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1
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what is the poem about?

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the pain of parting and lost love

2
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who was this poem allegedly written about?

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Agnes Macelhose - affair with Burns whilst married but travelled to Jamaica to reconcile with her husband in 1791

3
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who was this poem allegedly written about?

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Agnes Maclehose - affair with Burns whilst married but travelled to Jamaica to reconcile with her husband in 1791

4
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what are the key themes explored in this poem?

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nostalgia
the male emotion
the individual experience

5
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what literary movement was Burns a part of?

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regarded as a pioneer for the Romantic movement
strong connections with the natural world
criticised idealised notions of love and desire
emphasis on human emotion

6
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what is the significance of the line “warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee”?

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onomatopoeia of sigh (open sound) and groan (closed sound) - contrasting sounds signify internal battle representing speaker’s emotional turmoil

7
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what is the significance of “While the star of Hope she leaves him”?

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star represents love as a beacon of light, but here the guiding light of his life is parting with him - completely surrounded by darkness and despair

8
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“Had we never lov’d sae kindly,//Had we never lov’d sae blindly!” - what is the significance of these lines?

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syntactic parallels - grammatically identical lines - despite they’re parting, his feelings for her remain the same

9
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what is the significance of the first stanza being repeated at the end?

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he is unable to move on - the pain of their parting still resonates within him

10
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what is the general structure of the poem?

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written in simple quatrains
metre puts a stress on the first syllable of every line and ends each line with an unstressed syllable
feminine rhyme scheme, gives the poem sad, falling rhythm.

11
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what are the ideas in this poem that are similar to Gatsby?

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Daisy and Gatsby’s relationship - unrequited love

Barriers to love - Tom

12
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what other poems can you link this poem to?

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absent from thee
Nom Sum Qualis
Remember
At at inn