Poetry

• Passionate happy love (s29 and ss)- "my thoughts do twine and bud" "as wild vines, about a tree" "set thy trunk bare" and "my bride repetition "made love like vee rowing through Ptney"
• Longing/death imagery(Bm and Er)- "ghost" "clear as scent" "relics" and "the other bank"(river styx) "i hear them call" seperate final line= distance
• Nostalgia(Bm and Er)-"Your polka dot dress blows round your legs Marilyn" "sparkle and waltz" semantic field of glamour and "her hair ... takes on the light" "still two years old and trembling at his feet"
• Disharmony(Bm and Er)-free verse (dissapproval) and alternate half rhymes(doesnt feel right)
• Message(Bm)- embrace youth
• Growing up = unpredicatable(Wa and Md)- "like a satelite wrenched from its orbit, go drifting away" "like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem" semantic field of flight and freedom and "you at the zero end,me with the spool of tape" "anchor.Kite" "space walk"
• Letting go(Wa and Md)- "how selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in letting go" and sonnet but extra line means she needs to let go "endless sky to fall or fly"
• emotive and pain in letting go(Wa and Md)- "Gnaws" "scorching" and "pinch" "breaking point"
• Conventional vs unconventional love(S29 and Ss)-"who art dearer, better!" volta earlier = impatience, sonnet and "vee cum down the whispering stairs" "her sikh lover site" multiple voices
• Natural/ nautical imagery(Cg, F and Ly)- "earth stained hand" "like warm ice" and Nautical imagery= his father was the captain "rolled" "breaking" and "pouring air and light into an envelope"
• Getting to know/ becoming a family member(Cg and F)- "climbing has its dangers" "gasping for breath" enjambment mirrors the 'climb' and "i stumbled" "tripping, falling yapping" to "my father who keeps stumbling"
• Idiolisation(Cg,F and Ly)- extended metaphor= permanent/ reliable, "at his still firm shoulder, i rest for a while" and "his shoulders globed like a full sail strung" "an expert" "he rode me on his back" enjambment mimicks skill and "is your life more real because you dig and sow?


  " "his knuckles singing" "you out there in the cold seeing the seasons"
• Form and structure(Wp and Nt)-cyclical = self pity, regular rhyme = deep reflection and cyclical, "we stood by a pond that winters day" to "a pond edged with greyish leaves", 4 regular quatrains = deep reflection
• semantic field of death(Wp and Nt)- "with silence and tears" "in silence i grieve" "a knell in mine ear" and "the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing" "alive enough to have the strenght to die"
• Victimisation(Wp and Nt)- "thy spirit deceive" "half broken hearted"and "love decieves"
• Pairs in nature(Ws and Lp)- "in unison" "halved" "like a pair of wings settling after flight" and "sunlight clasps the earth" "moonbeams kiss the sea" "nothing in the world is single" ABAB, masc and fem rhyme sheme
• Religious/mythical imagery(Ws and Lp)- swans = sacred to aphrodite and "law divine" "forgiven"
• hope and love growing(Ws and Lp)- "clouds had given their all" to "afternoon light" and "river" to "ocean"
• Context(Fb and Pl)- arranged marriage = women have no voice and women were expected to remain silent and powerless
• Structure(Fb and Pl)- dramatic monologues, use masculine rhyme to e seen as more powerful, women have no voices
• Belittling(Fb and Pl)- "like a mouse" "like a frightened little fay" and "it" "blushed bright beneath my burning kiss"
• obsession(Fb and Pl)- "her- her eyes, her hair, her hair!" "we chased her" to "we caught her" and "mine, mine" "no pain felt she... she felt no pain"
• Victimisation(Fb and Pl)- "one leaf in the still air falls slowly down" and "a sudden thought of one so pale, for love of her and all in vain"