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Poet
Title
Shakespeare
Sonnet 19
Quotes And
Information
Traditional
Shakespearian
sonnet form- Three
quatrains and a
couplet (where the
Volta occurs)
Forbids time ‘one
most heinous crime’
‘O! Carve not with
thy hours my love’s
fair brow’
Shakespeare
Sonnet 116
Couplet- ‘do thy
worse old Time:
despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my
verse ever live
young
...
Love Themes
-Love and time
...
Love overcoming
obstacles
Love as an ideawhat is meant by
love
...
Positive force that
triumphs
Metaphors based on ‘bears it out even to
the edge of doom’
natural elements
love ‘looks on
tempests and is
never shaken’ and
‘is the star to every
wand’ring bark’ – ‘
an ever fixed point’
an essential part of
our physical world,
‘bears it out even to
the edge of doom’
Shakespeare
Sonnet 130
First 12 lines
(quatrains) are
devoted to the main
idea of the poem,
describing his
‘mistress’ in less
than impressive
terms
...
‘My mistress’ eyes
are nothing like the
sun’
‘Coral is far more
red than her lips’
red’
Breasts are not
‘snow’ but ‘dun’
Realistic Love
Criticises the use of
hyperbole used by
other poets
...
Final line suggests
that using
hyperbole, ‘false
compare’, belie(s)
the lover
...
Love based on more
than appearance
...
treads on the
ground’
John Donne
The Sun Rising
‘I think my love as
rare
...
’
‘She’s all states, and
all princes, I’
‘Princes do but play
us; compare to this’
John Donne
The Flea
‘how little’ it is what
she denies him
...
And in this flea, our
Love and Time
Love so important
that people try to
copy
...
Celebration of love
Celebration of
women
Love as the most
important thing
...
Religion
two bloods mingled
be
...
’
John Donne
A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning
‘nor me the weaker
now;
Ti’s true, then learn
how false, fears be’
if she were to sleep
with him ‘yield to
me’ she would lose
no more honour
...
’
‘Endue not yet
A breach, but an
expansion’
‘Thy Soul,, the fixed
foot, makes no
show,
To move, but doth,
if the other Do
...
Always together
...
Isolation
‘Lying together’,
being together and
falsehood in the
marriage
...
Nature metaphor to
describe the ups
and downs of
marriage ‘Outside,
the wind’s
incomplete unrest
...
’
‘Dark towns heap up
on the horizon’ –
Problems
Disillusionment
Failure
Marriage and the
reality of it
...
Obstacles in
marriage
...
Old age and love
‘None of this cares
for us
...
’
‘If ever man were
lov’d by wife, then
thee’
Christina Rossetti
Remember
‘I prize thy love
more than whole
mines of gold
...
Love is the strongest
emotion
...
E
...
Typographic
innovation
‘(dreaming
et
certera, of
Your smile
eyes knees and of
your Etcetera)’
Capitalisation
...
H
...
’
‘Stop all the clocks,
cut off the
telephone’
‘the message, he is
dead’
‘He was my north,
my south, my east,
my west
...
War
Misconceptions of
war provided by
previous
generations
...
Death and love
Outside reflecting
feelings (wanting it
too)
Carol Anne Duffy
Havisham
I thought that love
would last forever, I
was wrong
...
’
‘Beloved sweetheart
bastard’
‘ropes…
...
Mental effects of
love and heartbreak