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Anthology essay plans

The Manhunt and Quickdraw
Paragraph 1
Manhunt –difficulties in communication
• “Tightened and closed,” “Only then,” repetition of “and,” he is too fragile she
is weary of triggering something that will make him upset and so is very
gentle and isn’t very close to him
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They are not face to face
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• “Widened the search,” Not a physical battle but a personal one to
metaphorically find her husband again
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• “Ambled,” highlighted by enjambment before and shows they don’t care
• “Spouting six year old,” sibilance shows Forster is creating an age gap
between the two thus brother is burden
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Sibilance of “spared his soul sister,” shows bitterness
• “Either early or late,” could be seen as Macbeth reference – haunted by own
guilt – wishes wicked on sister – angry frustration
• “C” alliteration gives poem lyrical feeling – more anger and energy
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Possibly older brother is better than
younger as he has the more valuable object
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Sister Maude – distance to lover and to sister
• Repetition of “sister,” could perhaps show it was once a close relationship
but now has spread and enhances the severity of what she did
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Paragraph 3 guilt and regret, anger and betrayal
Brothers- guilt and regret
• Presents the little brother as innocent and so makes the writers actions seem
worse
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He wishes he could close the
distance
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• “spring towards the gate” his brother is running quickly to try and catch up
with them but they “ran on” which emphasises how he is getting away from
his brother
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“bide you with
death and sin” cursing her sister
• “he’d never have looked at you” Maude jealous, spiteful comment
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In Paris With You and To His Coy Mistress

