Three key themes for each poem

• When we two parted

  • death of a relationship
  • cold affair
  • silence
• Loves Philosophy

  • natural/intimate semantic field (pairs)
  • passionate rebel love
  • blasphemy for sexual gain
• Porphyria's Lover

  • Imbalance of power
  • Male urge to posses and control
  • Purity and dominance
• Sonnet 29 - 'I think of thee!'

  • Progression of realisation
  • Tree imagery
  • Separation and mingling of structure
• Neutral Tones

  • Silent woman
  • Sun and light imagery
  • Neutral poem structure
• Letters from Yorkshire

  • Enduring spiritual connection, distance
  • in/active lifestyles, nature
  • warm and cold
• Walking Away

  • Independence
  • Fatherly urge to protect (edging to control)
  • Religion and cliches
• Mother any distance

  • movement
  • risk
  • rural tight knit farming community
• eden rock

  • vague/ambiguous
  • religion and deceit
  • domestic
• Before you were mine

  • guilt and tragedy
  • youth
  • movement
• Winter Swans

  • communication
  • doubt to hope
  • strain and separation to completion of a pair
• Singh song

  • marriage and work
  • harsh warmth
  • Indian and British culture
• Climbing my Grandfather

  • treatment of older generation
  • connected with earth, wisdom
  • effort and adoration of getting to know
• Farmers bride
• Follower ...