The Love Poem by Carol Ann Duffy (AQA A-Level English Literature A): Flashcards
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Collection containing 'The Love Poem' by Duffy
Collection containing 'The Love Poem' by Duffy
Rapture (2005)
Technique: incorporating lines from other texts
Technique: incorporating lines from other texts
Intertextuality
Number of stanzas in 'The Love Poem'
Number of stanzas in 'The Love Poem'
Three
Lines per stanza in 'The Love Poem'
Lines per stanza in 'The Love Poem'
Twelve
Word opening each stanza
Word opening each stanza
Till
Why 12 lines (not 14) creates what feeling?
Why 12 lines (not 14) creates what feeling?
Incomplete/unsatisfied feeling (unlike sonnets)
Duffy's view: what have past poets already done?
Duffy's view: what have past poets already done?
Said everything worth saying about love
'Desire of moth for star' represents what?
'Desire of moth for star' represents what?
Impossible yearning; desire for great poetry persists
How is love personified in poem? (4 verbs)
How is love personified in poem? (4 verbs)
Exhausts itself, longs, gives in, speaks
'My mistress' eyes' borrowed from which poet?
'My mistress' eyes' borrowed from which poet?
Shakespeare (Sonnet 130)