Anthology Poetry Themes Chart Life lessons IfPBB Blessing SFMT Sonnet 116 LBDSM The Tyger Remember Half past Two Hide and Seek War Photographer My Last Duchess Half Caste Piano Do not go gentle into the goodnight Poem at 39 Different forms of Love Masculinity Relationships Death God War and destruction Pressing social iss How to Organize Your Answer The structure of your answer is extremely important for this question: it will determine whether you successfully compare the two poems or not, which is worth half of the marks available in this question (15 marks). Compara tive Point Start your paragraph by immediately identifying a similarity/difference between the poems. Evidence from Poem 1 Support the point you made previously by referencing Poem 1. Analysis of Poem 1 Identify the techniques used (language and/or form and/or structure) and the explain the effect(s) Evidence from Poem 2 Now cross-reference to Poem 2 Analysis of Poem 2 Identify the technique(s) used (language and/or form and/or structure) and explain the effect(s) Questions Re-read “Remember” Compare the ways the writers present ideas of a significant other in Remember and one other poem from the anthology. You should make reference to language, form and structure. Support your answer with examples from the poems. Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann'd: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad. Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. Remember A speaker nearing their death La Belle Dame Sans Merci An unnamed speaker and a Speaker Knight-at-arms nearing his death Deceptive nature of love Main Idea The sacrificial nature of love Love as a form of death The concept of love will be gone in the event of a tragic situation Role of the Advises the significant The significant other is the faery who is fair and significant other to be happy even after the departure of beautiful, but she is also other the speaker destructive as she brings the death to the Knight Death is compared to the Metaphors Death is referred to as a journey beautiful but deadly fair lady. In the event of a death, The images of flowers are Imagery the love shall leave: used in an ironic manner. darkness and corruption “Roses are withering, and the Lily reflects a fever” The Knight looks pale meaning he is nearing his death Structure Petrarchan sonnet style Lyrical Ballad: Ballad were with a different rhyme mostly used to describe a scheme in the sestet romantic encounter but here it is used in an ironic manner to capture the tragedy of the Knight Iambic pentameter Iambic tetrameter is used Meter with a shorter last line in each stanza Rhyme Speaker Main Idea Role of the significant other The sestet takes a different rhyming pattern Remember A speaker nearing their death The sacrificial nature of love The concept of love will be gone in the event of a tragic situation Advises the significant other to be happy even after the departure of the speaker A consistent rhyme throughout the poem (abcb) Sonnet 116 Shakespeare Unconditional love Love as a permanent, unchangeable factor Provides a set of qualities the significant other should have Metaphors Death is referred to as a journey Love is referred to as a star that can guide a journey Imagery In the event of a death, the love shall leave: darkness and corruption Petrarchan sonnet style with a different rhyme scheme in the sestet Iambic pentameter Love is fixed and permanent: it will last even though the physical beauty disappears. Shakespearean sonnet style with the rhyming couplet The sestet takes a different rhyming pattern The rhyme is well kept throughout the poem Structure Meter Rhyme Iambic pentamer with extra syllables in some lines The poems Remember and Sonnet 116, present unique details of a significant other. While both poems acknowledge the importance of significant others in Rosetti’s the significant other is given the freedom to forget the once shared love, upon the demise of their loved one while Shakespeare highlights how the significant other would not change when presented with any kind of challenge. Using these ideas both poets explore the different forms of love experienced by the entire of humanity. One of the main ideas present in Rosetti’s poem is the fact that love can be forgotten if it causes unhappiness: “you should forget and smile’ demonstrates how Rosetti’s significant other is given more autonomy and freedom to be seen as an individual, not part of their lover hence they are being asked to do what is best for them. Shakespeare, on the other hand, writes “Love's not Time's fool” capturing how to love transcendent time and space. He also mentions that love is an “an ever-fixed mark” hinting at his expectations from a significant other. Shakespeare expects that his significant other would be true to their love and would not change. These contrasting ideas capture how the poets view the concept of love. While Shakespeare’s request is idealistic, Rosetti’s takes a more practical approach.
