Seen Poetry context

Question 1

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Answer 1

• Keats represents the pains and the loss of freedom that came with ;eve as he could never marry his love
• The subject of Keats’ poem –> Bewitching faery creature, romantic interests in the imagination and beauty
• Symptoms of the knight mimics thats of his brother and mother who died of TB

Question 2

A Complaint

Answer 2

• Wordsworth’s use of exclamation/ question marks is relevant as he was a major romantic poet
• Towards the end of the poem there are many dashes which signify the change and break in his relationship with his best mate Coleridge.
• Wordsworth’s use of everyday language like, ‘happy moments did I count!’ –> is significant because he wanted to make his poem accessible to everyone.

Question 3

1st Date He 1st Date She

Answer 3

• Cope is a contemporary artist which is reflected in the subject of the poem of dating which the modern audience can relate to.
• Poem is part of a collection called ‘family values’, which contains a series of poem about a concert and people in the audience. This is linked to the line, ‘ I said I liked classical music’
• Cope has a keen eye for the everyday hopes and confusions in an intimate relationship

Question 4

Love’s Dog

Answer 4

• Hadfield explores the different sides of love but knows enough about love to write about it as she is the youngest writer to win the T.S Eliot prize, so is still exploring love
• Title inspired by Edwin Morgan poem that talks about the effort and deliberation of love in the same way that Hadfield’s poem explores the happiness and difficulties of love.
• Her interest in the visual world reflects the form as the rhyming couplets and the anaphoric sentences 12 line stanzas show differences in a relationship.