Love

The clod and the pebble

The clod makes the best of the situation

love is selfless

it sacrifices itself

The pebble thinks love is selfish

love is cruel

song

talking about a man who is very bad to her

lists various bad things about him

he will leave you when it turns rough

he is happy when your sad

he values stupidity

he does nothing but want more

if you please him he will leave you

then she says these are the good parts of him

they call him love instead of his name

she basically calls him a baby

he never keeps to his word

he lies constantly

he promises loads but never delivers

he'll flatter you to trick you and take pleasure in it

passion

she's tormented until she hears the sky speaking to her

rhyme scheme: triplet

the language abandoned her fingers

like the ghosts of Homer's Odyssey

mystical love, connected to religion and spirits

she has an epiphany

she talks about the apocalypse, judgement day and heaven and hell

Last sonnet

literary terms

personification of star

metaphor, eternal lids apart

aliteration, mountain and moors

shows his desire to be like a star

the tone is melancholic

he wants to live a life that never moves forwards and always stays the same

he knows the star is sleepless, he thinks this is positive

he knows the life of a star is lonely

he would like to either live like a star forever or die

Theme

personifies a star as a human watching from above

the connotation is of a bright star, a good thing

oxymoron - contrasting images

Love (III)

Herbert is describing his love for God

Herbert was born in wales, educated in London and he was a clergyman

he considered himself dirty, with dust and sin

here, dust means humans, "ashes to ashes, dust to dust"

sin could be original sin

metaphysical poem

Lover's infinetness

Metaphysical poetry

like a monolougue

the poem is gentle but jealous

starts with a paradox

he treats love like a business deal

The paradox of love that in giving your heat to another, it is transfigured; and compare. Mathew 16,25

strong realism

startling opening - energy and movement

there are puns

there's a fusion of emotion and intellect

the iteration of all, all, all, infinitives

Donne combines sacred and profane metaphors

he thought that he had all her love, but there must be some for others

She was a phantom of delight

constant AA rhyme scheme

3 stanzas, 10 lines

iambic tretameter

he thinks she's just an image and doesn't know her

apparition: denotation is just a vision or a spirit

a phantom is not really there

Wordsworth is associated with the romantic movement

he calls poetry "a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"

Tiger in the menagerie

19 lines long

repetition of too makes it unrealistic this is anaphora

the tiger was very stealthy and sly

the tiger is a predator, it might suggest violence, even human violence

might be a reflection of William Blake's Tiger

"like a painting of a tiger" is similie

Connotation of a menagerie is wild animals kept in cages, unnatural

"rock shut" like rocking a baby

violence during the day is in the cage but at night it comes out

"Indian main" is the Indian ocean

to "shed" is more like shedding skin

lots of merging, the eye and the sun and the bars and the stripes

the other animals are helpless

lots of diverse interperetations

Lion heart

about singapore

"You" is about a murlion but the murlion refers to the people of Singapore

fricative alliteration, fist full of fish

"your gills snapped shut" about the evolution of the murlion but also her city

"conquering the shore" is much like an attack

the sand on it's back shows that it was originally a sea creature

"swaddled" is what a baby is wrapped in

reciprocation, you embrace the land and the land embraces you

the surface of the water reflects the surface of the sky scrapers

for my grandmother knitting

about an old woman who has no purpose in life

written in 2nd person

how she gets abandoned by her children - they refuse her knitted clothes

she begins to feel useless

knitting makes her feel young again

the poem tries to close the divide between old and young

she had to work very hard to raise her children, she has worked so hard all her life that she can't stop working

the poet uses normal language and idioms to show a grandmother knitting

she hit her children when she needed to

enjambment is used to draw atention to certain words and phrases

the word refrain is repeated to show that the woman feels useless

her personality is her work

the needles are personified

the word "but" is used in every stanza to show the opposite opinion

grasp has 2 meanings, her hand and her mind

coming home

no longer his home

about growing old

gender differences in his home mother cooks, father labours

repitition

contrasts between old and young

the formal word mother shows their disconnection

stabat mater

autobiographoical

universal appeal beyond it's subjectivity

it has a very peculiar structure

there is a philosophical over tone

references to christian mythology

his mother was embarrassed by her husband being older than her father

walk away symbolises journey and growing up