POETRY
1. Significance of title
2. purpose/intention of poem
3. Diction and how it adds to meaning
4. Mood/atmosphere
5. Tone
6. Figurative devices [metaphor,irony]
7. Sound devices [assonance, alliteration]
8. Structure/form and how it adds to meaning
9. Linking to/ making connections [another poem, image]
,Content:
● Love’s Farewell
● To Athena, from Prison
● Refugee Blues
● I Have My Father’s Voice
● Ulysses
● My Last Duchess
● Lost or Found World
● Dulce et Decorum Est
● Portrait of a Loaf of Bread
● Assassination
● Nobody Loses All The Time
● The Wind Begun To Rock The Grass
● Touch
● Nightsong City
● No Longer Mourn For Me
● The Tenant
● To The Night
● Penguin on the Beach
● The Cry of South Africa
,Love's Farewell
Since there is no help, come let us kiss and part, -
Nay I have done, you get no more of me;
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
That so cleanly I myself can free;
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again,
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath,
When his pulse fails, passion speechless lies,
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And innocence is closing up his eyes,
-- Now if you would'st, when all have given him over,
From death to life you might'st him yet recover!
Michael Drayton
Shakespearean sonnet (Elizabethan era)
Relationships in Shakeperean times [1950s]: Men and friend relationships were very significant, intellectual
relationship
Ironic to call it Love’s Farewell but at the end he doesn’t want to say goodbye at all
Since there is no help - they are done nothing can save them [contradict himself in one line]
“Kiss and part”: Future is still possible for them, as kissing, but also kiss goodbye [2 meanings]
Second line says she is the problem in the relationship [he should stay because she's in the wrong]
Repetition of glad shows he is glad, or over emphasize may mean he's not glad [emphasis shows he's bitter] -
doesn't sound truthful
Cleanly - done and dusted with relationship [but we know relationships just don't end]
Function of the dash, creates a pause
Changes his mind, blaming her
Anger to bitterness, emotions of loss
Parting, moving on, promises cancelled, in agreement / shows permanent separation [shaken hands and done]
Giving instructions, when we meet again, let us pretend that we don’t know each other
No love left for her
Quatrain shows agreement + seriousness of matter
Slight change (volta)
Relationship is dying
(Words are filled with love and strength)
Different to whole poem
Passion may not be gone, but they aren't showing it as much
, There still is faith in the relationship
Doesn’t want to be naive in the relationship
Huge metaphor - poet personifies the love as a living thing that is on death's bed
Pulse fading, show dying love
May be possibility in relationship as he never says is dead [always on the brink of death] - so he's trying to keep a
relationship alive
Rhythm last stanza is like a pulse [alive like relationship] - pulse = you feel, can't see on the outside, just like there is
passion but not they're not showing it
Faith = about god + other person in relationship
Dash has the same function as dash in first line (change of opinion)
Maybe we could reinvigorate our love
Everything between first and last dash shows everything is though [in his head]
When all is done and they said it's over, maybe there's still a chance they can still invigorate their love
Poem personifies love [shows it can move in and out, but usually comes back to its center = love can prevail]
Initially angry but due to love in relationship he creates a resolution
Shows there is no perfect love relationship
Never said “she” in poem - could be between two male friend relationships
1. Significance of title
2. purpose/intention of poem
3. Diction and how it adds to meaning
4. Mood/atmosphere
5. Tone
6. Figurative devices [metaphor,irony]
7. Sound devices [assonance, alliteration]
8. Structure/form and how it adds to meaning
9. Linking to/ making connections [another poem, image]
,Content:
● Love’s Farewell
● To Athena, from Prison
● Refugee Blues
● I Have My Father’s Voice
● Ulysses
● My Last Duchess
● Lost or Found World
● Dulce et Decorum Est
● Portrait of a Loaf of Bread
● Assassination
● Nobody Loses All The Time
● The Wind Begun To Rock The Grass
● Touch
● Nightsong City
● No Longer Mourn For Me
● The Tenant
● To The Night
● Penguin on the Beach
● The Cry of South Africa
,Love's Farewell
Since there is no help, come let us kiss and part, -
Nay I have done, you get no more of me;
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
That so cleanly I myself can free;
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again,
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath,
When his pulse fails, passion speechless lies,
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And innocence is closing up his eyes,
-- Now if you would'st, when all have given him over,
From death to life you might'st him yet recover!
Michael Drayton
Shakespearean sonnet (Elizabethan era)
Relationships in Shakeperean times [1950s]: Men and friend relationships were very significant, intellectual
relationship
Ironic to call it Love’s Farewell but at the end he doesn’t want to say goodbye at all
Since there is no help - they are done nothing can save them [contradict himself in one line]
“Kiss and part”: Future is still possible for them, as kissing, but also kiss goodbye [2 meanings]
Second line says she is the problem in the relationship [he should stay because she's in the wrong]
Repetition of glad shows he is glad, or over emphasize may mean he's not glad [emphasis shows he's bitter] -
doesn't sound truthful
Cleanly - done and dusted with relationship [but we know relationships just don't end]
Function of the dash, creates a pause
Changes his mind, blaming her
Anger to bitterness, emotions of loss
Parting, moving on, promises cancelled, in agreement / shows permanent separation [shaken hands and done]
Giving instructions, when we meet again, let us pretend that we don’t know each other
No love left for her
Quatrain shows agreement + seriousness of matter
Slight change (volta)
Relationship is dying
(Words are filled with love and strength)
Different to whole poem
Passion may not be gone, but they aren't showing it as much
, There still is faith in the relationship
Doesn’t want to be naive in the relationship
Huge metaphor - poet personifies the love as a living thing that is on death's bed
Pulse fading, show dying love
May be possibility in relationship as he never says is dead [always on the brink of death] - so he's trying to keep a
relationship alive
Rhythm last stanza is like a pulse [alive like relationship] - pulse = you feel, can't see on the outside, just like there is
passion but not they're not showing it
Faith = about god + other person in relationship
Dash has the same function as dash in first line (change of opinion)
Maybe we could reinvigorate our love
Everything between first and last dash shows everything is though [in his head]
When all is done and they said it's over, maybe there's still a chance they can still invigorate their love
Poem personifies love [shows it can move in and out, but usually comes back to its center = love can prevail]
Initially angry but due to love in relationship he creates a resolution
Shows there is no perfect love relationship
Never said “she” in poem - could be between two male friend relationships
