Themes of conflict

Themes of conflict

1. Sonnet 43

   • No themes of conflict for the majority
   • "I love thee with a love I seemed to lose"
     • Shows emotional conflict maybe

2. The Voice

   • It's about a lady who gets in touch with an old boyfriend saying that she's changed
     • "You are not as you were"
     • "changed from the one who was all to me"
       • He knows she's changed, but doesn't know if that's what he wants because she was all to him
   • "Through the thorn"
     • Physical conflict
   • "But as at first, when our day was fair"
     • Used to be good, but now there not

3. Time

   • Everything is just time, yet it still exists, all your memories are time
     • Could cause emotional conflict in the reader as it can change your view on life

4. First Love

   • You lose your heart to the one you love
     • "My heart has left it's dwelling place and can return no more"
       • Emotional conflict
         • While love may seem amazing, it can actually be bad
       • He lost his heart to her
         • "Stole my heart away

5. Marrysong

   • Love is constantly strange and changing
     • Emotional conflict
       • One day love can be great and the it can be terrible
         • "Cool water laughing where the day before there were stones in her voice."

6. Report to wordsworth

   • Physical conflict
     • "Smothered"
     • "Dying"
     • "Sunk"
     • Struggle
     • "Choked"
     • "Kill"

7. Dover beach

   • War conflict
     • "Ignorant armies clash by night"
   • Emotional conflict
     • "Land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light."
       • It seems so beautiful, yet the world is actually a bad place