts2: FB- speaker’s love object desires to escape from the forced bond
ITOT- speaker desires to have a more physical bond with love object.
Ts3: natural imagery to convey strong bonds.
Structure- ITOT- Petrarchan sonnet- Volta comes early emphasising her impatience to see him so strong bond.
FB- monologue shows how she has no say as he is dominant in the relationship, reflecting the forced bond.
Walking away and mother any distance- general distance
Ts1: both poems use natural imagery to present general distance.
Ts2: Mad- distance portrayed as positive, WA- negative
Ts3: both parents guided their children until they had to become distant.
Structure: WA- enjambment to emphasise need to become distant:
MAD- ends on a rhyming couplet to show how even though they are physically distant, they will still be emotionally bonded.
Romantic distance- winter swans and I think of Thee
Ts1: WS- emotionally distant
ITOT- emotionally close but physically distant.
Ts2: natural imagery.
Ts3: WS-romantic distance overcome by swans becoming catalyst
ITOT- speaker desires to overcome this physical distance.
Structure: WS- ends on an unrhymed couplet emphasising how they are bonded again but not in perfect harmony.
ITOT- Petrarchan sonnet- Volta comes early emphasising her impatience to see him.
The Farmers’ bride and Singh song- marriage
Ts1: SS- desire for wife fulfilled
FB- desire for wife unfulfilled.
Ts2: different takes on courtship( getting to know loved one)
Ts3: FB- wife timid, shy.
SS- outspoken and assertive
Structure: fb- dramatic monologue
Ss- Many references throughout
Chronological structure represent mundane nature but how the make the most of each day with love.
Italicised customer words interrupts his poetic ode to wife- barrier/ obstacle.
