Relationships - Poetry

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In Paris With You;

• IPWY speaker is unwilling to speak of experiences in past.
• TM man is similarly closed off.

The Farmer's Bride & His Coy Mistress;

• TM woman explores her feelings for husband and their relationship.
• TFB & HCM from male perspective.

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Sonnet 116;

• Battle between love and time in both.

His Coy Mistress;

• Battle between love and time in both.
• Value of being in present and enjoying the moment, in both.

In Paris with You;

• Rejects traditional ideas of love in both.

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Born Yesterday;

• Both reject traditional ideas.

Hour;

• Focuses on preciousness of present rather than past and future. In both.
• Relationship blossoming.

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Nettles;

• Both make use of imagery from a different context to bring significance to everyday situations.

Sister Maude;

• Both present the idea of conflict and violence in a relationship.

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In Paris with You;

• Both about feelings of longing for someone.
• Ghazal less clear about outcome, IPWY relationship is reality.

The Farmer's Bride;

• Sense of longing is negative in TFB.
• Farmer wants to control wife in TFB, speaker is prepared to change in Ghazal.

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Sister Maude;

• Relationships between siblings.
• Adulthood brings distance between siblings.

Harmonium;

• Both poems use seemingly insignificant events to illustrate the relationship.

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Sonnet 43;

• Both list/catalogue another person's qualities.
• Both give a sense of emotional nourishment.

Nettles;

• Both end with the idea of an uncertain future.
• Nettles about a specific event, PS about overall impression.

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Nettles;

• Both about relationship between father and son.

Praise Song for My Mother;

• Both about a parent from a child's perspective.

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To His Coy Mistress;

• Both explore the idea of time and its effect on love.

Sonnet 43;

• About defining love whereas sonnet 116 is about defining personal love.

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Hour;

• Both present love as a positive and powerful force.

Sonnet 116;

• Both insist on the endurance of love.

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Hour;

• Both about the preciousness of time to lovers.
• Both present the idea that time is a force against lovers.

Sonnet 43;

• Contrast; THCM about power and urgency of desire, S43 about purity of love.
  
  

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To His Coy Mistress;

• Both present the female perspective as less important or unfathomable.
• Time is the key theme in both poems.

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Brothers;

• Both about relationship between siblings.
• Delicate balance between friendship and rivalry.

Praise Song for My Mother;

• PSFMM about close family relationship (positive & supportive), SM about negative, jealous relationship.

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The Manhunt;

• Both explore war and martial injury in context of close relationship.

Praise Song for My Mother;

• Both about actions of a caring, protective parent.

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To His Coy Mistress;

• BY encourages reader to accept life's limits, THCM suggests that people should aim for as much excitement and pleasure as possible.

Hour;

• Both about finding pleasure in ordinary, everyday experiences.