Paragraph 1 – control of audience (the girls they’re directing the poems
towards), he is harsh
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• “do you mind if we do not go to the louvre” looks like he is considering her
but he is not, he is bitter
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To His Coy Mistress – self – centeredness, trying to control her
• “Times winged Chariot hurrying near,” metaphor – time is running out so he
has to get her to sleep with him and that is all he wants – selfish, pressuring
her
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• “But,” syllogistic argument as but highlights his urgent desire for her
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• “Now let us sport,” could show his only desire is not their relationship but in
fact their sexual one – selfish “now” highlights control
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His intentions with her are clear
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• “You,” repetition shows that she is not an after-thought because he is
thinking about her but he could only be doing it for sexual purposes
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Paragraph 3 – frustration
In Paris with you – Weary frustration
• “Earful…tearful,” echoed internal rhyme – emotions after previous
relationship
• “Sod off to the sodding,” sibilance – frustration
• long vowel sounds “downed a drink,” plosive shows anger – slurry, drunk,
upset
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“tear our pleasures” refers to sex but impatience
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“she
turned afraid”
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Something has
come over her, a bad experience, possibly her being forced into a marriage?
• “more to do…than bide and woo” he was too busy to court her and to get to
know her and love her
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Manhunt:
• “only then” difficulty with trust and with loving communication
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Paragraph 2: frustration with partner
Farmers bride:
• “we caught her” everyone thinks her behaviour is abnormal
• “whats Christmas time without there be some other in the house than we!”
refers to how he wants children but she is unwilling
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• “hurt” “heart” the consonance highlights his emotional pain and she is
frustrated that this is how he feel
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• “little frightened fay” delicate imagery
• Described as prey throughout “leveret” “mouse”
Manhunt:
• “trace”, “explore” “handle and hold” “attend” very gentle actions which show
how careful she has to be with him and how fragile he is
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• “grazed heart”, “punctured lung”, “porcelain collar bone” shows his fragility
in physical form
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• Makes the poem seem timeless, her love is permanent and profound
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• Food of the Caribbean emphasises how her mother was a nourishing
presence “replenishing replenishing”
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Paragraph 2: structure
Ghazal:
• Separated stanzas give range of different images in quick succession so
makes poem playful but intense
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Praise song:
• Doesn’t develop a narrative and is unpunctuated so suggests good memories
are merged into one warm picture
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Paragraph 3: Language of love
Ghazal:
• She seems to love to the point of obsession
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“serpents tail, charmer” she wants him to be teasing like a
snake and in control
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“rise
and warm and mantling”
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She is comforting to her
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The memories she has of her are warm and joyful
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“then woo me” “use your charm”
“subdue me” “pursue me?” she wants him to love her intensely and
passionately
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Sonnet 43:
• “let me count the ways!” she loves her partner in every possible way
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• Repetition of “I love thee” is always followed by a different idea which shows
that her love encompasses many aspects and she loves all of him
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• She asks for nothing in return, it is unconditional “I love thee freely”
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“use your charm” “subdue me”
“pursue me” “every night renew me”
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Anaphoras are commonly used in the bible so the poem
is made to sound like a prayer
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“by sun and candlelight” “feeling out of sight” sense of awe
when she thinks about her love
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Her love seems
morally and spiritually right
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She conjures a new image in each stanza “I
am the grass”, “You are the rhyme”, “venomous tongue” which presents her
love in many different ways
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It
shows that she loves him with the emotions of an entire life from childhood
to past death
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“I love thee with the
love I seemed to lose with my lost saints”
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“For
thousands of seconds” it sounds like a long time, gives a sense of time
slowing down, it seems like more by counting in the smallest division
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They cherish the time they spend
together, it is valuable
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” Single word sentence brings the focus onto the
single moment that the poet is trying to capture
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Love isn’t at mercy with time, it
has no end
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“Love’s not Time’s fool” which directly contrasts with “Love’s time’s beggar”
from Hour because they say exact opposites
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Paragraph 2: worth of love
Hour:
• Described in the terms of valuable objects such as “treasure” and “gold”
“makes love rich” which makes it seem like it is important and sacred and
should be held on to
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Sonnet 116:
• Love is too important to be able to determine its worth, it is too important to
be able to give it a fixed value
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Shows that he
regards it very highly and that it is irreplaceable
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Paragraph 3: they are both sonnets
Hour:
• Addressed to the lover, makes it seem direct and intimate
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It sounds dreamy through “the midas light” “nothing dark
will end our shining hour”
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Final couplet links to the personified images of love and time – made up of
monosyllabic words which ends it forcefully and directly
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All four quatrains discuss love being unchanging in different
ways and using different imagery
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“if this be error…I never writ nor no
man ever loved”
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Nettles and Born Yesterday
Paragraph 1: Tenderness
Nettles:
• He comforts and takes care of his son who was hurt
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“went outside and slashed in fury” emphasises the harshness of
his reaction and the lengths he will go to to protect his son
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Born Yesterday:
• Larkin expresses genuinely good feelings for the new baby
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“should it prove possible, well, you’re a lucky girl”, “may you
be dull - if that is what a skilled, vigilant…catching of happiness is called” this shows
that if she is beautiful and “running off a spring of innocence and love” then it won’t
harm her but it is not what truly matters
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Paragraph 2: anger in nettles and cynicism in born yesterday
Nettles:
• The father is angry in nettles that his son has been hurt because of them and it links
to the theme of protection
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Military language such as “funeral pyre” “spears” and “parade”, “recruits” used to
describe the nettles as vicious soldiers which are out to hurt his son
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He uses sceptical and dismissive
language to describe what extraordinary gifts and virtues are worth
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“Not
the usual stuff” dismissal, shows that his wish is going to be very different, “they will
all wish you that” shows that everyone says the same and it is just to be nice and for
the show, but he is going to be upfront and honest about how the world really is
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Paragraph 3: the future
Nettles:
• The father knows that his son will experience a lot of emotional pain in his life as
well as the physical pain that he experiences now
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His inability to destroy the nettles is a metaphor that the father will not
always be able to protect his son from the pains in life
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“My son would often feel sharp
wounds again” shows that Scannell knows that he will not be able to prevent his son
from getting hurt again, this also relates to emotional pain such as heartbreak in the
future
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He highlights that
ordinariness is important and that it is not a bad thing
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Nettles and Harmonium

Paragraph 1: sadness
Nettles:
• Shown by his helplessness of not being able to help his son
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General melancholy languishment of his son growing up
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“My son would often feel sharp wounds again” regret and upset that
his child will be hurt again
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“too starved of breath” a sudden panic
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Paragraph 2: protection
Nettles:
• The father is violent with the nettles to protect his son from ever being hurt
and is very wary of helping his son
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Harmonium:
• The father is very blunt and direct about his death
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He is humorous about it but the narrator
does not respond well at all
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Also shown by “smokers fingers and
dottled thumbs” the little details which make his father who he is
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“My son would
often feel sharp wounds again” and “that regiment of spite”
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“can’t help but say”
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This
is enhanced by the memories referenced which they shared together “where
father and son each in their time had opened their throats” shows a shared
activity

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