Romantic Love- Winter Swans And Singh Song Flashcards
TS1: In ‘Winter Swans’, the couple is presented as being emotionally distant at first, however, on the other hand, in ‘Singh Song’ the couple has a very close romantic and emotional bond.
‘Icebergs’
‘Tummy ov a teddy’
TS2: Both poems use a romantic lexical field, where in Winter Swans, the swans are the catalyst and in Singh Song, they create romance out of the mundane environment.
‘Whispering stairs’
‘They mate for life’
TS3: In both poems, the couples are shown as overcoming physical and emotional challenges whilst ending up emotionally and romantically close.
‘He vunt me not to have a break’
‘Like boats righting in rough weather’
Both poems use unrhymed couplets to present their romantic relationship and reunification
‘Say’ ‘baby’
‘Other’ ‘flight’
‘Icebergs’
L= metaphor
Icebergs=cold. D=Emphasises how they’re becoming emotionally cold with each other.
C= poem from poets collection ‘skirrid hill’. Skirrid comes from the welsh word Ysgariad, meaning separation.
‘Tummy ov a teddy’
L= metaphor
Comforting and affectionate.
I= has a softer side emotionally, however, alternatively, she also has the side where she is ‘effing’ and has a ‘crew cut’.
‘They mate for life’
L= first bit of direct speech. Breaks the silence- couple starting to communicate. D= swans are the catalyst for the speaker’s partner to want to repair the relationship. R= reader feels relief and happiness that they are reunited, like swans.
‘Whispering stairs’
L= personification D= love transforms the most mundane of places into the most romantic.
‘Like boats righting in rough weather’
L= simile
Signals hope in the relationship as the boats are righting.
D/I= alternatively, the boat symbolises how they have to get past the disagreements in their relationship. Float or sink.
Like the boats (swans), they have to recover and get past the stormy weather which suggests that the couple needs to resolve their past disagreements.
‘He vunt me not to have a break’
Represents his father as an obstacle to his relationship as he is preventing him from being with his wife.
L= Punglish- suggests he feels not welcome there as he’s different to other. Emphasises how the speaker is British but different.
R= feels pity for speaker as he thinks he’s not welcome there.
C= this reflects how the poet is British but of Indian descent and he tries to portray the experiences of first generation immigrants to Britain in his poems.
‘Other’ ‘flight’
D= WS ends on an unrhymed couplet which shows how they are not yet entirely in harmony with each other. Committed to rejoin as a couple but still difficulties to overcome.
I=Alternatively, it ends on a couplet which shows how they are reunited as a couple.
‘Say’ ‘baby’
Repetition of unrhymed couplet emphasises their relationship as a couple.
Structure- ‘9 o’clock to 9 o’clock’
Chronological structure suggests his life is mundane and routine.
This shows their close romantic love as they make love in the most mundane places.
