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This brilliant book is the ultimate guide to the Love and Relationships cluster from the AQA GCSE English Literature Anthology of Poetry! The parties do not intend that any provisions of this Agreement shall be enforceable by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 by any person not a party to it. 11. Entire Agreement Each poetry anthology at GCSE contains 15 poems, and in your exam question you will be given one poem - printed in full - and asked to compare this printed poem to another. As this is a closed-book exam, you will not have access to the second poem, so you will have to know it from memory. Fifteen poems is a lot to revise. However, understanding four things will enable you to produce a top-grade response: Use CGP Online Editions for your own personal use, including things like studying, classroom teaching, lesson planning and in-school training. Both Shelley’s Love’s Philosophy and Browning’s Porphyria’s Lover convey the speaker’s intense feelings, as well as a sense of intention and power, in their response to desire. However, Shelley’s speaker explores natural abandonment and the power of unity, while Browning’s obsessive narrator depicts possessive and destructive love.
Please refer to this Agreement before adding more titles to your CGP Online Editions account (Your Account). 1. LicenceThe poem evokes natural imagery in an extended metaphor comparing the way nature harmonises and unites in love Here, too, natural imagery is used to present the speaker’s attitude that love and physical closeness are a natural part of life: This book can also be bought as a standalone Online Edition– we'll send you a code to redeem immediately.
The poems end without resolution as both speakers are left longing for their partner’s physical love Learn AQA English Lit GCSE for FREE Join 2 million+ students learning the AQA GCSE Love & Relationships anthology In Love’s Philosophy, the speaker depicts harmony within nature in a bid to convince his lover that humans should, equally, engage in physical and natural love If you're trying to work out how to do well in your English Lit GCSE, get revising with Seneca for FREE!
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While both poets explore romantic love as natural, Shelley’s poem evokes the beauty and harmony of nature and love, while Mew’s natural imagery suggests the distance between the lovers
The repetition of “And” to introduce each reason for the physical relationship brings a desperation to his voiceFor example, writin g “Browning writes Porphyria’s Lover in the form of a dramatic monologue” will not get you a mark. However, writing “Browning uses the form of a dramatic monologue to reflect the speaker’s total control over his lover: it is the speaker’s narrative, his story, and his lover is marginalised, silenced” will A first-person speaker presents an emotional argument to convince a silent lover to engage in a kiss