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Poetry Flashcards

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“Falling in ____ is __________ ____”
You

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“Falling in love is glamorous hell”
Oxymoronic - two sides to love
“Falling” - depth of love

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“Like a _____ ready to ____”
You

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“Like a tiger ready to kill”
Animalistic simile
“Kill” - severity of love

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“You ________ in”
“You ________ in my gaze”
You

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“You strolled in”
“You sprawled in my gaze”
Elongated verbs - hesitation of the speaker

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“Hid… in my __________ rooms”
You

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“Hid… in my camouflage rooms”
“Camouflage” - introverted nature: hiding from what love will bring

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“There you are… like a ____, like a _________ _____”
You

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“There you are… like a gift, like a touchable dream”
Repeated simile; fantastical imagery - a final conclusion

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You structure/form

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Form of a sonnet - 14 lines
Doesn’t follow an a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g rhyme scheme
Inconsistent line length - inconsistency of love
- Elements of romance

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“Love’s _____ ______”
Hour

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“Love’s time’s beggar”
Time as the enemy of love

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“like ________ on the ground; the _____ light”
Hour

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“like treasure on the ground; the Midas light”
Simile: “treasure” - value of love
Allusion to Greek mythology - everything touched turned to gold

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“Time _____ love”
Hour

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“Time hates love”

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Hour structure/form

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Shakespearean sonnet
Typical of Duffy’s poetry
Slant rhyme

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“_______ of by you all ___”
Rapture

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“Thought of by you all day”
Starts with a thought-provoking declarative

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“The ______ ____ in the shelter of a _____”
Rapture

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“The birds sing in the shelter of a tree”
Classic piece of symbolism - peace

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“goes nowhere _________”
Rapture

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“goes nowhere endlessly”
Adverb “endlessly” - infinite
Oxymoronic: “nowhere” - lack of hope

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“Then ____ comes, like a sudden ______ of _____”
Rapture

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“Then love comes, like a sudden flight of birds”
Volta line 10 - significantly between a rhyming couplet “kiss” and “bliss” (opposes simile)
Simile - tranquil side of love

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“Huge _____ _______ us”
Rapture

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“Huge skies connect us”
Metaphor
“Connect” > link to title - eternity with God
Eternity with partner

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Rapture structure/form

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Shakespearean sonnet
a-b-a-b-c-d-c-d-e-f-e-f-g-g rhyme scheme
4 lines of enjambment

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“Your _____ will be _______ things”
Elegy

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“Your bones will be brittle things”
Delicacy of physical romance

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“_________ fits the _____ of my ____”
Elegy

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“perfectly fits the scoop of my palm”
Well-suited relationship (adverb)

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“___ you with a _____”
Elegy

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“lit you with a flame”
Past tense
Takes patience to keep something lit - flames do not last forever

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“press their ______ to the _____ of your _____”
Elegy

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“press their thumbs to the scars of your dates”
Suggestion of physical distance/separation
Metaphor for the death of love

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“till I ________ your ____, your ________ grace?”
Elegy

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“till I mirrored your pose, your infinite grace?”
Interrogative - leaves readers with curiosity; perhaps linked somehow to how we question what happens after death
Endlessness - pre-modifier “infinite”
Well-suited “mirrored”

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Elegy structure/form

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Not a sonnet - atypical of Duffy’s love poetry
You/your used 15 times - speaker has specific listener in mind

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“wearing my ____ of _____”
Betrothal

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“wearing my gown of stone”
Metaphor - willing to devote themselves to a lack of freedom
Feminist remark
Ophelia allusion

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“I’ll wear your ____, your ____”
Betrothal

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“I’ll wear your ring, your ring”
Repetition/refrain
Devotion to marriage

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“I’ll be ___ in a ___, for you to _______ my ____”
Betrothal

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“I’ll be ash in a jar, for you to scatter my life”
Metaphor for lost self/literal promise of dying for love
Lack of freedom

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Betrothal structure/form

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Atypical of Duffy’s romance poetry
Not a sonnet
Structural parallelism
Set out as wedding vows

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“October’s ______ adore the ____… whirl to their own _____”
Love

