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Set 2 Flashcards

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1
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Neutral Tones - face

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Have shaped to me your face

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Neutral Tones - Sod

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Starving Sod

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Neutral Tones - Sun

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God-curst sun

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Neutral Tones - riddles

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Tedious riddles

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Neutral Tones - Winter

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That winter day

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Neutral Tones Poet

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Thomas Hardy

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The Farmer’s Bride - Attic

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She sleeps in the attic

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The Farmer’s Bride - Quiet

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Like a mouse, I’ve hardly heard her speak

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The Farmer’s Bride - animal

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We chased her

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The Farmer’s Bride - harvest

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There’s more to do at harvest - time

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The Farmer’s Bride - sheep

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Out ‘mong the sheep

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The Farmer’s Bride Poet

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Charlotte Mew

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Porphyria’s Lover - Angel

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White shoulder bare, glided

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Porphyria’s Lover - passion

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Passion would sometimes pervail

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Porphyria’s Lover - possessive

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Porphyria worshipped me, she was mine

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Porphyria’s Lover - hair

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Yellow string I wound

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Porphyria’s Lover - blush

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Blushed bright under my burning kiss

18
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Porphyria’s Lover Poet

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Robert Browning

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Porphyria’s Lover themes

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Romance - The Farmer’s Bride
Desire - The Farmer’s Bride
Death - Neutral Tones

20
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Neutral Tones Themes

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Loss - The Farmer’s Bride
Distance - Winter Swans, The Farmer’s Bride
Nature - Winter Swans, The Farmer’s Bride
Death - Porphyria’s Lover

21
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The Farmer’s Bride themes

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Romance - Porphyria’s Lover, Winter Swans
Loss - Neutral Tones
Distance - Neutral Tones, Winter Swans
Desire - Porphyria’s Lover, Winter Swans
Nature - Neutral Tones, Winter Swans
Marriage - Singh Song!

22
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Winter Swans Clouds

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Clouds had given their all, then a break

23
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Winter Swans Icebergs

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Icebergs of white feathers

24
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Winter Swans Fragile

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Porcelain

25
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Winter Swans Boats

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Boats righting in rough water

26
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Winter Swans Hand

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Somehow swum the distance

27
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Winter Swans Flight

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Settling after flight

28
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Winter Swans Poet

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Owen Sheers

29
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Winter Swans Themes

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Romance
Distance
Desire
Nature

30
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When we two parted cyclical

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In silence and tears

31
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When we two parted secret

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In secret we met - in silence I grieve

32
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When we two parted chill

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Sunk chill

33
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When we two parted winter

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Pale grew thy cheek and cold

34
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When we two parted uncertainty

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Why wert thou so dear?

35
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Neutral tones context

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Hardy married Gifford
Remarried after she died (both happy marriages)
Depressed over Gifford death
Didn’t like industrialisation, British Empire or marriage
Marriage seen as fixed (women younger than man, man had more rights, divorce easier for men)

36
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Farmers bride context

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3 of mews siblings committed suicide when she was a child
2 more committed to psychiatric wards
Grandfather farmer (expected to marry farmer)
Women couldn’t deny husbands sexual demands
Women expected to do housework
Men expected to earn a living

37
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Porphyria’s lover context

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Browning was a Victorian poet who focused on social class, wealth, religion, love & violence
Mid 19th century (sex and violence normalised through news papers)
‘Fallen woman’ lost innocence before marriage and heavily tied to their wealth

38
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Winter swans context

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Welsh poet, fascinated in WW1 & WW2
Part of collection of skirred hill (skirred is Welsh for separation/ divorce)
Well known for writing about places and people

39
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When we two parted poet

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Lord George Brown

40
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When we two parted context

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Believed to have over 200 affairs
Claimed to have ‘spared’ lady Francis
Lady Francis had affair with him in 1813 then lord wellington in 1816
Claimed to have written poem in 1808 (actually wrote it later)

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