Poems Flashcards
(138 cards)
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What is Before You Were Mine
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Unconvential Ode
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What are quintains
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Stansas that are five lines long
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How many quintains does Before You were mine have?
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What are each quintains in Before you were mine written in?
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Blank Verse
No Rhyme Scheme
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What is Before You Were Mine Written in
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Loose Iambic Pentamater
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What does the Blank Verse create in before you were mine
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Highly conversational tone reflective of familiar intimacy
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“I’m ten years away”` (Before You Were Mine)
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Conversational tone reflective of personal relationship
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“Maggie McGeeney and Jean Duff… Three.. each…. knees… shriek” (Before You Were Mine)
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usage of assonance develops this, creating vivid aural imagery as well as name of friends
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“Polka-dot dress blows round your legs, Marilyn” (Before You Were Mine)
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Uses Caesura to create sense of drama before reveals mother is like Marilyn Monroe,, develops theme of Hollywood
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“The ball room with the thousand eyes, the fizzy, movie tomorrows” (Before You Were Mine)
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Personification, hyperbole, synecdoche and imagery of Hollywood
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“Your Ma stands at the close with a hiding for the late one. Reckon its worth it.” (Before You Were Mine)
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Scottish Colloquialism about smacking “hiding”, tone of empathy for her mother, direct
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“High heeled red shoes, relics” (Before You Were Mine)
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Colour imagery, child memory, suggests beauty of mother, metaphor for change mother had after birthing child
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“Clear as scent, under the tree with its lights and whose small bites on your neck.” (Before You Were Mine)
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simile, aural factory imagery, light imagery, proud of mothers rebellion, endearing term
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“Cha cha cha!… Teach me the steps on way home from mass stamping stars from wrong pavement” (Before You Were Mine)
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Short dramatic sentence, reference to dance, metaphor showing Hollywood and her love for her believing she could have been in Hollywood
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Before you were mine contenxt
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Author imagining youth of mother in scotland in 1950s
Idea of youthful vigour and Hollywood before responsibility which was herself being born
Idea wanted to know mother when still young
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I am very bothered perspective
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Written from small child view about falling in life
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What is I am Very Bothered written as
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Anecdote of playing a prank on a girl romantically interested in when young boy showing presenting a conversational tone and confessionary tone
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What is enjambment
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When lines carry on from each other
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What does enjambment create in I am very bothered
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Conversational tone
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What type of poem style is I am very bothered
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Unconventional sonnet
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“I am very bothered” (I am very bothered)
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First person narrative, confessionary tone
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“Bad things I have done” (I am very bothered)
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Childish language, simple uncomplicated register.
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“Played handles… called your name… handed them over” (I am very bothered)
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Active Verbs suggesting sense of menace, playfulness and immaturity
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“Naked Lilac Flame” (I am very bothered)
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Colour imagery showing memory is very clear in mind
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"O" (I am very bothered)
Apostrophe, dramatic outburst switch tones to more of Shakespeare showcasing tone of guilt confession and honesty
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"Unrivalled Stench of branded skin" (I am very bothered)
Olfactory imagery showcasing sense of guilt with branded skin, only full rhyme with "Skin" and "in" in next line
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What does only full rhyme in I am very bothered show "skin" "in"
His guilt and pain
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"Couldn't shake off two burning rings, marked doctor said for eternity " (I am very bothered)
Image of marriage which is a common motive in poem
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"Don't believe me please" (I am very bothered)
Direct address in conversational tone speaking directly to wife
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"Just my butterfingered way" (I am very bothered)
Metaphor for healing and showing his attempt at love
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"Asking if you would marry me" (I am very bothered)
Young love
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When was I am very bothered made (I am very bothered)
1993
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What was Simon Armitage
MarriedW
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What does Young Love showcase in I am Very Bothered
Often plays out in immature and unintentionally hurtful ways
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What is the writing methods for How Do I Love Thee?
Petrarchan Sonnet (italian for little song)
Rhyming lines divide into one idea for 8 lines (octet) followed by twist (called a "volta") and then another idea for next six lines (sestet)
Rhyme Scheme ABBA ABBA CDC DCD
Iambic Pentameter to mimic speaking voice
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"How Do I love thee?" (How Do I Love Thee?)
Rhetorical question, conversational tone reflects letter writing which started Elizabeth Browning's marriage
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What does the Octave represent for How Do I Love Thee?
