Winter Swans Flashcards
Quick Revision when revising for Winter Swans
1
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Themes:
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- Distance
- Nature
- Anger, Bitterness
- Reconciliation
2
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Compare With:
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- Neutral Tones
- Letters From Yorkshire
- Singh Song
- Sonnet 29
3
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Distance:
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- “Two days of rain and then a break”
- “ As we skirted the lake, silent and apart”
4
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Nature:
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- “Until the swans came and stopped us”
- “The waterlogged earth”
5
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Anger, Bitterness:
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- “They halved themselves in the dark water”
6
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Reconciliation:
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- ” With a show of tipping in unison”
7
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Compare With: Neutral Tones
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- Nature, they both start with ponds
- They both start in the past
- They both start with a bad, miserable start
8
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Compare With: Singh Song
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- They are always apart in the poem
- At the end of the poem, they are together
- Happy Ending
- A lot of Pathetic Fallacy
9
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Compare With: Sonnet 29 “ I Think Of Thee”
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- Nature is shown
- Their relationship is distant
- In the end, they are together
10
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Structure:
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- Separated in the first five stanzas
- United in the final two
- “I noticed our hands, that had, somehow swum the distance between us and folded, one over the other”
11
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Form:
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- In the three line stanzas, looks unbalanced, just like their relationship
