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Summary Analysis of Winter Swans. From the GSCE English Poetry Anthology
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Winter Swans; Owen Sheers• images of natur
• tercets ( 3 line stanzas ) —> suggests incompletenes
• pathetic fallacy
• enjambement —> shows elegan
• compares well to Sonnet 29 & neutral tone
• Sheers grew up in South Wales, therefore understanding why most of his poetry about natural worl
• not a Romantic poet —> but he repurposes typical Romantic tropes / images, OR he is in dialogue
with Romantic Poetry OR he is clearly in uenced by their obsession with the natural worl
• about a couple walking around a lake, not talking to each other, their relationship clearly troubled,
then they stop & look at swans, this alters their mood, the poem then ends with the couple appearing
to reconcile—> similar to neutral tone
QUOTE EXPLANATION
“Swans” are mates for life, swans have long been associated
with romantic attachment & bonding
“The clouds had given their all-“ - pathetic fallac
- literal level = image referencing how couples have
expelled all of their rai
- re ects how couple emotionally exhausted & how
their relationship is coming to an en
- they have said all they can to each other, they are
emotionally drained, as clouds have no more rain =
exhauste
- personi cation, the clouds are imbued with an
agency they do not hav
- “-“ typographically mimics how couple have grown
apart
“break” - lineation, connotes seperatio
- enjambment emphasis pause in weather & perhaps
in their arguing too
“the waterlogged earth / gulping for breath” - personi cation of earth
- pathetic fallac
- vivid image speaks of how couples relationship
dying, just as earth is drowning & desperately
struggling to breath & drowning so too is the
speaker’s relationshi
- di erent to image in rst stanza of couple having
‘given their all’ here the earth sees to be struggling &
su ocating re ecting how their relationship may be
su ocatio
- OR lexical choice of verb “gulping” gives ideas of not
giving up, resilience suggesting there is still hope for
the couples relationship, they are willing to struggle
& ght for their relationship —> could also be
struggling to nd word
- although image overall still a negativ
- slight tonal shift / slight possibility of reconciliation
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