Present
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What does the Sestet represent for How Do I Love Thee?
Past
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What does the Volta represent for How Do I Love Thee?
Future love
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In How Do I love thee what does stating Love 10 times show
To show how much she loves her husband
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What does the Caesuras at the end of How Do I Love Thee?
present a breathless tone showing her enthusiasm and passion for husband
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"Let me count the ways." (How Do I Love Thee?)
Imperative
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"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach" (How Do I Love Thee?)
Rule of 3, personification, religious language, repetition of and
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"For the ends of being and ideal grace" (How Do I Love Thee?)
Loved husband until death, would have appeased Victorian audience, weighty concepts
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"Love thee... every day's most quiet need" (How Do I Love Thee?)
Minutiae (small parts) of life, juxtaposition of previous quote
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"Sun and candle-light" (How Do I Love Thee?)
Light imagery suggesting loves at all time no matter what time of day, sun (day time), candle light (night time)
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"I love thee... I love thee... I love thee." (How Do I Love Thee?)
Anaphora shows relentless love
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"Old griefs" (How Do I Love Thee?)
Went against parents wishes and married Robert (husband) destroying their relationship
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"With my childhood's faith" (How Do I Love Thee?)
Robert (husband) rejuvenated love with god due to love for her
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"With my lost saints" (How Do I Love Thee?)
Suggests people she has loved who died
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What do the three quotes "Old griefs" "With my childhood's faith" "With my lost saints" create in How Do I love Thee?
Tripartite list, nothing she has done or will do will tarnish relationship with Robert (husband)
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"Smiles, Tears, of all my life!" (How Do I Love Thee?)
Tripartite list, rule of 3, suggests life is perfect
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"If God choose, I shall but love thee better after death." (How Do I Love Thee?)
Appeases Victorian audience, Transcends (beyond knowledge)
Religious Imagery, HyperboleW
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What is Long Distance II about
Poem about death of loved ones and how we cope with the grief that results
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What is the Rhyme Scheme in Long Distance II
ABAB rhyme Scheme
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"Though my mother was already two years dead" (Long Distance II)
Detached tone suggests closer to father and already has closer on mother passing
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"Kept her slippers warming by the gas... Hot water bottles her side of bed... renews transport pass." (Long Distance II)
Tripartite list of mundane associated with love
Imagery of heat connoting ongoing fathers love and passion and refusal to accept what has happened
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"You couldn't just drop in. You had to phone" (Long Distance II)
Tone of angst, short sentences, caesura reinforcing frustration
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"He'd put you off an hour to give him time"
"to clear away her things and look alone" (Long Distance II)
Enjambment - takes a long time for him to grieve
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"As though his still raw love were such a crime" (Long Distance II)
Metaphor - his love is like an open wound something that hasn't healed
Hyperbole - longing for wife is something wrong and shameful
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"He'd hear her key scrape in the rusted lock." (Long Distance II)
Onomatopoeia - creates immediacy
Rusted - Juxtaposition lock hasn't been used in a long time
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"Disconnected number I still call" (Long Distance II)
tonal shift in this paragraph
Acts same way as father contradicting himself
Adjective disconnected showing father is dead
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"In my black leather phone book." (Long Distance II)
Colour imagery of death
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What is the Laboratory perspective written from
Dramatic monologue told from perspective of a jilted lover
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Laboratory structure
powerful dramatic monologue, regular rhythm and rhyme scheme mirror the thought behind it
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Laboratory context
based on a 17th century French aristocrat who podiums father and brother for inheritance
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Title of Laboratory
focuses on the unique setting women weren't allowed in these places convey the character as subversive and non conformist persona
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which is the posion to posion her prithee? (Laboratory)
her tone of eager enthusiasm is underlined by the reception of "poison" stretching her determination to murder. Rhetorical question and repetition
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"her" (Laboratory)
subtly revels that she holds the woman accountable for the husbands selfishness shows that she is victim to internalised misogyny
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caesura in the Laboratory
browning uses caesura to create a accusatory tone as the speaker believes her enemy is relishing in her deadest
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"her head and her breast and her arms and her hands " (Laboratory)
the list of body parts dehumanises Elsie making her more justifiable to murder in the characters head. repetition of "and " creates a town of excitement
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"a wild crowd of invisible pleasure " (Laboratory)
uses the exclamation and personification to describe the poison which creates a tone of sudden glee as she anticipates the harm she will inflict
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"let it bright her drink, let her turn it and stir " (Laboratory)
these repeated imperative illustrate her cruel joy in punishing the women her husband prefers
