love and relationships

love and relationships

1. conflict

   • porphyria's lover
     • 'and strangled her.no pain felt she;'
       • here it shows the conflict in the relationship
   • neutral tones
     • 'and a few leaves lay on the starving sod'
       • shows the conflict of the relationship, that the leaves have died
   • the farmer's bride
     • 'we chased her, flying like a hare'
       • shows conflict between the two, how he is hunting her down
   • winter swans
     • 'boats righting In rough weather'
       • shows how the relationship is like rough weather and there is a lot of conflict between them.
   • singh song
     • 'she effing at my mum'
       • shows how there is conflict between the parents and the wife f the narrator

2. nature

   • climbing my grandfather
     • 'earth-stained earth hand'
       • shows the natural imagery of the mountain
   • winter swans
     • 'the waterlogged earth'
       • showed the natural imagery, metaphorically speaking about how their relationship is drowning and not surviving like they cant grow or breathe
   • eden rock
     • ''her hair, the colour of wheat'
       • again highlighting the natural imagery of the wheat is also kind of highlighting the innocence of their family relationships
   • walking away
     • the repetition of the image of birds and plants seeds to show how the child is growing apart from the father plant
   • follower
     • 'and back into the land'
       • the use of nature in this highlighted by the fact that he is a farmer working the land

3. admiration

   • follower
     • 'an expert'
       • worship him
   • climbing my grandfather
     • 'the nails are splintered and give good purchase'
       • negative turned to positive emphasis on admiration
   • letters from yorkshire
     • 'his knuckles singing'
       • should be bad from sore hands, again makes the negative positive
   • before you were mine
     • 'I knew you could dancelike that'
       • she is admiring her, but the past her
     • 'I wanted the bold girl winking in Portobello'
       • admires her bold bouncy self

4. desire

   • farmer's bride
     • 'oh! my God'
       • he is struggling to resist the urge to have sex with her highlighting the desire for her
   • sonnet 29
     • 'I think of thee!'
       • she is thinking constantly about him
       • she is desiring the man

5. romantic

   • love's philosophy
     • repetition of 'heaven'
       • shows how being with her makes him feel like he is in heaven
   • sonnet 29
     • relationship between the man and women, how much they love eachother
   • winter swans
     • shows romantic ideas, metaphorically with the swans and how they mate forever
   • singh song
     • the romantic side to how they both just anted to have sex constantly and also the connection between them at the end