LOVES PHILOSOPHY
- uses natural imagery in order to portray love is normal
- shows nature in pairs such as the rivers and the mountain
- shelley was a romantic poet
- romantic movement at the time she wrote it encouraged a focus on the natural world and
human passions which were considered normal
- repetition of ‘clasp’ ‘mingle’ ‘kiss’ highlights the desire for a physical relationship, desperate to
be with her that the repeated words show his unwillingness to wait
- ABAB rhyme scheme which gives the poem a sweet and soft rhythm
- Two half rhymes in each stanza contrasts with the ABAB rhyme scheme and embodies the
lover’s unnatural separation
- personifies ‘sunlight’ with ‘moon beams’ and ‘earth’ with the ‘sea’ as lovers which presents the
physical union with his lover
- love is seen as a ‘sweet emotion’ that mixes with the ‘winds of Heaven’ = the use of religious
imagery elevates his earthy love and presents this obsessed as pure
- manipulative and persuasive tone throughout the poem with the use of the rhetorical question
which convinces ‘what are all these kissing worth if though kiss not me?’
WHEN WE TWO PARTED
- the loss of a lover
- had an affair in real love, could be about it in the poem
- feelings of bitterness regret and loss
- ABAB rhyme scheme which contrasts with the narrators confusion and loss
- repetition of ‘in silence and tears’ gives the poem a cyclical structure and suggests that this
pain will continue to plague him
- ‘In silence I grieve’
- ‘a knell to mine ear’ knell = funeral bell
- ‘her kisses grew colder’
SONNET 29
- extended metaphor which shows the feeling of distance from her lover
- 14 lines with a regular rhyme scheme
- maxes up of two quatrains and a setset
- subverts the norms as she is separated from her own lover by her thoughts, this contrasts with
the poem as sonnets are meant to be about love
- the use of natural imagery through the extended metaphor ‘vines’ suggests her thoughts are
unconstrained and out of control
- at the final setset, the tree shakes off the bondage of the vines - symbolises the person
allowing her love to reassert himself in her life as a physical presence
- as narrator begins to break free from her thoughts, the language and tons of the poem
becomes excited and needy
- the use of explosive verbs and exclamations such as ‘renew’ exemplifies the narrators
reinvigorated desire for her love
- ‘I will not have my thoughts instead of thee’
- uses natural imagery in order to portray love is normal
- shows nature in pairs such as the rivers and the mountain
- shelley was a romantic poet
- romantic movement at the time she wrote it encouraged a focus on the natural world and
human passions which were considered normal
- repetition of ‘clasp’ ‘mingle’ ‘kiss’ highlights the desire for a physical relationship, desperate to
be with her that the repeated words show his unwillingness to wait
- ABAB rhyme scheme which gives the poem a sweet and soft rhythm
- Two half rhymes in each stanza contrasts with the ABAB rhyme scheme and embodies the
lover’s unnatural separation
- personifies ‘sunlight’ with ‘moon beams’ and ‘earth’ with the ‘sea’ as lovers which presents the
physical union with his lover
- love is seen as a ‘sweet emotion’ that mixes with the ‘winds of Heaven’ = the use of religious
imagery elevates his earthy love and presents this obsessed as pure
- manipulative and persuasive tone throughout the poem with the use of the rhetorical question
which convinces ‘what are all these kissing worth if though kiss not me?’
WHEN WE TWO PARTED
- the loss of a lover
- had an affair in real love, could be about it in the poem
- feelings of bitterness regret and loss
- ABAB rhyme scheme which contrasts with the narrators confusion and loss
- repetition of ‘in silence and tears’ gives the poem a cyclical structure and suggests that this
pain will continue to plague him
- ‘In silence I grieve’
- ‘a knell to mine ear’ knell = funeral bell
- ‘her kisses grew colder’
SONNET 29
- extended metaphor which shows the feeling of distance from her lover
- 14 lines with a regular rhyme scheme
- maxes up of two quatrains and a setset
- subverts the norms as she is separated from her own lover by her thoughts, this contrasts with
the poem as sonnets are meant to be about love
- the use of natural imagery through the extended metaphor ‘vines’ suggests her thoughts are
unconstrained and out of control
- at the final setset, the tree shakes off the bondage of the vines - symbolises the person
allowing her love to reassert himself in her life as a physical presence
- as narrator begins to break free from her thoughts, the language and tons of the poem
becomes excited and needy
- the use of explosive verbs and exclamations such as ‘renew’ exemplifies the narrators
reinvigorated desire for her love
- ‘I will not have my thoughts instead of thee’
