ENGLISH - unseen poetry

• look at the form of the poem


  what type of poem is it?, is it traditional? why is the form relevant to the content of the poem?
• look at the structure of the poem - stanzas, syntax, metre, ryhme
• what language is used? - images, techniques, tone, style


  style - formal, informal, matter of fact, lyrical

  tone - satricial, melancholy, romantic

  images- what do they mean/represent
• whats the voice of the poem? tone, person, number of voices
• whats the context of the poem? - date it was written, writer, style/format, similar poems, theme
• love in the renassiance period (1500- 1660)


  elegance and ettiquete

  sophisticated affair

  well choreographed dance

  courtship rituals - elaborate gestures, polite proclamations, crafted love letters

  the exchange of hankerchiefs, glances at balls - mystery of love affairs

  the heart spoke through art, literature, subtle naunces of courtly manners
• love in the enlightenment period(1602 - 1788)


  romantics believed enlightenment suffocated them and squeezing the spirit - passion and morality was out of existence

  romantics saw a universe that was organic and grew in accords of will - the enlightenment saw a mechanical universe run by fixed laws

  romantics were skeptical of science

  romantics were authentic, moral and passionate

  romantics admire passion of their enemies

  romantics loved to break rules - dress code, life style and thinking
• love in the romantic period (1798 - 1870)


  elevated sex was the supreme expression of love

  sex was health of the relationship

  true love is an end to all loneliness
• love in the victorian period(1837 - 1901)


  lockets, antique coins, portraits, poems and sketches and paintings were exchanged and personified with the beauty of the ones beloved

  eternal

  a form of letters - prime way of communication - erases heirachal difference between people and connecting them
• love in the modern era (1914 - now)

  charecterised as an object, a distant beacon, celestical force that will find us when the time is right

  seen beyond our control rather than something we actively persue