Love & Relationships Anthology — Quotes

15 quotes with full 6-part analysis

1
STAGNATE

A knell to mine ear; / Thy very name struck my heart

AUDITORY IMAGERY / SEMANTIC FIELD OF DEATHREGULAR FORM AS EMOTIONAL CONTAINMENT

Lord Byron · When We Two Parted

2
STAGNATE

And the sunlight clasps the earth / And the moonbeams kiss the sea: / What is al…

RHETORICAL ARGUMENT / NATURAL IMAGERY AS EVIDENCELISTING / ACCUMULATION & RHETORICAL QUESTION

Percy Bysshe Shelley · Love's Philosophy

3
REGRESS

I found / A thing to do, and all her hair / In one long yellow string I wound / …

ENJAMBMENT & CASUAL REGISTER — NORMALISED VIOLENCEPATHETIC FALLACY & STRUCTURAL INVERSION

Robert Browning · Porphyria's Lover

4
PROGRESS

I do not think of thee — I am too near thee.

EXTENDED NATURAL METAPHOR — VINE AND TREETHE PETRARCHAN VOLTA — STRUCTURAL REVERSAL

Elizabeth Barrett Browning · Sonnet 29 – 'I think of thee!'

5
STAGNATE

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing / Alive enough to have strength to…

OXYMORON / PARADOX — LIVING DEATHPATHETIC FALLACY — DRAINED LANDSCAPE

Thomas Hardy · Neutral Tones

6
STAGNATE

Oh! my God! the down, / The soft young down of her

DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE — UNRELIABLE NARRATIONANIMAL IMAGERY — THE BRIDE AS WILD CREATURE

Charlotte Mew · The Farmer's Bride

7
PROGRESS

love is proved in the letting go.

SIMILE — 'LIKE A SATELLITE WRENCHED FROM ITS ORBIT'EPIGRAMMATIC FINAL LINE

Cecil Day-Lewis · Walking Away

8
PROGRESS

Is his life more real because he digs his garden?

RHETORICAL QUESTION & SELF-INTERROGATIONJUXTAPOSITION — RURAL/URBAN, PHYSICAL/INTELLECTUAL

Maura Dooley · Letters from Yorkshire

9
PROGRESS

I had not thought that it would be like this.

PRECISE DOMESTIC DETAILALLEGORY — CROSSING THE STREAM

Charles Causley · Eden Rock

10
REGRESS

But today / It is my father who keeps stumbling / Behind me, and will not go awa…

STRUCTURAL REVERSAL / ROLE INVERSIONPRECISE AGRICULTURAL VOCABULARY

Seamus Heaney · Follower

11
PROGRESS

Anchor. Kite.

EXTENDED METAPHOR — MEASURING TAPE AS UMBILICAL CORDFORM — THE NEAR-SONNET

Simon Armitage · Mother, any distance

12
STAGNATE

I'm not here yet. The thought of me doesn't occur / in the ballroom

POSSESSIVE TONE / TITLE AS OWNERSHIPTIME MANIPULATION — RETROSPECTIVE IMAGINATION

Carol Ann Duffy · Before You Were Mine

13
PROGRESS

they halved themselves in the water, / icebergs of white feather

PATHETIC FALLACY & NATURAL SYMBOLISMSTRUCTURAL SHIFT — TERCETS TO COUPLET

Owen Sheers · Winter Swans

14
PROGRESS

my bride / she effing at my mum / in all di colours of Punjabi

CODE-SWITCHING / HYBRID LANGUAGEREFRAIN & SONG STRUCTURE

Daljit Nagra · Singh Song!

15
PROGRESS

I discover / the point of his knee, dusty and cracked / as a dropped biscuit

SUSTAINED EXTENDED METAPHOR — BODY AS MOUNTAINTACTILE IMAGERY — TOUCH AS KNOWLEDGE

Andrew Waterhouse · Climbing My Grandfather