When We Two Parted

Question 1

Themes:

Answer 1

• Pain, Loss, Death
• Anger
• Heartbreak
• Regret

Question 2

Compare With:

Answer 2

• Neutral Tones
• Winter Swans
• Farmer’s Bride
• Porphyria’s Lover

Question 3

Pain, Loss, Death:

Answer 3

• “When we two parted, in silence and tears”
• “They name thee before me, a knell in my ear”

Question 4

Regret:

Answer 4

• “It felt like the warning”
  He knew that something bad would happen

Question 5

Anger:

Answer 5

• “Thy vows are all broken and light is thy name”
  Metaphorically got ‘married’ and she ‘divorced’ him and broke their ‘vows’ ( his life)

Question 6

Secret, Forbidden Love:

Answer 6

• “In secret, we met, in silence and tears”

Question 7

Compare With: Neutral Tones

Answer 7

• Loss of a relationship
• Both narrators are reflecting
• Believe their partner was deceiving
• Cyclical Structure, Unable to go forward
• Reference to death

Question 8

Compare With: Winter Swans

Answer 8

• The relationship was torn apart
• Pathetic Fallacy, weather changes with mood
• Death Of Relationship

Question 9

Compare With: Farmer’s Bride

Answer 9

• Men both want their relationships to last
• Women are the ones with the greater dominance, the ones who leave
• Men are in the heartbreak

Question 10

Compare With: Porphyria’s Lover

Answer 10

• The women have the power and dominance ( rich)
• Relationships can’t be ( status)
• Death Of Relationships
• Men want women more than the women want the men

Question 11

Structure:

Answer 11

• Moves through time ( Past, present, future)
• Juxtaposition of the past and present ( no change in narrator’s relationship)

Question 12

Tone:

Answer 12

• Narrator has an angry and bitter tone in the poem
• His Suffering

Question 13

” A knell to mine ear”

Answer 13

A knell is a bell that is played at a funeral or in death. It implies that the author feels that the end of the relationship is the end of his life.