When We Two Parted Flashcards
Form?
Lyric poem
How many lines are the stanzas?
8 (octets)
How many octets are there?
4
What could the 4 octets suggest?
His grief lasts throughout the poem and is constant
What type of structure?
Cyclic
What does the cyclic structure suggests
Trapped in grief, cannot move on from this relationship any more than the poem can break out of this structure
Feelings haven’t changed
May never be set free
How does the regular ABABCDCD rhyme scheme suggest the loss of the speaker?
Repetition, fortifies the feeling of loss
Why is the ABABCDCD rhyme scheme used?
Couplet feel when read out loud- lovers were once a pair and have now become individuals so the rhyme lines are separated by non rhyme lines
What are the temporal shifts?
Past, past, present, present, future
Why is there a vague time and setting?
Secrecy and intensity
Why is the acentual verse broken in lines 5 and 7?
Reflects his shock at being rejected- broken
What effect does the acentual meter have?
Older, freedom, lament- lost without her
Half broken…
Hearted
Pale grew thy…
Cheek and cold, colder thy kiss
That hour foretold…
Sorrow to this
It felt like the warning of…
What I feel now
Thy vows are…
All broken
Light is thy…
Fame
A knell to…
Mine ear
They know not I…
Knew thee
In secret we met…
In silence I grieve
Who was the poem written about?
Lady Francis Webster
Key themes
Love, pain, disillusionment, regret, loss
Themes
Rejection, love, union, disappointment
What type of imagery is used?
Natural