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“October’s leaves adore the wind… whirl to their own death”
Juxtaposed
Love is like what wind is to an Autumn leaf - Duffy commonly pairs perfectly-fitted imagery together to mirror love
Leads to turbulent nature of love

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28
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“Not ____, you’re __________”
Love

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“Not here, you’re everywhere”
Oxymoron - infliction
Even when not physically present, their name is in everything

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“The _______ sky”
Love

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“The evening sky”
Given it’s own line
Romance conventions - engagement with the piece
In different cultures, a colourful, evening sky represents the end of something - but are equally as beautiful

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Love structure/form

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Resembles a sonnet
Doesn’t follow sonnet rhyme scheme
Use of enjambment - continuation

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“I ____ the dying year ______ me like a _____ and let it ____”
New Year

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“I drop the dying year behind me like a shawl and let it fall”
Simile - falling out of love/in love/into fresh resolutions alone?
Internal rhyme - is the speaker so used to falling in love that the skill of discussing it comes naturally

32
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“The ______ fireworks _____ themselves against the _____”
New Year

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“The urgent fireworks fling themselves against the night”
Personification - desperate urge for reunion

33
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“Most ___, most ____”
New Year

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“Most far, most near”
Oxymoronic - metaphorically close but physically far
Suggestion of distance causing outburst of emotion

34
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“fields and _________ and _____, the _______ lit-up little _____”
New Year

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“Fields and motorways and towns, the million lit-up little homes”
Triplet - confirmation of physical division?
“Home” - source of comfort ironically splitting an even greater source of comfort

35
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“Your _____ is ____ now on my ____”
New Year

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“Your mouth is snow now on my lips”
Metaphor - warmth of the bond has disappeared, even if the contact is still there
Change

36
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New Year structure/form

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Not a sonnet
Three stanzas, each with 5 lines
Line length - 12-16 syllables per line (getting more comfortable)

37
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“That _____ we have of turning ____ to ____”
Wintering

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“That trick we have of turning love to pain”
Bitterness of love repeating (“again”: hence position)
Wrongful and cyclical direction - reflected by seasonal change

38
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“The _____ begin their ____”
Wintering

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“The stars begin their lies”
“Stars” - celestial imagery
Trying to navigate the core of the relationship as the stars would navigate
“Lies” abstract noun - opposes trust

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“Your _____… play inside my ____ like ______ ______”
Wintering

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“Your words… play inside my head like broken chords”
Lack of harmony and fluidity in the relationship
The power and harm of ones voice

40
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“The ____ ______ at the house, bitter, ________”
Wintering

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“The wind screams at the house, bitter, betrayed”
Metaphor, onomatopoeia, pathetic fallacy; plosives
Heavy use of techniques used by Duffy to show depth of frustration
“Screams” - release of emotion

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“____ turns back _____ to ____”
Wintering

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“Pain turns back again to love”
Continuous cycle of bittersweet romance

42
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Wintering structure/form

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Not a sonnet
Change in tone
1st and 3rd lines rhyme

43
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“your head a ____ ______ hissing _____”
Answer

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“your head a wild Medusa hissing flame”
Greek mythology allusion
“your” - anaphora (obsessiveness)
“flame” - 1 of 4 main elements expressing depth of love

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“your arms a _________ ________ me around”
Answer

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“your arms a whirlpool spinning me around”
“whirlpool” - symbol of turmoil, chaos, and danger.
Another discussion of an element
“spinning” - uncontrollable

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“If you were ____ of these, but really _____”
Answer

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“If you were none of these, but really death”
Solidifies the ‘death do us part’ imagery
The peace of nature can never compare to the depth of love within a chaotic romance

46
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Answer structure/form

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Not a sonnet
Rhythm variations
Elements of half rhyme “chest”/”flesh” - imperfections of love

47
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“________, blackened, ________ to ash”
Write

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“reddened, blackened, whitened to ash”
Colour symbolism
Experiencing intensities of heat

48
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“The _____ held me _____ in its ____”
Write

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“The river that held me close in its arms”
Personification
Source of comfort - cooling effect as a result of the sun

49
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“I _______ in belief”
Write

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“I drowned in belief”
Juxtaposed ideas
Struggle, but still a sense of hope

50
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“the _____ like a mob of _____”
Write

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“the stars like a mob of light”
Celestial imagery; simile
“light” - common motif in the collection
Navigation