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"brand burn, bite into its grace" (Laboratory)
the alliteration creates a tone of violent aggression emphases that she holds her rivals completely responsible
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"if it hurts her beside can it every hurt me" (Laboratory)
the poignant metaphor exposes her vulnerability and suggest women suffer at the selfish of me
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Structure of sonnet 130
3 ab ab quatrans, iambic pentameter parody mocks cliche love poems
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context sonnet 130
makes fun of hyperbolised love peoms. about his mistress the dark lady
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"Coral is far more red than her lips' red;" (sonnet 130)
opens with 4 subverted metaphors describing his mistress. Imagery of red meaning sexuall
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If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; (sonnet 130)
use of colour imagery describing her skin. dull meaning a darkish brown while white skin back then was considered beautiful
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If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. (sonnet 130)
use of anaphora creates a sense of argument against love
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But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know (sonnet 130)
in the next 4 lines he uses sensory imagery it capture his strong feelings towards her cheeks, smell and her voice
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But no such roses see I in her cheeks; (sonnet 130)
use of natural imagery to illustrate how she cant compare ti nature
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Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. (sonnet 130)
use of olfactory verb "reeks" openly criticising her breath and hygiene
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Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go; (sonnet 130)
the cumulative effect of the speaker's choice of comparisons throughout the poem is one of realism emphasis his strong feelings about her
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And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare. (sonnet 130)
the rhyming couplet that ends the sonnet contains the volta and means the speakers true feelings abiout her is "rare"
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And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare (sonnet 130)
religious iamgery to confirm the idea of his love for his mistress
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What is the structure of Sonnet 130
Sonnet, split into three uneven stanzas
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What are the three parts of Sonnet 130
The memory, the outcome, and the final message to the girl
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When your are old structure
elegy abba rhyme patter , use of iambic pentameter, 3 stanzas, second person
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When your are old context
unrequited love hypothetical future. the passing of her so
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what does iambic pentameter create When your are old
gives poem a soft musical tone to convey the melancholic tone of the poem
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When you are old and grey and full of sleep, (When your are old)
repetition of "and " represents the passing of old age
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And nodding by the fire, take down this book, (When your are old)
use of caesura to slow down the poem effectively
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And slowly read, and dream of the soft look (When your are old)
the enjambment helps to indicate the temporal shift of an imagined future to an imagined past
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dream of the soft look (When your are old)
tone of softness has connotations of youthful vigor
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Your eyes had once, (When your are old)
metaphor of soul the fact that this future is imagined and the past is emphasised by the words "had once"
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How many loved your moments of glad grace, (When your are old)
rhetorical question with the alliteration of "glad Grace" conveys her vibrancy and charm.
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Love fled (When your are old)
personification suggests she could be regretful for loosing the oppurtunity to love him
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And loved your beauty with love false or true, (When your are old)
cretes a tone of criticisng if other lovers who did not love as deeply as he did.
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But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, (When your are old)
use of the connective juxtaposes the "one man" with the many of the fith line in which he refers himslef in the third perso
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And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. (When your are old)
tonal shift to a melancholic tone in the last stanza
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a little sadly, how Love fled (When your are old)
adverb "sadly" to emphasise that the poet thinks she is selfish for not reciprocating his love to hi
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how Love fled (When your are old)
personification suggest she may be regretful for not loving him
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i carry your heart strucutre
modern experimental poem, sonnet , use of idiosyncratic syntax, all lowercase. a flowing enjambment that confers the poems with a stream of consciousness that reveals their inner-most thoughts on their attitudes towards love. no ryytem and irregular stanza breaks
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cummings use of lower case in I carry your heart
Cummings's use of lower case letters here is
also a statement to reflect his desire to be on equal terms with them. He
uses parallelism, "i go you go", which further suggests unity and
exaggerates his desire and passion for his loved one by being on equal
terms.
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I carry your heart context
e.e cummings was an experimental poet in the 1950s
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i carry your heart title
title of Cumming's poem is unashamedly romantic in tenor
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"i carry your heart with me" (i carry your heart)
repetition of the title to emphasise how he loves his lover.
