Poetry
Themes
When we two parted Love’s philosophy Winter Swans
❏ Romantic love- loss ❏ Romantic love- longing ❏ Romantic love- fulfillment
❏ Distance ❏ Desire and longing ❏ Distance
❏ Death ❏ Nature ❏ Nature
Porphyria’s lover Eden rock Mother, any distance
❏ Romantic love- longing ❏ Family relationships- strong ❏ Family relationships-
❏ Romantic love- fulfillment bonds independence
❏ Desire and longing ❏ Distance ❏ Family relationships- strong
❏ Death ❏ Death bonds
❏ Memory ❏ Distance
❏ Getting older
Sonnet 29- I think of thee Neutral tones Farmer’s bride
❏ Romantic love- longing ❏ Romantic love- loss ❏ Romantic love- longing
❏ Romantic love- fulfillment ❏ Distance ❏ Romantic love- loss
❏ Distance ❏ Death ❏ Distance
❏ Desire and longing ❏ Memory ❏ Desire and longing
❏ Nature ❏ Nature ❏ Nature
Before you were mine Letters from Yorkshire Follower
❏ Family relationships- strong ❏ Family relationships- strong ❏ Family relationships- strong
bonds bonds bonds
❏ Family relationships- ❏ Family relationships- ❏ Family relationships-
admiration admiration admiration
❏ Family relationships- ❏ Distance ❏ Desire and longing
independence ❏ Desire and longing ❏ Getting older
❏ Family relationships- ❏ Nature ❏ Memory
rebellion ❏ Nature
❏ Desire and longing
❏ Getting older
❏ Memory
Walking away Singh Song Climbing my grandfather
❏ Family relationships- ❏ Romantic love- fulfillment ❏ Family relationships- strong
independence ❏ Family relationships- bonds
❏ Family relationships- strong rebellion ❏ Family relationships-
bonds admiration
❏ Distance ❏ Getting older
❏ Getting older ❏ Nature
❏ Memory
Themes and quotes
,Romantic Love- loss Family Relationships- admiration
When we two parted: Follower:
“knell” “full sail”
“vows are broken” “mapping the furrow exactly”
“secret” “follow”
Neutral tones: Before You Were Mine:
“love deceives” “thousand eyes”
“grey” “bold girl”
“white” “clear as scent”
Romantic Love- destruction Family Relationships- independence
Porphyria’s Lover: Walking Away:
“heart fit to break” “satellite”
“weak” “wrenched from its orbit” “half-fledged”
The Farmer’s bride: Mother, Any Distance:
“soft young down” “space- walk”
“oh! My God” “breaking point”
“the brown of her- her eyes, her hair, her hair!” “pinch”
Romantic Love- fulfillment Family Relationships- rebellious
Sonnet 29- I think of thee! : Singh Song:
“deep joy” “Daddy’s shop”
“new air” “not to hav a break”
Singh Song: “in all di colours of Punjabi”
“I do di lock” “My bride”
“Vi made luv like vee rowing thru Putney”
“baby”
Winter Swans:
“like boats righting in rough weather”
“mate for life”
Romantic Love- longing Family Relationships- bonding
Love’s Philosophy: Climbing my Grandfather:
“nothing in the world is single” “without a rope or net”
“clasp” “smiling mouth”
“kiss” Eden Rock:
Sonnet 29- i think of thee!: “waiting”
“nought to see” “her hair… takes on the light “ ''tin cups painted
“hides” blue”
“wild vines”
Memory Nature Distance
, Walking away: Love’s philosophy: Winter Swans:
“eighteen years ago, almost to “nothing in the world is single” “silent and apart”
the day” “mingle” “two days of rain”
“touch lines- new ruled” “mix” “given their all”
“wrenched” Winter Swans: “halved”
Neutral tones: “halved themselves” Walking away”
“edged with greyish leaves” “like boats righting in rough “wilderness”
“wrong” weather” “selfhood begins with a walking
“God- curst” Farmer’s bride: away”
Eden Rock: “all things human” Letters from Yorkshire:
“old H.P sauce bottle” “slight as a tree” “icy miles”
“light” “hare” “souls tap out messages”
Follower: Neutral tones: Sonnet 29- I think of thee:
“shoulders globed like a full sail “white” “burst, shattered everywhere”
strung” “grey” “vines”
“bright steel pointed sock” “ominous bird”
Death Getting older Desire and longing
Porphyria's lover: Climbing my grandfather: Porphyria’s lover:
“moment” “slowly open and close” “yellow hair”
“perfectly pure” “Old stitches” “smooth white shoulder”
“all night long” Follower: “mine”
“burning kiss” “yapping always” Sonnet 29- I think of thee:
“one wish” Before you were mine: “Wild vines”
Eden Rock: “Bold girl” “insphere”
“waiting” Mother, any distance: “burst, shattered”
“lit by three suns” “back to base” “breathe… a new air”
When we two parted: “something has to give” Letters from Yorkshire:
“pale” “the last one hundredth of an “more real”
“cold” inch” “breaking ice on a waterbutt”
“knell” “feeding words onto a blank
“sorrow” screen”
“silence and tears” “other world”
Follower:
“grow up and plough”
“falling”
“tripping”
“broad shadow”
When we two parted:
