A Song Absent From Thee

Question 1

ideas/presented love as?

Answer 1

• guilty tone to explore infidelity

Question 2

typicality

Answer 2

often explores a ‘feeling of disgust at the futile nature of his life’

Question 3

structure?

Answer 3

• imabic tretrameter
• song form (lyrics musically expressive of emotion-heartfelt)

Question 4

‘twill plainly kill, to wish all day, all night to mourn’

Answer 4

• pity, his suffering- half rhyme represents them as a couple that dont align together.
• he’s straying away from her, symbolic of him as broken/deterriorating

Question 5

‘that tears my fixt heart from my love’

Answer 5

• wallowing in self-pity- self sabotage
• torn away from her, victimises- mentally drained/tired