Romantic Love

Question 1

TS1: both poems have a barrier stopping their romantic love

singh song

Answer 1

“hey singh ver you bin?”
L= repetition emphasizes love for his wife and how much customers get in the way. hed rather be with his wife than in the shop
D= he doesnt care about the customers comments, he stops them being obstacles as he only cares about his wife
C= Nagra is from india, lots of culture clash. people are less forgiving

Question 2

TS1: both poems have a barrier stopping their romantic love

winter swans

Answer 2

swans are like “boats righting in rough weather”

L= simile, like swans/boats they need to recover from the storm to get over obstacles in the relationship
D= signals hope for relationship as it is an image of recovery and overcoming obstacles not sinking or destruction
I= signifies how arguments are natural in relationships like rough weather

Question 3

TS2: whilst in Singh Song the speaker expresses romantic love for his wife, in Winter Swans the speaker struggles to express his emotions
(Singh Song)

Answer 3

“tummy ov a teddy”
L= metaphor, shows affection and love, she has a kind hearted side

“priceless”
L= adjective, he cant put a price on her
D= breaks semantic field of commerce, appears to be antithetical to lang of commerce but it is their love that is priceless

Question 4

TS2: whilst in Singh Song the speaker expresses romantic love for his wife, in Winter Swans the speaker struggles to express his emotions
(Winter Swans)

Answer 4

they were “silent and apart”
L= lexical phrase, shows they aren’t talking to each other, near physically but far emotionally, caesura emphasizes how its a big struggle
C= poem taken from his collection “skirrid hill” comes from welsh word ysgariad meaning separation

Question 5

TS3: Whilst in Singh Song romantic love is created in the most unlikely place, in “Winter swans” swans remind the couple of their romantic bond
(Singh Song)

Answer 5

they stare past the “half price window signs at di beaches”
L= lyrical lexical field, love happening in unlikely place a shop, transfroms most mundane places into romantic places
D= they escape using imagination to romantic beaches BUT (I) they are ok as their relationship is the only paradise they need

Question 6

TS3: Whilst in Singh Song romantic love is created in the most unlikely place, in “Winter swans” swans remind the couple of their romantic bond
(Winter Swans)

Answer 6

“our hands….swum the distance”
L= verb, links couples hands to swans who swim, shows how swans are catalyst of the movement
C= swans mate for life, them copying the swans suggest they will
D= adverb “somehow” suggests its instinctive not conscious, shows he still loves her and the bond is still strong

Question 7

Structure: both poems break stanzaic structure in order to convey ideas about romantic love
(Singh Song)

Answer 7

‘each night i say … yoo baby’
ends in non rhyming couplets, reflects how strong their love is and close bond as a couple
I= romantic love, you need to be together but also different for it to work

Question 8

Structure: both poems break stanzaic structure in order to convey ideas about romantic love
(Winter Swans)

Answer 8

last stanza breaks pattern, 2 lines not 3

emph how they are a couple now, just them two and no problems