2. 'Love and a question' by Robert Frost
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- Created on: 13-06-17 19:51
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- 2. 'Love and a question' by Robert Frost
- Tone
- Uncertain
- Indecisive
- Context
- Robert Frost
- American but moved to England to have more freedom with poetry
- Love of nature
- Known for dealing with human tragedies and fear
- Robert Frost
- Portrayal of love
- Romantic love between groom and bride
- Love/compassion for mankind
- Sensual love (referring to sex)
- Theme
- Conscience grappling with sensual desire
- Moral dilemmas faced by people
- Lure of worldly pleasures or demonstrate power of conscience over fragile mind.
- Characters
- 3rd person narrator
- Groom
- Bride
- Stranger (anonymous by noun name)
- Importance of marital bed and sex similarly presented in both 'Talking in Bed' and hinted at in 'One Flesh'
- Ending
- Conscience of groom questions whether he did right thing
- Structure
- Four stanzas, 8 lines each
- Organised narrative
- 1st
- Accounts stranger coming to door and request
- 2nd
- Indecisiveness
- 3rd
- Dedicated to bride
- Shows importance and'gold' value
- Night with her decides his mind
- 4th
- Suggestion of uncertainty about decision
- 1st
- Tone
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