Poetry AQA Theme: Seperation

?
View mindmap
  • 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
      • 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
    • 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.

    Comments

    No comments have yet been made

    Similar English Literature resources:

    See all English Literature resources »See all AQA Anthology resources »