Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Love + Relationship
- Manhunt
- then and only then,
did I come close
- 'after passionate nights,'
- 'feel the hurt of his grazed
heart,'
- Structure
- stanza length is equal
- irregular rhyme scheme
- Couplets
- In smaller chunks, tow line stanza's
- gives a feel of fragmentation
- loss of love
- Valentine
- 'Its scent will cling to your knife,'
- KNIFE could suggest hurt or
damage or the death of love
- Context
- 1955, Glasgow
- First female poet Laureate/Royal poet
- Poems often were
feminist in themes and
approach
- Poem is an extended metaphor for the ONION
- The onion is dismissive of cliches
- Gives the traditional love poem a twist
- untraditiona; feeling
- 'its platinum loops shrink to a
wedding ring,'
- Sonnet 43
- 'I love thee with the passion put to those,'
- Cozy Apologia
- Structure
- rhyming, consistent
- last stanza little rhyming
- going against tradition
- doesn't match reality
- When rhyming gets inconsistent, it
reflects their long distance
relationship
- Enjambment
- Traditional love poem
- rhyming couplets
- Rita Dove
- Black women
- her husband fred is white
- Contreversial poet
- Idea's cloud her thoughts
- A wife in London
- Structure
- enjambment
- regular consistent
- 5 line stanza
- regular rhyme scheme
- the layout of poem shows the disorder of her life
- rhyme gives non-traditional rhyme