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Relationships Poems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Valentine | Irregular rhythm, metaphors for love, forceful language, powerful emotions, repetition, importance of honesty. |
| Rubbish at Adultery | Strong upbeat rhythm, creates contrast, humour, questions, enjambment to create pace, ceasura, anger at end. |
| Sonnet 116 | Love doesn't change, powerful metaphors for love, sonnet form. |
| Our Love Now | Structure of two sides of argument, enjambment=flow of throughts, metaphors throughout. |
| Even Tho | Free form, lack of punctuation, metaphor to show feelings, happiness and independent people. |
| Kissing | Opposite stanzas, positive imagery of youth, negative of old. Enjambment shows thought process. |
| One Flesh | Description of an image, metaphor, enjambment shows continuous thought, death of passion. |
| Song for Last Year's Wife | Strong sadness, loss, enjambment= thoughts, miserable imagery. |
| My Last Duchess | Elaborate language, continuous prose like a story, hidden serious issues, powerful narrator. |
| Pity me not because the light of day | Don't pity me for the end of a relationship but because I haven't got over it. Continuous prose, lots of metaphor. |
| The Habit of Light | Simplistic language, ceasura pauses ideas, can be seen as metaphor. |
| Nettles | Love between father and child, rhyme scheme makes poem simple, strength of emotions contrasts simple ideas. |
| At the border, 1979 | Childlike viewpoint, comments on visual aspects, suggestion of more complex issues, sensory imagery. |
| Lines to my Grandfathers | Simple comparison, builds up a life story, enjambment shows thought process, divided into two, different aspects of grandfathers described. |
| 04/01/07 | Powerful use of imagery and language, describes a snapshot in time, ceasura to stop and think, very emotive. |