Themes
When we two parted Love’s philosophy Winter Swans
❏ Romantic love- loss ❏ Romantic love- longing ❏ Romantic love- fulfillment
❏ Distance ❏ Desire and longing ❏ Distance
❏ Death ❏ Nature ❏ Nature
Porphyria’s lover Eden rock Mother, any distance
❏ Romantic love- longing ❏ Family relationships- strong ❏ Family relationships-
❏ Romantic love- fulfillment bonds independence
❏ Desire and longing ❏ Distance ❏ Family relationships- strong
❏ Death ❏ Death bonds
❏ Memory ❏ Distance
❏ Getting older
Sonnet 29- I think of thee Neutral tones Farmer’s bride
❏ Romantic love- longing ❏ Romantic love- loss ❏ Romantic love- longing
❏ Romantic love- fulfillment ❏ Distance ❏ Romantic love- loss
❏ Distance ❏ Death ❏ Distance
❏ Desire and longing ❏ Memory ❏ Desire and longing
❏ Nature ❏ Nature ❏ Nature
Before you were mine Letters from Yorkshire Follower
❏ Family relationships- strong ❏ Family relationships- strong ❏ Family relationships- strong
bonds bonds bonds
❏ Family relationships- ❏ Family relationships- ❏ Family relationships-
admiration admiration admiration
❏ Family relationships- ❏ Distance ❏ Desire and longing
independence ❏ Desire and longing ❏ Getting older
❏ Family relationships- ❏ Nature ❏ Memory
rebellion ❏ Nature
❏ Desire and longing
❏ Getting older
❏ Memory
Walking away Singh Song Climbing my grandfather
❏ Family relationships- ❏ Romantic love- fulfillment ❏ Family relationships- strong
independence ❏ Family relationships- bonds
❏ Family relationships- strong rebellion ❏ Family relationships-
bonds admiration
❏ Distance ❏ Getting older
❏ Getting older ❏ Nature
❏ Memory
Themes and quotes
,Romantic Love- loss Family Relationships- admiration
When we two parted: Follower:
“knell” “full sail”
“vows are broken” “mapping the furrow exactly”
“secret” “follow”
Neutral tones: Before You Were Mine:
“love deceives” “thousand eyes”
“grey” “bold girl”
“white” “clear as scent”
Romantic Love- destruction Family Relationships- independence
Porphyria’s Lover: Walking Away:
“heart fit to break” “satellite”
“weak” “wrenched from its orbit” “half-fledged”
The Farmer’s bride: Mother, Any Distance:
“soft young down” “space- walk”
“oh! My God” “breaking point”
“the brown of her- her eyes, her hair, her hair!” “pinch”
Romantic Love- fulfillment Family Relationships- rebellious
Sonnet 29- I think of thee! : Singh Song:
“deep joy” “Daddy’s shop”
“new air” “not to hav a break”
Singh Song: “in all di colours of Punjabi”
“I do di lock” “My bride”
“Vi made luv like vee rowing thru Putney”
“baby”
Winter Swans:
“like boats righting in rough weather”
“mate for life”
Romantic Love- longing Family Relationships- bonding
Love’s Philosophy: Climbing my Grandfather:
“nothing in the world is single” “without a rope or net”
“clasp” “smiling mouth”
“kiss” Eden Rock:
Sonnet 29- i think of thee!: “waiting”
“nought to see” “her hair… takes on the light “ ''tin cups painted
“hides” blue”
“wild vines”
Memory Nature Distance
, Walking away: Love’s philosophy: Winter Swans:
“eighteen years ago, almost to “nothing in the world is single” “silent and apart”
the day” “mingle” “two days of rain”
“touch lines- new ruled” “mix” “given their all”
“wrenched” Winter Swans: “halved”
Neutral tones: “halved themselves” Walking away”
“edged with greyish leaves” “like boats righting in rough “wilderness”
“wrong” weather” “selfhood begins with a walking
“God- curst” Farmer’s bride: away”
Eden Rock: “all things human” Letters from Yorkshire:
“old H.P sauce bottle” “slight as a tree” “icy miles”
“light” “hare” “souls tap out messages”
Follower: Neutral tones: Sonnet 29- I think of thee:
“shoulders globed like a full sail “white” “burst, shattered everywhere”
strung” “grey” “vines”
“bright steel pointed sock” “ominous bird”
Death Getting older Desire and longing
Porphyria's lover: Climbing my grandfather: Porphyria’s lover:
“moment” “slowly open and close” “yellow hair”
“perfectly pure” “Old stitches” “smooth white shoulder”
“all night long” Follower: “mine”
“burning kiss” “yapping always” Sonnet 29- I think of thee:
“one wish” Before you were mine: “Wild vines”
Eden Rock: “Bold girl” “insphere”
“waiting” Mother, any distance: “burst, shattered”
“lit by three suns” “back to base” “breathe… a new air”
When we two parted: “something has to give” Letters from Yorkshire:
“pale” “the last one hundredth of an “more real”
“cold” inch” “breaking ice on a waterbutt”
“knell” “feeding words onto a blank
“sorrow” screen”
“silence and tears” “other world”
Follower:
“grow up and plough”
“falling”
“tripping”
“broad shadow”
When we two parted:
