tips
,● Get onto the unnamed poem as quick as you can, wont get any credit otherwise +
show your knowledge and command of second poem.
● Engage with context quickly:
● Romantic love poems, talk about conventions of romantic poetry.
● Familial poems, talk about idea of remembering a person, place and time, you
remember all associations of what they're like as well.
● Follower: rural
● Eden rock: poem is called the place,
● Before you were mine: 60’s + marilyn
● Mother any distance: rite of passage of first home, mother son relationship is often
idealised in society as most loving caring
● Climbing my grandfather:rural
● Walking away: school
● Try and make acc comparisons rather than putting poems together, both cmg and
follower have left working class, physical environment and are looking back at it, but
cmg is positive and intimacy, follower is about anxiety
● Intro lays out why you are comparing your poems: 4 sentences, why have you
chosen these two poems, then three sections within that, each section has a little
intro or TS to show their comparisons
● When onto second poem, in analysis make references back to first poem, eg both
using pronouns, or one uses pronouns, one gets the similar effect with structure
● For unseen and this, ideas can be fairly closely related
● What's the character of the language of the poem
,structure
, Singh Song & The Farmer's Bride
SINGH SONG (NAGRA)
SINGH SONG (NAGRA) THE FARMER'S BRIDE (MEW)
Phonetic spelling — rejects standard English, Not set rhyme schme — lyrical, makes deeply
mirrors rule-free love, quietly political disturbing content seem joyful, unequal
Cluttered random structure — reflects distribution could show power imbalance
spontaneous relationship Seasonal structure — emotional deterioration,
Short uneven lines — mirror spontaneity and nothing changes or improves
unpredictability Single speaker dramatic monologue — biased
Structural disruption when wife appears — perspective, wife never given voice
exciting interruption of routine Regular quatrains — rigid, controlled, mirrors
Stanzas shift from work to wife — shows his patriarchal institution
devotion over cultural duty Wife never described in human terms —
Ends with rhetorical questions — love ongoing, structural dehumanisation
evolving, never resolved No resolution — poem ends in uncontrolled
Dialogue incorporated — mutual relationship, desire and threat, after continuous control
both voices present Extended monologue expresses long passage
of time continuing
Tone remains detached throughout
WINTER SWANS (SHEERS) NEUTRAL TONES (HARDY)
Tercets with final couplet — instability resolved Four regular quatrains — controlled, rigid,
into unity emotionally contained
Long flowing clauses — mirror unconscious drift ABBA rhyme scheme — cyclical, trapped, no
back together escape
Enjambment — mirrors natural, unforced Cyclical structure — ends where it begins, grief
reconnection as architecture of consciousness
Free verse — unforced, instinctive, not Past tense retrospective narration — pain
constrained by rules preserved unchanged
Title 'winter' — harsh season, swans survive Nature saturated throughout — emotional
against odds, so does love mirror, love drained of all vitality
Monosyllabic diction — plain, blunt, stripped of
feeling
WINTER SWANS (SHEERS) LETTERS FROM YORKSHIRE (DOOLEY)
Tercets with final couplet — instability resolved Tercets throughout — odd, unstable, unusual
into unity for a love poem
Long flowing clauses — mirror unconscious Half rhymes throughout — imperfect
physical reconnection relationship, something missing
Full rhyme in final stanza — 'light'/'night', souls
,● Get onto the unnamed poem as quick as you can, wont get any credit otherwise +
show your knowledge and command of second poem.
● Engage with context quickly:
● Romantic love poems, talk about conventions of romantic poetry.
● Familial poems, talk about idea of remembering a person, place and time, you
remember all associations of what they're like as well.
● Follower: rural
● Eden rock: poem is called the place,
● Before you were mine: 60’s + marilyn
● Mother any distance: rite of passage of first home, mother son relationship is often
idealised in society as most loving caring
● Climbing my grandfather:rural
● Walking away: school
● Try and make acc comparisons rather than putting poems together, both cmg and
follower have left working class, physical environment and are looking back at it, but
cmg is positive and intimacy, follower is about anxiety
● Intro lays out why you are comparing your poems: 4 sentences, why have you
chosen these two poems, then three sections within that, each section has a little
intro or TS to show their comparisons
● When onto second poem, in analysis make references back to first poem, eg both
using pronouns, or one uses pronouns, one gets the similar effect with structure
● For unseen and this, ideas can be fairly closely related
● What's the character of the language of the poem
,structure
, Singh Song & The Farmer's Bride
SINGH SONG (NAGRA)
SINGH SONG (NAGRA) THE FARMER'S BRIDE (MEW)
Phonetic spelling — rejects standard English, Not set rhyme schme — lyrical, makes deeply
mirrors rule-free love, quietly political disturbing content seem joyful, unequal
Cluttered random structure — reflects distribution could show power imbalance
spontaneous relationship Seasonal structure — emotional deterioration,
Short uneven lines — mirror spontaneity and nothing changes or improves
unpredictability Single speaker dramatic monologue — biased
Structural disruption when wife appears — perspective, wife never given voice
exciting interruption of routine Regular quatrains — rigid, controlled, mirrors
Stanzas shift from work to wife — shows his patriarchal institution
devotion over cultural duty Wife never described in human terms —
Ends with rhetorical questions — love ongoing, structural dehumanisation
evolving, never resolved No resolution — poem ends in uncontrolled
Dialogue incorporated — mutual relationship, desire and threat, after continuous control
both voices present Extended monologue expresses long passage
of time continuing
Tone remains detached throughout
WINTER SWANS (SHEERS) NEUTRAL TONES (HARDY)
Tercets with final couplet — instability resolved Four regular quatrains — controlled, rigid,
into unity emotionally contained
Long flowing clauses — mirror unconscious drift ABBA rhyme scheme — cyclical, trapped, no
back together escape
Enjambment — mirrors natural, unforced Cyclical structure — ends where it begins, grief
reconnection as architecture of consciousness
Free verse — unforced, instinctive, not Past tense retrospective narration — pain
constrained by rules preserved unchanged
Title 'winter' — harsh season, swans survive Nature saturated throughout — emotional
against odds, so does love mirror, love drained of all vitality
Monosyllabic diction — plain, blunt, stripped of
feeling
WINTER SWANS (SHEERS) LETTERS FROM YORKSHIRE (DOOLEY)
Tercets with final couplet — instability resolved Tercets throughout — odd, unstable, unusual
into unity for a love poem
Long flowing clauses — mirror unconscious Half rhymes throughout — imperfect
physical reconnection relationship, something missing
Full rhyme in final stanza — 'light'/'night', souls
