key points

Question 1

Themes

Answer 1

• Death - circle of life
• religion
• women/misogyny
• insanity
• religion
  -love/lust
  -family/relationship

Question 2

Ballad structure

Answer 2

narrative poem :
- usually has a tragic ending
- leaps + lingers through significant moments
- written in quatrains
- abcb rhyme scheme & iambic pentameter which links to nursery rhyme
- goes through seasons - circles back to the beginning

Question 3

Significance of seasons

Answer 3

Winter - death
Spring - new beginnings/ meeting Anna
Summer - getting married/ warmth
autumn - nature dying like his relationship with Anna