Love poems ❤️

• Who wrote Valentine?

  Carol Ann Duffy
• what is some context for Carol Ann Duffy?

  Her poetry has been subject to some controversy

  Duffy’s poetry is often feminist
• Whats the opening line of valentine?

  Not a red rose or a satin heart
• Finish the quote from valentine “I ____ you an ____”

  I give you an onion
• Finish the quote from valentine “_____ to a ______ ring”

  Shrinks to a wedding ring
• What’s the final line from valentine?

  cling to your knife
• What poem did Rita Dove write?

  Cozy apologia
• What’s some context for cozy apologia?

  Dedicated the poem to her husband

  Based on hurricane Floyd

  Its an auto biography poem
• What’s the opening line of cozy apologia?

  I could pick anything and think of you
• Finish the quote for cozy apologia “today a ______ is nudging up the coast/ oddly ____: big ____ Floyd“

  Today a hurricane is nudging up the coast/ oddly male: Big Bad Floyd
• What’s the final line for cozy apologia?

  I fill this stolen time with you
• Who wrote sonnet 43?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• What’s some context for sonnet 43?

  Victorian poet

  suffered with life long illness

  dedicated her poem to her husband Robert

  originally published in Portuguese
• What’s the opening line of sonnet 43?

  How do I love thee? Let me count the way
• Finish the quote for sonnet 43 ”I love thee ___, as men _____ for _____”

  I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
• What’s the final line of sonnet 43?

  Smiles, tears, of all my life!- and, if God choose/ I shall love thee better after death
• What poem did Lord Byron write?

  She walks in beauty
• what’s some context for she walks in beauty?

  Romantic poet

  He was a womaniser

  Based on meeting his cousins wife
• What’s the opening line for she walks in beauty?

  She walks in beauty
• Finish the quote from she walks in beauty “thoughts ______ express”

  thoughts serenely express
• What’s the final line of she walks in beauty?

  A heart whose love is innocent!