Love's Philosophy
- Created by: matildeg
- 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.
- The poem is short and simple.
- 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"
- The narrator uses personification to show the natural world giving, receiving and benefitting from love
- 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
- Form
- 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.
- Longing
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) wrote this poem in 1820.
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