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Picture/title/authorWhat the poem is aboutHow the poem should make you feelKey quotesPoetic techniques-6020149500When We Two PartedBy Lord ByronA speaker talks about breaking up with his girlfriend. He compares the end of a relationship with death.This poem makes us feel sad and shows us that love can be painfulSilence and tearsPale grew thy cheekA knell in mine earRepetition of silence and tears. Semantic fields of death, agony and true love.-503299400 Love’s PhilosophyBy Percy ShelleyA speaker talks about how everything has a partner accept for him. He is talking to somebody that he would like to be with.We feel sorry for the speaker because he does not have a partner.The poem shows us that lack of love can make us feel alone.Nothing in the world is singleThe mountains kiss high heavenMoonbeams kiss the seaLots of romantic verbs – mix, kiss, mingleAlternating rhyme scheme-503127800Porphyria’s Lover By Robert BrowningPorphyria goes to the speaker’s house. The speaker strangles Porphyria with her own hair. He says he does this so she can be with him forever.The poem makes us feel disgusted at the arrogance of the speaker.It shows us that falling in love can be dangerous. Glided in PorphyriaPorphyria worshiped meGod has not said a wordDramatic monologue lets us see the speaker’s point of view.Pathetic fallacy is used to make us feel that the speaker is cruel and mad.-5031600Sonnet 29 – I think of thee!By Elizabeth Barrett BrowningA woman compares her love to a tree. Like a tree her love grows. It makes us feel happy that she is so in love.It shows that love can be joyous.I think of thee!Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bareDeep joySonnet – traditional love poemThe tree is an extended metaphor for love.543534600Neutral TonesBy Thomas HardyA couple stand by a pond in winter. They are close to breaking up.We feel sorry for the couple because they cannot communicate. The poem shows us that love can be painful, particularly when it ends.Winters dayThe smile on your mouth was the deadest thing.Love deceivesSemantic field of death and winter. A,B,B,A rhyme scheme makes the poem seem like the speaker doesn’t know what to say. -419763148600Letters from YorkshireBy Maura DooleyA woman is in a big city whilst her manly lover is in Yorkshire planting. They are far apart but love each otherWe feel sorry for the couple because they are far apart from each other. We also feel hopeful about their love. It shows that love can be sad when you’re apart. Digging his gardenBreaking ice on a water buttPouring air and light into an envelopeJuxtaposition between the city and the countryside. The poet uses imagery to make the man in the poem sound powerful and masculine.-286412088100Farmer’s BrideBy Charlotte MewA farmer gets married to a young woman. She tries to run away but he catches her. She becomes withdrawn. He wants to have children with her.We feel shocked at how poorly the woman is treated. We might feel sorry for the farmer a bit.It shows us that having power over someone does not make them love you. She runned awayLike a mouseSome others in the hose but weDramatic monologueRural dialect makes the farmer sound uneducated.29276710000 Walking AwayBy Cecil Day LewisA man watches his son play football. He thinks about his son growing up and walking away with his new friends.We feel happy because the son is supported and growing up. We feel sad that the relationship between boy and father is changing. WrenchedI have had worse partingsLove is proved in the letting goSense of pathetic fallacy with the poem being set in September – a time of change.Similes -88828044700Eden RockBy Charles CausleyA speaker watches his mother and father have a picnic from across a river. They might be welcoming him to either life or deathWe are amazed at the power of family.The father seems attractive and likeable.It shows us that love is stronger than death. [his dog] trembling at his feetStiff white clothThey beckon to meThe stream is a metaphor for change. The poet focuses on the appearance of the parents-698516700500FollowerBy Seamus HeaneyA boy follows his father as he works with a plough. Years later he is annoyed by his father following him. We are initially impressed by the father because he seems so strong. Then shocked and saddened that the son is annoyed by his father.It shows us that relationships change over time. An expertI stumbled in his hob nailed wakeIt is my father who keeps stumblingTwist at the end – the technical term for this is a Volta.There is a rural semantic field.5435216900Mother, any distanceBy Simon ArmitageA mother helps her son measure his new house. She is very exact. At the end the speaker is not sure if he will succeed or not.We are impressed by the mother. It shows us how we have to rely on our family for support.A second pair of handsThe last one hundred-inchFall or flyLots of verbs that make the mother seem exact. Hyperbole is used to make the house seem huge and the speaker seem small. -65405000 Before you were mineBy Carol Ann DuffyA speaker imagines her mother when she was young. She seems care-free and attractive. We are shown that people change over time. We feel a sense of joy and interest imagining our parents when they were young. Polka dot dressCha cha chaLoud, possessive yell Lots of imagery that makes the mother seem attractiveThere are comparisons to Marilyn Monroe.-69856858000Winter SwansBy Owen SheersA couple watch swans swimming around. They hold hands at the end. We are shown that you can choose to stay in love if you want to. Waterlogged earthThey mate for lifeI noticed our handsThere is personification of the ground. 461773894200Singh Song!By Dalit NagraThe poem is about an Indian man who owns his shop. He is a bad shop owner but a great lover to his wife, who seems really modern and attractive. We enjoy the happiness in the poem.We see that Indian people are the same as everybody else. My brideIs half di cost ov yoo baby,after vee hav made luvlike vee rowing through PutneyWritten in an Indian dialect0000Climbing my GrandfatherBy Andrew WaterhouseA young child imagines climbing his grandfather. We see that the child admires his grandfather.We could see the grandfather as distant. Without a rope or net.Climbing has its dangersGood heartExtended metaphor, comping a grandfather to a mountain. ................
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