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i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it (i carry your heart)
strong metaphors creating strong imagery of him holding his lover close
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(i carry it in my heart)i
use of brackets creates a tone of clarification emphasising their inseparability
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"I..you..your...my" (i carry your heart)
series of pronouns to put the focus on his love for his partner
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doing, my darling (i carry your heart)
alliteration of d creates a assertive tone emphasising the magnitude of his love
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" dear" and "darling" (i carry your heart)
use of affectionate terms create a strong tone of love
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"i fear" (i carry your heart)
introduces a new negative
emotion of isolation, fear and potential rejection through the phrase, "i fear" which stands on its own line representing the idea of seclusion and
loneliness.
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"no fate...no world" (i carry your heart)
He then goes on to use anaphora, "no fate...no world"
reinforcing that he has nothing to fear or want as long as he has passion
and desire for his loved one.
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"for you are my fate". (i carry your heart)
His momentary negative emotion is
contradicted through the metaphor, "for you are my fate". The abstract noun, "fate" emphasises the idea that Cummings's love in inevitable and his destiny lies in his loved one.
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"moon" (i carry your heart)
Cummings mentions "moon" which is a typically romanticised cosmic image.
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, "sun will always sing is you" (i carry your heart)
He personifies the sun, "sun will
always sing is you" which recalls serenading a loved one.
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"whatever", (i carry your heart)
Cummings uses a vague word,
"whatever", stressing the poem's universality. Readers may connect
and apply the feelings in this poem to their loved ones.
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(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud (i carry your heart)
use of totology to describe his love as self evidently true emphasising the raw passion he has for his lover
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and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) (i carry your heart)
he loves her throughh life and death
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"deepest" (i carry your heart)
Cummings uses a superlative, "deepest" indicating his poem's tonal shift as he moves away from discussing his lover to exploring the theme of love ingeneral.
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"soul can hope or mind can hide" (i carry your heart)
His personification of "soul can hope or mind can hide" reveals love
encompasses every emotion and experience
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carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)" (i carry your heart)
Finally, 'i carry your heart with me' ends in a cyclical
structure, "i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)" inferring his love is perfect and complete which is reinforcing his central message of a pure
love.
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to his coy mistress structure
Marvell's poem which uses highly elevated language,dramatic monologue,iambic tetrameter so his logic is reassured using rhyming couplets.three verse paragraphs
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to his coy mistress context
Marvell is from the seventeenth
century,Marvell urges his mistress in this
poem to give in to pleasure and seize the day and they should not hold back
from expressing their feelings for one another or they could regret it forever.contradicts with the Puritan religious message of the seventeenth century
and challenges the id
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"pass our loves day" (to his coy mistress)
alliteration to show that depicts her were she would have a slow and unhurried life which would be his idealised utopia
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'I would Love you ten years before the flood'. (to his coy mistress)
Marvell's opening paragraph uses the idea of a conceit where the speaker shows his affection for the object of his desire also the use of biblical alusion to say that he has loved her forever the flood being before noahs ark
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'Had we but world enough, and time'. (to his coy mistress)
Throughout, time is personified as being the enemy of
lovers;
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'Time's winged chariot hurrying near' (to his coy mistress)
speaker refers to the lack of time an metaphor
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'like amorous birds of prey'. (to his coy mistress)
'two hundred (years) to adore each breast'
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'then worms will try/that long preserved virginity' (to his coy mistress)
decay in the second
stanza to persuade the mistress to give up her virginity,and that it would be foolish to die
regretting the fact that she has not been able to enjoy herself and has left
herself to the worms.
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'dust' 'lust' (to his coy mistress)
This is added to by the juxtaposition of 'dust' and
'lust' in the next couplet.
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'in my marble vault'' into ashes' v
The image of death 'in my marble vault' and 'into
ashes' is used effectively to suggest that death is inevitable and we must all
take our pleasures when we can.
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'the youthful glue sits on the skin like morning dew' (to his coy mistress)
Suggests that youthful beauty quickly disappears like dew
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of 'like amorous birds of prey' and 'at once our time devour' (to his coy mistress)
The animalistic imagery suggests the growing
impatience of the speaker.
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'roll all our strength and all/ our sweetness' (to his coy mistress)
The sibilance at the end of the poem with the
alliteration of the 's' sound in 'roll all our strength and all/ our sweetness'
suggests it will be a pleasurable experience and one the mistress would not
regret.
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'will' (to his coy mistress)
The final rhyming couplet is positive with the word 'will' suggesting the couple will make the most of their time together.
