Poet and Context
Type of Love or Relationship
Poetic Devices
Quotes
Lucky Dip
100

Who wrote ‘Love’s Philosophy’?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

100

What type of love is represented in 'Porphyria's Lover?

Obsessive/Possessive love
100

Which poem finishes with a rhyming couplet while the rest of the poem's stanzas have 3 lines?

'Winter Swans' by Owen Sheers

100

‘I run just one ov my daddy’s shops’

'Singh Song!' by Dalit Nagra

100

‘In silence I grieve’. Which poem is this quotation from and what theme does this relate to?

‘When We Two Parted’. It links to love and loss.

200

Who wrote 'Singh Song!'

Daljit Nagra

200

What type of love is represented in 'When We Two Parted'?

Forbidden Love

200

What is a ‘volta’? Name one poem which uses it.

A sudden change/turning point in a poem e.g. ‘Winter Swans’ where the couple see the swans and come back together etc.

200

‘Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare,’

Sonnet 29 'I think of Thee' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

200

How can ‘Singh Song!’ and ‘Sonnet 29’ be linked?

Romantic love, passion, marital love etc.

300

Who wrote ‘When We Two Parted’ and what was the influence for writing the poem?

Lord Byron and it is based on an affair he’d had with his friend's wife.

300

Which poem represents a parent-child relationship between a mother and a daughter?

'Before you were Mine' by Carol Ann Duffy

300

Analyse the language in this quotation: ‘as we skirted the lake, silent and apart’. Which poem is this from?

‘Winter Swans’ – suggests careful physical movements, conflict and emotional distance.

300

‘We stood by a pond that winter day,’

'Neutral Tones' by Thomas Hardy
300

How would you describe the structure in ‘Neutral Tones’? How effective is it?

Looking at ideas relating to moving from time, past to present, cyclical approach etc.

400

What family member is described in ‘Before You Were Mine’?

The poet's mother.

400

What possible relationship is presented in 'Letters from Yorkshire'?

Parent-child relationship (father and daughter)
400

Which poem uses nature imagery with persuasive effect? What makes it persuasive?

'Love's Philosophy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tries to persuade his prospective love interest that nature is full of couples and that it is a natural state to aspire to for them as well.

400

‘Nothing in the world is single;’

'Love's Philosophy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

400

What is the form used in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’?

Dramatic Monologue

500

How many years difference was there between Thomas Hardy and his second wife Florence Dugdale?

She was 40 years younger than him.

500

How are the characters in 'Winter Swans' presented at the beginning of the poem? (Try to provide a quote)

At the beginning of the poem, the couple are 'silent and apart'.
500

Analyse the language and impact in this quotation: ‘The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing’

The imagery is very bleak. There is an element of antithesis as smiles should be happy and positive but the superlative references death.

500

‘Three Summers since I chose a maid,’

'The Farmer's Bride' by Charlotte Mew

500

Analyse the language and impact in this quotation ‘The sullen wind was soon awake’. Which poem is it from?

'Porphyria's Lover'; use of pathetic fallacy and personification – the wind is seen as childish.

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