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21 Cards in this Set
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Umbrella Sentence |
In both "I Think of Thee" and "Loves Philosophy," the poet's represent desire and romantic love as physical and natural. |
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Topic Sentence 1 |
In both poems, the poet's use natural imagery to convey their desire and romantic longing. |
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Topic Sentence 2 |
Whereas the speaker in "I Think of Thee" commands her lover to be physically present rather than exist in her thoughts, in "Love's Philosophy" the speaker attempts to persuade the subject that their relationship should become physical. |
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Topic Sentence 3 |
Whereas the mood of "I Think of Thee" is one of excitement, in contrast, the mood in "Loves Philosophy" is one of frustration. |
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TS1 LP - 'fountain' |
L - Noun Uses natural imagery to describe love and how it is natural to have desires. I - Phallic symbol of desire and ejaculation C - Georgian era, sex before marriage regarded as unnatural/immoral and a sin but Shelly was an atheist. |
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TS1 LP - "water" "air" "earth" |
L - Elemental nouns Sex is elemental and fundamental and we need it to survive just as we need ait and water. D - Missing element is fire = passion ---> what she needs and what the speaker is trying to cultivate. R - Are they persuaded by the fact that sex and desire is seen as necessary. |
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TS1 IToT - "palm tree" |
L - Metaphor Religious significance, shows how he gives her spiritual fulfillness. Palm Sunday = Palm leaves lay lain at Jesus' feet. I - Connotations of worship, strength, stability, protection. C - BB was strongly Christian |
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TS1 IToT - vines "twine" around her |
L - Verb Cerebral and describes her thoughts I - Physical as she wants to embrace him and has s physical desire to wrap themselves around eachother. |
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TS2 LP - "fountain" compared with "ocean" |
L - Noun Shelly suggests the benefits of "mingling" means they are part of something much larger and stronger D - Power of love I - Stronger together through love |
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TS2 LP - "see" "kiss" "clasp" |
L - Verbs Speaker wants her to imagine kissing and embracing him physically L - Personification of natural imagery We can infer that he does this to try and persuade her to succumb to desire |
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TS2 IToT - "Renew thy presence" |
L - Imperative verb Commands him C - Victorian women were expected to be submissive and not comanding |
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TS2 IToT - "bands of greenery" that "encircle him" |
She wants the restrictions they have from seeing eachother to be broken and forgotten so that they can freely see eachother. R - Makes reader frustrated for the speaker that she is unable to be with her lover. |
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TS3 LP - "If though kiss not me" |
L - Rhetorical question - Last line Natural to have sexual desire I - Makes her question her own position Speaker is angry that she won't change |
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TS3 LP - "Loves Philosophy" |
L - Ironic Philosophy is a set of logical, rational principles. Whereas love often is irrational and illogical. D - Frustrated speaker that people think differently about love rather than in a way he can control or understand. R - Anger at the speaker for trying to control an uncontrollable thing like love or recall their own understanding of how love is frustrating. |
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TS3 IToT - "set thy trunk all bare" |
C - Speaker wants him physically. Unconventional for a woman to express her desire so overtly in the public form of a poem. I - Sexual connotations Rid herself of the thoughts she has that "twine" about him and see him as he really is, sexually. |
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TS3 IToT - "new air" |
L - Metaphor Implies that the speaker has led a confined, restricted life - Her lover is a breath of fresh air Love is liberating C - BB and Robert B married VS wishes of BB's father and she escaped a restrictive upbringing. |
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FORM & STRUCTURE - LP |
2 stanzas - Reflects Shelly's message that it is natural for things to be in couples. R - Stanzas end in rhetorical questions to get his live to think about his viewpoint and question her own position. |
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FORM & STRUCTURE - IToT |
Petrarchan sonnet often used for love poetry. Poet uses enjambment in the first 4 lines Reflects in terms of the vine how the speakers thoughts are flowing and growing around the figure of her absent lover. Caesura in 7th and 8th line represents the break between thinking about her lover and her command that he makes himself represent. |
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RRM - LP |
Iambic tetrameter and Iambic trimeter The shorter lines emphasize that it is unnatural for her to resist "coupling" with him. Cross-rhymes - Couples that are not yet together but should be I - Regular rhyme scheme, normal and usual for them to be together |
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RRM - IToT |
Rhyme scheme reflects the dominance of "thee" which also reflects how he dominates her thoughts. |
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CONCLUSION |
- Romantic love and desire are fundamental and natural due to natural imagery - Romantic relationships are predominantly physical |
