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12 Cards in this Set
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What is the Umbrella Sentence? |
In both 'Neutral Tones' and 'When We Two Parted' the poets represent the pain of love as being difficult to understand and cope with. |
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What is topic sentence 1? |
Whereas 'Neutral Tones' has a lot of natural imagery to portray the heartbreak felt by the couple, the speaker in 'When We Two Parted' uses multiple rhetorical questions to show the pain of heartbreak that he feels. |
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What is topic sentence 2? |
Whilst the heartbreak felt in 'Neutral Tones' is shared between the couple, it is implied that only the speaker feels the pain of heartbreak in 'When We Two Parted.' |
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What is topic sentence 3? |
Both poems have regular stanzaic structures which suggests that the speakers are attempting to gain control of their emotions. |
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'Winter day' |
L - Natural imagery L - Pathetic fallacy D - Winter is symbolic of increasing emotional coldness, bleak outlook for their relationship. |
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"The sun was white" |
D - 'sun' associated with light and hope - the fact that is white; drained of colour - connotes dying relationship; loss of hope and love in their relationship. |
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"Why we're thou so dear?" |
L - Rhetorical question Questioning why he loved her so much when she caused so much pain. |
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"How should I greet thee?" |
Implies his uncertainty about how he might react → Still emotionally affected. |
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"On which lost the more by our love" |
D - oddly worded line implies that the more the couple attempt to communicate - ironically - the more love is lost between them. |
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"half broken-hearted" |
I - Speaker may not be fully heartbroken. Only half of the couple was heartbroken, he was; she wasn't. |
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Regular Quatrains - L |
D - The poets control over the stanzaic structure implies his attempt to impose control over his feelings about the end of their relationship. |
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Octets - L |
Regular stanzaic structure → His attempt to gain control over the chaos of his emotions. → by imposing regular structure. |
