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7 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
- 3rd side (hint)
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The first stanza (Winter swans) |
The clouds had given thier all- Two days of rain and then a break Im which we walked. |
Intepretations: -Pathetic fallacy -symbolisim -Speaker a man/women in a relationship -Speaking to Sig.other |
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The second stanza (Winter Swans) |
The waterlogged earth Gulping for breath at out feet As we skirted the lake, silent and apart |
Interpretations: - Dreary imagery of nature uses - The last two words show distant the couple had become |
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The third stanza ( Winter Swans) |
Until the swans came and stopped us With a show of tipping in unison. As rolling weights down thier bodies to thier heads |
Interpretations - the swans taught them what love is |
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The fourth stanza (winter swans) |
They halved themselves im dark water, Icebergs of white feather, paused before returning again Like bergs righting in rough water |
Intepretations: The last line is a simile Ice bergs imagery suggest the swans are delicate like love The couple are 'righting thier relationship'. |
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The fifth stanza |
'They mate for life' you said as they left, Porcelain over stilling water. I didn't reply buy as we moved on through the afternoon light |
Interpretations: Positive imagery eg light They mate for life is symbolic of devotion in a relationship |
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The sixth stanza (Winter swans) |
Slow-stepping lake's shingle and sand, I noticed our hands, that had, somehow, Swum the distance between us |
Interpretations: Swum the distance is a metaphor (?) The couple have made up, |
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Seventh stanza (winter swans) |
And folded, one over the other, Like a pair of wings settling after flight |
Interpretations: Similar to the end of a shakespearean dramtic sonnet that concludes with a couplet Simile |
