Love's Philosophy

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  • Created on: 10-09-17 13:20
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  • Love's Philosophy
    • Form
      • The poem is short and simple.
        • The narrator believes that what he's saying is the simple truth
      • Regular ABAB rhyme scheme, but two lines in each stanza dont rhyme.
        • This Reflects the way that all of the nature is in harmony except for the narrator and his loved one.
    • Structure
      • The poem is tightly structured to be persuasive
      • The narrator uses the majority of each stanza to build up evidence.
        • To support his argument that everything in nature is supposed to come together.
      • He uses a short line at the end of each stanza to ask a rhetorical question.
        • This line stands out from the rest of the stanza which emphasises the contrast between nature and the narrator's situation.
    • Language about Nature
      • The narrator uses personification to show the natural world giving, receiving and benefitting from love
        • This emphasises his point that love itself is natural and necessary.
      • Eg. "And rivers and oceans"
    • Religious Language
      • Language to do with God  suggest that love isn't just natural it is also Godly
      • Eg. "All things by a law divine
  • Feelings and attitudes in the poem
    • Longing
      • The narrator longs for love.
      • He is frustrated that his love isn't returned when he sees all the bonds that exist in nature.
    • Playfulness
      • The narrator oversimplifies the ide that because things in nature come together he and the woman should come together.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) wrote this poem in 1820.

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