comparing anthology poems

Question 1

If

(the father passing advice to the son)

Answer 1

themes:
-resilience
-masculinity
-metaphor for human potential
-contrast
-unrealistic expectations
-risk taking
expectations for men in 19th-20th century
fatherly approval

Question 2

prayer before birth
the before birth perspective )

Answer 2

themes
-horrors of the world/ reality
-innocence
-vulnerability
-repetition
-humanity
-isolation
-god/autocrat
-juxtaposition of innocence and war

Question 3

blessing

( the privelidge of water and its importance)

Answer 3

themes
-wealth
-water
-malnurishment
-poverty
-religious connotations extend the metaphor
-uncertainty

Question 4

search for my tongue
(finding the mother tongue again (culture))

Answer 4

themes
-culture
-resurrection
-sense of identity
-imagery relations to nature

Question 5

half past two

(imaurity of and adolecent child)

Answer 5

themes
-authority
-youth
-immaturity
-priorities

Question 6

sonnet 116

Answer 6

themes
-love
-devotion
-ideolised version of life
- personification of love

Question 7

La Belle Dame sans Merci

Answer 7

themes
-unrequited love
-forceful actions
-hallucinations/ fantasy
-death
-cyclical structure
-nature
-CONTROL
-lexical field of isolation

Question 8

poem at thirty-nine

Answer 8

theme
-wealth
-melontonic tone ( sadness)
-death/ grief
-nostalgia
-debt
-connection to father
-grattitude
-mannerisms

Question 9

my last dutchess

Answer 9

themes
-controling
-toxic relationships
-unrequited love
-seething jealousy from duke
-objectification of women misogyny
-power
-irrational
-impossible standards
-titles/ wealth