GCSE English AQA Poetry Guide - Love & Relationships Anthology inc. Online Edn, Audio & Quizzes: perfect for the 2024 and 2025 exams (CGP AQA GCSE Poetry)

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His sophisticated argument suggests if his listener refuses, it would be unnatural and sinful: the hyperbolic argument highlights the narrator’s desperate desire and longing In this course, Professor John McRae (University of Nottingham) explores the fifteen poems that make up the ‘Love and Relationships’ cluster for GCSE English Literature (AQA). Each poem is read in full, with a short commentary highlighting aspects of language, style, themes, motif, and so on. In the case of Browning’s ‘Porphyria’s Lover’, for example, we think about the genre of dramatic monologue and the themes of possession and domination. When we come to ‘The Farmer’s Bride’, we focus on the literary heritage of wives who have been trapped/imprisoned by their husbands, and the wife’s relationship with nature. And so on for the whole collection.

However, the sonnet ends with a sense of resolution: “I do not think of thee - I am too near thee.” Please refer to this Agreement before adding more titles to your CGP Online Editions account (Your Account). 1. Licence Please call Customer Services on 0800 1712 712 if you are experiencing difficulties or have any questions. 8. Disclaimer

i. Our liability to you for any losses shall not exceed the amount you originally paid for the service. Shelley’s Romantic poem presents nature as a unifying power within love, whereas Mew’s poem presents the wild spirit of the bride in opposition to a romantic relationship While Shelley leaves his speaker’s physical desire unresolved, Elizabeth Barrett Browning presents a solution to her longing for physical intimacy

The poets both comment on power imbalances within romantic relationships by showing frustrated speakers who attempt to persuade a lover to be intimate with them

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Both poets convey their strong feelings related to romantic love and desire by showing their connections with nature as powerful and emotional He suggests his lover, Porphyria, worships him and that after his night of passion and murder “God has not said a word!”

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Similarly, Elizabeth Barrett Browning comments on the nature of physical unity within romantic relationships as natural: Each poem is discussed in full, making it the ideal resource for after you've covered the poem in class as a definitive set of revision notes. Each of the AQA Love and Relationships poems includes notes on: Distance is explored in two ways in the Love and Relationships cluster: both literally (a physical distance between two people in a relationship ), and figuratively ( a relationship that is becoming less close, or intimate ). The idea of physical distance is explored in terms of:

From September 2022, digital versions of our current poetry collection for Love and Relationships (8702/B/1) and Power and Conflict (8702/B/2), and also our new poetry cluster World and Lives (8702/B/3) are available on Centre Services. You can teach Worlds and Lives(8702/B/3) from 2023 onwards and the first exam will be in 2025. Similarly, Mew’s first-person speaker conveys frustration at the distance between he and his bride:The poem evokes natural imagery in an extended metaphor comparing the way nature harmonises and unites in love However, Mew uses natural imagery to represent the fear and distance within the romantic relationship between the farmer and his bride: Shelley conveys Romantic themes of love as a unifying force, and presents physical desire as liberating: