GCSE AQA English Poems 2017

GCSE AQA English Poems 2017

1. Follower

   • Quotes
     • His shoulders globed like a full sail strung
       • Detail showing the strength and intricacy of the childs view
     • An expert
       • He respected his father a lot
     • Mapping the furrow exactly
       • Mapping a future for the child perhaps
     • I wanted to grow up and plough
       • Didn't end up like this however
     • Behind me and will not go away
       • Perhaps has died and guilt follows him
       • Reverse from the start

2. When we two parted

   • Quotes
     • Half broken-hearted
       • Suggests she is not upset
       • Could be that they are both a little upset
     • In silence and tears
       • Repeats, start and finish
         • Shows little has changed
           • Perhaps more bitter
     • In silence I grieve
       • Death connotations
     • In secret we met
       • Forbidden relationship

3. Love's Philosophy

   • Quotes
     • And the rivers with the OCean
       • Progression of constant water
     • Nothing in the world is single
       • Exaggeration
         • Persuasive technique
     • If thou kiss not me?
       • Rhetorical question - end of stanza

4. Porphyria's lover

   • Quotes
     • Porphyria worshipped me: suprise made my heart swell
       • Me
         • Self-centered
       • Suprise
         • She is a higher class perhaps
     • And yet God has not said a word!
       • Throaway line
       • Thinks he has done nothing wrong
     • And, last, she sat down by my side
       • Annoyance

5. The farmer's bride

   • Quotes
     • Too young maybe - but more's to do
       • Shows that he married for the farm, not love
     • She sleeps up in the attic
       • Mental seperation and distance
     • Oh! my God!
       • Realisation
     • Wide brown stare
       • Connotations of prey

6. Walking away

   • Quotes
     • Gnaws at my mind still
       • Violent imagery
     • Wrenched from it's orbit, go drifting away
       • Familiarity of the "orbit"
     • It is eighteen years ago, almost to the day
       • He remembers well
     • Pathos of a half-fledged thing set free
       • Innocent, still needs his dad

7. Eden Rock

   • Quotes
     • Crossing is not as hard as you might think
       • Into heaven?
     • I had not thought that it would be like this
       • Could be life without his parents
       • Could be heaven
     • Three suns
       • Holy trinity
       • Light

8. Climbing my grandfather

   • Quotes
     • Trying to get a grip
       • Holding onto the relationship - struggling
     • I rest for a while in the shade
       • Security of the shade
     • Smooth and thick (later on...) wrinkles well-spaced
       • Juxtaposition

9. Sonnet 29

   • Quotes

10. Neutral Tones

    • Quotes

11. Letters from Yorkshire

    • Quotes

12. Mother, any distance

    • Quotes
      • You come to help me
        • Contrasting from start to end
      • Anchor. Kite
        • She is the secure anchor and he is the kite, flying away
      • I reach
      • Endless sky to fall or fly
        • Bird leaving a nest
          • Security of the nest

13. Before you were mine

    • Quotes
      • Maggie McGeeney
        • Poet names her mothers friend but never formally adresses her mum
          • Could show a sensitivity of the subject
      • Marilyn
        • Marilyn Monroe
          • Suggests beauty and fashion
      • Blows round your legs
        • Carefree

14. Winter swans

    • Quotes

15. Singh Song!

    • Quotes
      • Vee share in (x2)
        • Shows the closeness of the relationship
      • My bride (x3)
        • Possession on "my" suggests he is supprised to have her and is very protective of her
      • I say/she say (x4)
        • Sounds almost like a song, shows the lighter side
    • Phonetic spelling
    • Repition