English A2 Love Through The Ages

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Types of form in poetry

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Blank verse -> unrhymed lines of Iambice Pentameter ->shakespearian drama's
Epic-> poem about the gods
Free Verse- poetry without pattern of meter rhythm
Lyric-> short , song like poem
Ode-> classical lyric form, 3 parts
Sonnet-> petrarch/sonnet

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In a Unseen Drama/Poem/Novel text what do we look for?

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Langauge : imagery , metaphors , alliteration , semantic field , irony.classical ref, symbols, allusions, allegory

Structure for Drama text: Dialogue -> which character has more? *sonnet, rhythm, bathos, blank verse*

Structure for Poetry: Sonnet/free verse, blank verse, punctuation, assonance, consonance

Structure for Novels- punctuation, paragraphs, dialogue , tempo, tense ,person, sentence legnth.

Form: stage directions, lighting , setting, music, opening/ending, pace, twist, costume, setting

Always try and assess how effective these devices are and what is the writer trying to portray?
*Shakespeare's plays.

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Enduring Love + Love through the ages.

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Types of love explored :
-Dark (obsessive love)
-Religous Love
-Homosexual
-Romantic

Structure :
Jed's letters are symbloic of his mental state of mind , long sentences demonstrate lack of control -> contrast to the narrators (Joe) concious delivery of information.

Change in person 1st person (Joe's voice) -> 2nd Person ( Clarrissa's viewpoint in chapter 9.)
jed's letters are in first person
-Tends to use rhetorical questions , repetition , lists.

Dialogue between Joe-> Clarissa- Insight into relationship , cracks form.

Joe-> Parry- Loss of control (Parry) Joe retains his morale highground.

Language -
semantic field of god/science, natural imagery "intimate whiff of rotting meat"

key Quotes:
Parry : "Joe, Joe, Joe" " Our love" "offering me love and Gods love"
"If I can't have him, no one can"
"It's like you invented him"
"It all happened by chance! -> link to AVFTB/G.G
"sobbing"

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The Great Gatsby

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Types Of Love-
Consumerist
Illicit
Class Systems
Romantic
Marriage

Structure : past tense , 1st person , narrator (Nick), patterns "car"

Language : natural imagery , symbols , semantic fields,

Key Quotes :
Daisy : " I want to push you in that pink cloud" , Describing Gatsby's Shirts "apple-green and lavendar and faint orange"
"You know I love you"

"their eyes met....alone in space"

Nick on Jordan "hard, limited person"

Modern period

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Anne hathaway

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Types of Love-
Romantic
Marriage

language- Natural Imagery, Semantic fields (places,language devices), sexual innuendo, reptition
Structure- Sonnet form , Iambic Pentameter , use of - , Enjambement,
Key Quotes : "my living laughing love" "spinning worlds , forests, castels " "verb dancing in the centre of a noun"
post- modern period

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Sonnet 116- Shakespeare

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Language- semantic field of time , personification , astrological imagery, dark overtones
Structure: Shakespearian sonnet, volta

Key Quotes-
"Love's not time's fool" "alters when it alteration finds"

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To His Coy Mistess

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Structure- Rhyming couplets, 3 verses (hypothesis, argument,conclusion) Iambic tenatrometer, 1st person
language: sexual imagery , personification , metaphors, classical reference,
change in tone

Classical reference-> woman questions mortality , cheap tricks to get her into bed? no female voice.

Key Quotes; "Times winged chariot" "Had we" "then worms shall try" "we cannot make our son...we will make him run"

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Sonnet 43- Elizabeth barrett browning

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Structure- Shalespearian sonnet, Internal rhyme, question/answer, enjambement
language- Religous Imagery,metaphors, patterns.

Key Quotes: " the depth and breadth" "faith...saints..God" "sun ...candlelight" "I shall but love thee better after death" - metaphor -> love is eternal.

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Measure For Measure

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"torch" -> symbol of hope.
"test made of my metal"

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Penelope

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Language: warm colours, alliteration, innuendo
Structure: 1st person , list, enjambement.

"scarlet thread" "far too late"