51
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Write structure/form

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Free verse - no set rhyme
No specific metrical pattern
Not a sonnet

52
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“Your ____, unwrapped, my _____ hands made _____”
Grief

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“Your gift, unwrapped, my empty hands made heavy”
Irony; juxtaposition “empty”, “heavy”
Weight of loneliness
Unconventional pairing of gift-giving with grieving

53
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“My ____ stare ______ now”
Grief

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“My eyes stare inward now”
Searching in their soul for the love once felt?
Reflection of intense emptiness

54
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“My ____, my ____”
Grief

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“My star, my star”
Repetition of celestial imagery
Personalisation: light to darkness

55
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“learning, ________; __________.”
Grief

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“learning, learning; understood.”
Triplet - process of realisation and acceptance

56
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Grief structure/form

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One stanza
Resemblance of a sonnet
Number of semi-colons: continuation

57
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“slipped on the _____ of the ____ I ___”
Ithaca

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“slipped on the dress of the girl I was”
Child-like & care free recognition of the past

58
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“_______ your skin, your ____”
Ithaca

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“Tracing your skin, your hair”
Roaming for leftover footprints of love

59
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“ripening their _____ in our ____ ______”
Ithaca

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“ripening their tears in our pale fields”
Metaphor - loss of vibrancy (“pale”)
Greenery of love is gone

60
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“__________ of your ____, which I _______”
Ithaca

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“fragrances of your name, which I chanted”
Traces of memory
Intense need to rid of distance

61
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“________ my small _____ boat”
Ithaca

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“dragging my small white boat”
“dragging” sense of struggle, but still a will for continuation
“white” - colour symbolism of purity

62
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Ithaca structure/form

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Equal stanza structure
Not a sonnet

63
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“Not ______ my ____ to the ______”
Epiphany

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“Not close my eyes to the light”
The brilliance of their significant other is blinding and cannot be blocked out

64
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“hours with the ____”
Epiphany

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“hours with the dead”
Life without love is not a life worth living

65
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“a _____ gone out yet _______, gold, ___.”
Epiphany

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“a light gone out yet burning, gold, red.”
Juxtaposed “gone out” - “burning gold”
Craving every moment left
Passion is there even when the core is gone
Colour symbolism: “gold” - value, “red” - passion

66
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Epiphany structure/form

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Resembles a sonnet - 14 lines
Echoes of romance
No steady rhythm - lack of continuity

67
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“Till ____ ________ itself”
The Love Poem

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“Till love exhausts itself”
Description of the long, tiring journey love has been on (position)

68
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“love’s _____ fading, ________, black as ___ on a ____”
The Love Poem

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“love’s light fading, darkening, black as ink on a page”
Process of love coming to a depressing, abrupt end
Light mirrors the lover

69
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“there is a ______ in her ____”
The Love Poem

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“there is a garden in her face”
“garden” - literary heritage symbolism of life, beauty, and healing

70
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“the ______ of the ____ for the ____”
The Love Poem

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“the desire of the moth for the star”
Attraction to light (symbolic of the lover throughout the collection)

71
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The Love Poem structure/form

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3 stanzas broken up with a large amount of punctuation
Messiness to the structure - reflection of the relationship? Speaker can’t organise thoughts
Not a sonnet

72
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“No _____ in this _____ sky, no ____ to speak of”
Over

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“No stars in this black sky, no moon to speak of”
Celestial imagery - typically light in a night sky. The pairing has been torn apart
Focus of love has disappeared

73
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“the ______ of love?”
Over

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“the death of love?”
Finally establishes the reason for sombre tones
Interrogative - hesitation and self-infliction/confusion

74
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“_______ with light”
Over

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“flushing with light”
Volta
Light is reintroduced - position might suggest this is just the memory/a new experience bringing joy

75
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“I hear a ____ begin its ____”
Over

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“I hear a bird begin its song”
Classic piece of symbolism
Cliche romance element
Peace and acceptance?

76
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“a ____, the blush of ______”
Over

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“a gift, the blush of memory”
The memories left are seen as an element of joy and appreciation

77
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Over structure/form

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Not a sonnet - end of relationship
Grouping of poems from the collection - memories of experience

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