Poetry AQA Theme: Seperation
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- Created on: 18-11-16 22:18
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- Seperation
- Winter Swans- Owen Sheers
- I noticed our had, that had, somehow swum the distance between us
- Sibilance- softening in the relationship as their hands are moving through water
- like boats righting in rough weather
- Simile- a reflexive of the couples need to see that they can overcome their problems
- Until the swans came and stopped us
- Swan- metaphor to suggests a change in perspective; new light to distract couple from their concerns
- Like a pair of wings settling after flight
- Showing bond and unity between them.
- Pair - show couple belong with eachother and they're settling sown suggesting their fight is over
- Reconciliation from discord shown by the 3 line stanza
- Lack of rhyme- shows confused and discorded state of relationship highlighting the conflict between them.
- Sonnet 29 the speaker anticipates being united with her lover, Winter Swans there is a reconciliation and the image of the couple's reunion
- Sonnet 29: 'I think of thee!' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- I do not think of thee - I am too near thee.
- Frequency of 'thee' increases as sonnet progress showing increasing prospect of their union
- Title inversion 'I do not think of thee - reflects resolution of thoughts and how her thoughts are futile and to conclusion the physical nature of her lover is now more important to her
- Hyphen - break from thought
- Transformation from discorded thinking to a rationalized thinking
- Let these bands of greenery which insphere thee
- Verb - suggest that her thoughts are consuming and suffocating
- New air
- Sense of revitalised, re- energised new way of thinking.
- Growth and renewal of time - renewal of thoughts
- About thee, as wild vies, about a tree
- Assonance, resonant sound- illustrates her obsessive nature of her thoughts
- I do not think of thee - I am too near thee.
- Sonnet 29: 'I think of thee!' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Both are about love surviving separation.
- Letters from Yorkshire
- Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles
- Metaphor 'icy miles' - emphasises her dislike for distances
- in the cold, seeing the seasons
- Assonance - elongates the word drawing out fondness she has for him
- pouring air and light into an envelope
- Metaphor - shows how natural his life is. She feels alive because of his letters he sends her
- Both poems share a female poet as well as the idea of eachother while apart.
- Sonnet 29: 'I think of thee!' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- I do not think of thee - I am too near thee.
- Frequency of 'thee' increases as sonnet progress showing increasing prospect of their union
- Title inversion 'I do not think of thee - reflects resolution of thoughts and how her thoughts are futile and to conclusion the physical nature of her lover is now more important to her
- Hyphen - break from thought
- Transformation from discorded thinking to a rationalized thinking
- Let these bands of greenery which insphere thee
- Verb - suggest that her thoughts are consuming and suffocating
- New air
- Sense of revitalised, re- energised new way of thinking.
- Growth and renewal of time - renewal of thoughts
- About thee, as wild vies, about a tree
- Assonance, resonant sound- illustrates her obsessive nature of her thoughts
- I do not think of thee - I am too near thee.
- Sonnet 29: 'I think of thee!' - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles
- Letters from Yorkshire
- I noticed our had, that had, somehow swum the distance between us
- Letters from Yorkshire
- Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles
- Metaphor 'icy miles' - emphasises her dislike for distances
- in the cold, seeing the seasons
- Assonance - elongates the word drawing out fondness she has for him
- pouring air and light into an envelope
- Metaphor - shows how natural his life is. She feels alive because of his letters he sends her
- Both poems share a female poet as well as the idea of eachother while apart.
- Our souls tap out messages across the icy miles
- Winter Swans- Owen Sheers
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