Love And Relationships Gcse Author & Form

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When We Two Parted - Author

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Byron

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Love's Philosophy - Author

Back 2

Shelley

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Porphyria's Lover - Author

Back 3

Browning

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Sonnet 29 - Author

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Barrett Browning

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Neutral Tones - Author

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Hardy

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The Farmer's Bride - Author

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Charlotte Mew

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Walking Away - Author

Back 7

Day Lewis

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Letters from Yorkshire - Author

Back 8

Dooley

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Eden Rock - Author

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Causley

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Follower - Author

Back 10

Heaney

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Mother, Any Distance - Author

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Armitage

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Before You Were Mine - Author

Back 12

Ann Duffy

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Winter Swans - Author

Back 13

Sheers

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Singh Song! - Author

Back 14

Nagra

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Climbing My Grandfather - Author

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Waterhouse

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When We Two Parted - Form

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-Four 8- line stanzas

-Strong ABAB rhyme scheme (rhythm emphasis certain syllables, highlighting the speaker's pain.

e.g "Cold", "Kiss"

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Love's Philosophy - Form

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-Short poem (implying the simplicity of the subject matter)

-Regular ABAB rhyme scheme, yet two lines in each stanza don't perfectly rhyme (reflecting that all in nature is in harmony except for the narrator and their loved one)

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Porphyria's Lover - Form

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-Dramatic monologue.

-Asymmetrical rhyme scheme ABABB & enjambment (Suggest the speaker is unstable)

-Regular rhythm emphasises instability due to apparent calmness.

-Porphyria has no voice in poem (speaker projects his own thoughts and feelings onto here in life/death)

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Sonnet 29 - Form

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-Sonnet, traditional for love poetry

-Loosely written in Petrarchan form

(Octave + Sestet = Problem + Solution)

- However in this poem the volta arrives early (Line 7), this reflects the speaker's impatience.

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Neutral tones - Form

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-POV of a person addressing a past lover

-First and last lines of each stanza rhyme - implying that the memory of a past experience affects the reader in the present.

-Each final line is indented creating a pause implying the speaker's sadness at the failed relationship.

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The Farmer's Bride - Form

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-Dramatic monologue

-mostly iambic tetrameter

-varying rhyme scheme

-features give the poem a strong rhythm without becoming predictable.

- written entirely from the farmer's point of view, wife is voiceless.

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Walking away - Form

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-First person narration, emphasising that the event is from personal experience.

-use of enjambment and caesura contributes to the rhythm of the poem - recreating natural speech

-Regular ABACA rhyme scheme reflects the steadiness of the father's parental love

-repetition of "A" rhyme reflects how the memory affects the speaker years later

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Letters from Yorkshire - Form

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-Free-verse poem make it flow like natural speech or a letter

-Enjambment allows lines/stanzas to flow into eachother

-continuous movement reflects the theme of seasons changing

-three-line stanzas are odd making the poem seem disjointed reflecting disconnection

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Eden Rock - Form

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-Five stanzas, mainly four lines, nearly all ten syllables

-Regular structure reflects comfort and steadiness his parents bring

-Final line separated from the rest of the stanza, representing speaker's physical separation from their parents or he has now 'crossed the stream'

-half rhymes = gentle natural rhythm

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Follower - Form

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-Six stanzas, each four lines long and written mostly in iambic tetrameter

-neat structure and steady rhythm mimics the action of ploughing

-ABAB rhyme scheme some are only half rhymes, reflecting boy falling short of being like his father

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Mother, Any distance - Form

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-Loosely written in sonnet form, typically love themed so this shows the narrator's love for their mother

-Poem has irregular rhyme scheme reflecting the narrator's feelings of uncertainty

-uneven lines of last stanza reflect mother/son bond reaching breaking point

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Before You Were Mine - Form

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-Four equal stanzas of five lines

-consistent form reflects steady passage of time and inevitable changes that time brings

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Winter Swans - Form

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-mostly written in tercets which makes each stanza look unbalanced

-uneven line length and lack of rhyme scheme contribute to a feeling of disjointedness - reflecting to troubled nature of the relationship

-final stanza is a couplet = they've reunited as a couple

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Singh Song! - Form

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-No regular rhyme scheme but poet uses some rhymes creating a light hearted tone

-voices of narrator's wife and customers showing community

-song-like verse and chorus, lively and rhythmic

-little punctuation makes the poem flow in a way that sounds confident and cheerful

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Climbing my Grandfather - Form

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-present tense, follows narrator's journey up metaphorical mountain

-Enjambment imitates motion of climbing, steady progress

-visually poem seems strong and solid like a mountain