English Literature - When We Two Parted - 2016-17 GCSE AQA
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- When we two parted
- Language and its effects
- Verb - sunk
- Sense of depression and this is juxtaposed to the notion of morning - should be a time of renewal and every - instead it is a time of low emotion
- Adjective - broken
- This suggests a severe break, which can never be fixed or reunited. It also suggests a betrayal of sorts.
- Verb - Shudder
- The physical pain that comes from his emotional torment - she still has the power to hurt him - he is also portrayed as weak here.
- Verb - sunk
- Alternative interpretations
- 'Thy vows were broken'
- A marriage vow has been broken by the affair but also between the lovers has been broken. Perhaps a vow of silence to keep their affair a secret.
- 'The dew of the morning'
- Could symbolise the mans tears of ir could symbolise a cold sweat of the fear of suffering.
- 'Thy vows were broken'
- Structure and its effects
- Contrast of ' in secret we met, in silence i grieve'
- Shows the hushed, hurried clandestine-affair in contrast to his pitiful present now alone without her - he cannot share what happened,
- clandestine= kept secret or done secretly.
- Shows the hushed, hurried clandestine-affair in contrast to his pitiful present now alone without her - he cannot share what happened,
- Caesura of 'long, long'
- Introduces a pause to stress how infinite his pain feels and the time he will spend wallowing in regret.
- Repetition of 'silence and tears'
- At the start, both were and and disconsolate - but now after all these years, if the speaker were to meet again, it would be him alone, still grieving in the same way - it suggests he cannot get over her
- Contrast of ' in secret we met, in silence i grieve'
- Tone and its effects
- Deathly tone evoked through words like 'sever', 'pale' ' cold' 'chill' 'knell'
- Suggests their is no life now for the man - a sense of emotional distance and a man trapped and constantly haunted by gloom.
- 'Thy heart could forget'
- Tone of isolation and betrayal from the man that his lover could move on to.
- 'Why wert thou so dear?'
- Tone of anger and disbelief at himself that he could have ever loved her.
- Deathly tone evoked through words like 'sever', 'pale' ' cold' 'chill' 'knell'
- Imagery and its effects
- 'A knell in mine ear'
- Sound imagery/metaphor which implies a bell being rung - the bell could represent a sense of loudness and inescapability from her memory,
- 'Half broken-hearted' - imagery
- Sense of being destroyed and that he can never again be whole.
- 'Colder thy kiss'
- Sense imager which shows she has moved on from him - uncaring and harsh
- 'A knell in mine ear'
- Context
- Lord byron (1788-1824) was an english poet and one of the most famous members of the romantic movement
- Deliberately vague and could relate to most relationships. She could actually read it and know without every being publicly accused.
- This poem is said to be about his love affair with Lady Frances Webster. Not only was she a married woman, but she was the wife of one of his friends.
- This could be a secretive way of attacking her.
- Once their love affair had ended, Byron had learnt of Lady Frances' new love affair with the Duke of Wellington.
- Veiled references to vows - she had to keep her name a secret and only allude to what happened.
- Lord byron (1788-1824) was an english poet and one of the most famous members of the romantic movement
- Language and its effects
- Poetic devices and their effects
- Cold and foretold = alternate rhymes
- There is an ominous and foreboding feel - sense of impending gloom for their relationship - also the general alternate rhyme structure could show they are now separated and will never be together
- Dramatic monologue
- We see his very personal take on their relationship and his growing anger and grief.
- Alliteration of cheek and cold, colder
- The repetition of the consonants is cutting and harsh, suggesting their emotional distance.
- Cold and foretold = alternate rhymes
- There is an ominous and foreboding feel - sense of impending gloom for their relationship - also the general alternate rhyme structure could show they are now separated and will never be together
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