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EXAM PLAN - unseen poetry paper 1 (significance of a rose) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - AO3 - Typical of 17th century poems to have a young and unwilling/hesitant woman be part of the idealised romance. (GLR)
        
        AO4 - Comparable to ‘Romeo and Juliet’ although Juliet wasn’t unwilling you could argue she is quite young and living out Romeo’s idealised romance, she also displays some hesitance since she has to go against her family to do it.
        
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- - - - AO3 - (OPR) this poet has lived through the victorian era all the way up to the post modernism era of poetry. Where marriage was a strict arrangement, all the way to the roaring 20’s. To today where homosexuality is accepted and there is a new wave of feminism. This is shown through her liberating poem.
        
        AO4 - Comparable to ‘The Great Gatsby’, Gatsby’s obsessive love over Daisy prevents him from seeing how she loves Tom more.
        
        AO5 - We can alternatively interpret that the rose means nothing and that it is a barrier to avoid realism.
- - - - AO3 - (GLR) during the civil war and restoration era in the 17th century where metaphysical poets (highly intellectual) created poetry.
        
        AO4 - For instance this poem has parallels to ‘The Flea’, where the speaker is begging this woman to have premarital sex/mocking men like this.
        
        AO5 - We can alternatively interpret that the rose is a 3rd party that show the couple are unable to create a bond on their own.
- - - - AO3 - The early 20th century saw a lot of push against formal structure and style. The modernist movement of the early 1900s was in a way fighting back against the idea that poetry should be elegant and beautiful. Poems became shorter and more concise e.g. Yeats or Frost (OPR)
        
        AO4 - Comparable to ‘This be the verse’ by Philip Larkin, it explores natural and possibly existential issues like what man gains from one another. Specifically mentioning family issues. We do learn to love from those closest to us
        
        AO5 - We can alternatively interpret that the rose represents strength rather than fragility and it is used as a distraction to the couples miscommunication.
- - - - AO3 - The sexual revolution, also known as the sexual liberation, was a social movement that challenged traditional codes of behaviour related to sexuality and interpersonal relationships throughout the United States and the developed world from the 1960s to the 1970s.
        (OPR)
        
        AO4 - In ‘A Streetcar named desire’ Blanche has to hide the truth about her to gain love such as with Mitch.
        
        AO5 - ...