Love Philosophy context:
member of romantic movement
romantics believed in the power of nature
Love Philosophy semantic field of embrace:
"clasp"
"mingle"
"kiss"
Love Philosophy structure:
strong ABAB rhyme scheme,
although there is a place in each stanza where the rhyme isn’t exact, reflecting how all things in nature come together except for the poet and his loved one.
Love Philosophy structure 2:
structures each stanza like a philosophical argument
starts with evidence then ends with rhetoricals "why not I with thine?"
does this to be persuasive
Love Philosophy metaphor
natural personification shown in
"No sister flower would be forgiven if it disdain'd its brother"
Metaphor adds depth to the speaker character by suggesting his intentions are romantic not sexual
Shelley blurs boundaries between humanity and nature suggesting their relationship is inevitable as a law of nature
Porphyria's Lover context:
fallen women
Victorian era
porphyria lover social commentary commenting on outdated views
Porphyria's Lover semantic field of destruction:
'sullen', 'vex', 'break', 'tore'
Porphyria's Lover structure:
strict ABABB scheme.
Represent the intentionality behind the speaker's portrayed madness
Poem takes form of dramatic monologue
This is for Browning's social commentary commenting on outdated victorian views on women
Porphyria's Lover metaphor:
"glided in porphyria"
supernatural connotations of "gilded", porphyria viewed as inhuman
this and "gay feast restrain" which alludes to consumption and women being objects for men to use.
alternatively , inhuman Mirrors the inhuman 'fallen women'
When We Two Parted context:
famous
scandalous
bare affairs
When We Two Parted semantic field of death:
"a knell"
"pale grew thy cheek"
"colder"
tactile imagery acts a metaphor to a dead body
knell - auditory image
When We Two Parted structure:
Cyclical narrative
implying speaker sadness is still ongoing
regular rhyme scheme ABABCDCD further reinforces this ongoing sadness
repetitive rhythm demonstrates regularity endless sadness
When We Two Parted metaphor:
Sibilance
"secret," "silence," "spirit," and "deceive."
the s sound is associated with whispering showing the speaker is talking about affair - link to Byron celebrity affairs
alternatively the s sound is associated with snake hissing link to deception, satan snake garden of eden
Walking Away context:
had a son who went boarding skl
Walking Away semantic field of space:
"wrenched from its orbit. go drifting away"
"satellite"
contrast between wrench and drift, powerlessness
Walking Away structure:
uses bare dashes
effect of mirroring the shift in time and the seasonal change
"eighteen years ago" specific temporal dexis emphasise the effect of moving away has on poet
Walking Away metaphor:
"winged seed loosened from its parent stem"
"gnaws at my mind still"