Formylover
- Created by: annapowell
- Created on: 21-05-18 09:05
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- For my Lover
- A02
- 11 Quatrains with 2 couplets
- Confessional poem
- Lots of enjambement - her free flowing confessions or length of affair
- Metaphors showing the positive qualities of his wife 'Fireworks in the middle of dull February'
- Shift change in tone on line 29 'I'
- Sexual imagery 'small red wound'
- A03
- Postmodern
- Anne Sexton 1969
- Divorce was taboo in the 60's
- Mistress POV
- Sexton had a lack of sanity, makes the poem unusual
- Main Ideas
- Unusual image of female heart
- Setting lover free
- Telling her lover to return to his wife
- 'Tells stories that are immensely significant to mid 20th century..life' (George)
- Links with Jane (A04)
- The idea of mistresses is prevalent in both texts
- Both mistresses also remove themselves as a barrier allowing the pure love of marriage to win out
- Bertha is silenced vs poem from mistress POV (era)
- Both texts present an atypically (for the era) strong female
- The idea of mistresses is prevalent in both texts
- A02
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