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| Question | Answer |
| Theme: Loss & Death On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë On the Death of Anne Brontë | Idea/Form: Both eulogies by C. AB focused on the little hope remaining & grief that is worse than death. EJ reflects grief in a more wild grief, in the style of Emily. Structure: start with death, progress to aspects of grief. Tone - Emily, tempestuous, Anne, resigned. Language: E 'pierced with grief' and 'anguish' A 'the cloud, the stillness' |
| Theme: Death & Loss Peaceful Death & Painful Life Stanzas | Idea: Both poems have similar tone and suggest that grief for the dead is wrong. Structure: B one long sentence + regular rhythm to reflect the endlessness of life and suffering. E divided into stanzas with upbeat ABAB & clear throught progression of thought, last stanza wishing for death. Language: E nature used to reflect life and death B more focus on 'Dead Alive' who 'sees no Hope'. |
| Theme: Loss & Death A Reminiscence A Death Scene | Idea: ADS from Augusta describes death of Edward (lover?). AR is after the death of a loved one and her memory of him, both showing a grieving woman. Structure- ADS progresses from mourning & wishing he could live longer to letting go. AR, ends with happiness of memories Language- ADS uses nature to remember the surroundings. Nature also used in AR to highlit divide between the 'frozen" Earth and warmth of memory. |
| Theme: Loss & Death The Consolation Last Lines | Ideas: consolation is loss in loneliness and isolation not grief, whereas last lines is a frank admission of Anne about her death. Structure & Language- TC begins in darkness, with drawn out 'w' sounds to fining 'my hope, my comfort'. LL are going towards darkness: simple Lang focused on feelings |
| Religion: A Prayer The Penitent | Idea + Form: TP (Branwell?) shows A describing and approving of sinners repenting their sins. AP more autobiographical & describes her self doubt as a 'weak, wretched sinner' Structure & Language: TP ends with hope of 'joy in heaven'. AP contrasts weak humans with powerful God. |
| Theme: Freedom To A Wreath of Snow The Captive Dove | Ideas: TAWOS, an Ode poem, reflects a transcendent experience that she as a 'prisoner' in a mortal body felt. The snow represents this, similarly to how A uses a dove to show how trapped she feels. Structure- Emily has comfort by the end, Anne is still 'neglected, and alone' Language- both use nature to reflect a greater idea that is 'shining through darkness' |
| Theme: Freedom The Arbour The Old Stoic | Idea: TOS suggests that freedom should be valued above all, whilst TA suggests there is freedom in memory but she is still 'confined by such a chain'. Structure: E throught progresses to seeing freedom in death whereas A still cannot see to 'future bliss' Language: TOS, simple Lang, TA personifies nature. |
| Theme: Friendship Love is like a Wild Rose Briar Song: 'O between distress and pleasure' | Ideas: are completely opposite. Rose Briar suggests that friendship is long lasting and more durable than love, whereas Song States 'wretched hearts in vain would treasure/ friendships joys' Structure: Rose Briar processes with the seasons to reflect long lasting friendship, song centres around a journey for love, not friendship. Language: like the tone, song is more despairing, Rose Briar is lighter like the ABAB rhyme scheme. |
| Theme: Nature Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day Loud without the wind was roaring | Idea: Loud using nature to describe homesickness, even the summer cannot replace the moors and her siblings. LC focuses more on nature and personifies to be more wild. Structure- LC stanza 1) wanting freedom 2) what she sees 3) what wants to see. E poem dele ops into her memories - nature is the trigger. |
| Theme: Nature Penaenmawr Will the day be bright or cloudy? | Idea: P asks for the strength of nature as it has withstood a 'thousand storms', seems romantic. E is pathetic fallacy and how weather reflects your personality. Structure: Will the day has different stanzas for 'options' Language: P connotes strength and heroism, WTD uses sibsilance to reflect the 'rain sounds'. Creates Different atmosphere. |
| Theme: Nature Early Wrapt in Slumber Deep The blue bell is the sweetest flower | Idea: The bluebell suggests the unparalleled beauty of the flower that conjures memories and emotions. EW suggests equality in nature and beauty found in the dark when no one sees it. Structure: EW first half indoors, second half outside, and it's beauty. Language: 'slight and stately' power of bluebell. Personification of nature in EW. |
| Theme: Fantasy World(s) Come Hither Child A.E and R.C | Idea & Language: A.E & R.C shows that like 'Angels care', love can beat 'evil fortune'. CHC too shows power, but that of music in reviving memories, the tone more gothic and dark than previous poem which is more simple in language and message. |
| Theme: Fantasy World(s) F.De Samara to A.G.A Augusta | Idea: both reflect undying nature of love despite being unwanted or at a distance. Structure: samara shows extreme love that results in death 'but, love I cannot kill' whereas throughout Augusta dedicated throughout to her beauty and his love 'beam'st brightly on'. Language- samara feature gothic/dark imagery- how we sees love (and AGA). Augusta contrasts his love (compared to the ocean) with her still and endless beauty. |
| Theme: Homesickness The Teachers Monologue The Bluebell | Idea: Bluebell awareness 'childhoods hours' which are a 'prize' compared to 'toil and strife' in adulthood. TM describes the loneliness & longing for home and family 'To toil....Is such my fate?' Structure & Language: C feeling begins 'still and untroubled' ending 'aching grief, so void and lone'. Bluebell initially 'softened my heart with bliss' then finally 'made me mourn', for the harshness of life. |
| Theme: Homesickness Lines Written at Thorp Green Home | Idea: Home, even when 'usuped' with weeds is desirable above a 'mansion high'. Similarly, winter at home preferable to summer away. Structure: both end with a passionate cry for 'home!' Language: throughout TG she links happiness and winter is similar to Home 'velvet lawns' juxtaposed with 'knotted grass neglected' |
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