Compare how ideas about enduring love are presented in two texts you have studied.
You must write about at least two poems in your answer as well as the prose text you have studied. [25 marks]
A* standard essay plan
Compare how ideas about enduring love are presented in two texts you have studied.
You must write about at least two poems in your answer as well as the prose text you
have studied. [25 marks]
Remember Sonnet 116
- Love is about more than 1 person, it - Conversely the speaker in this poem
is about a state of being as a whole believes that if you can move on
which the speaker eventually from love and love another then you
realises and wants the people that never loved at all. It is an
they love to be happy and all-consuming and overwhelming
forward-facing rather than sad and force of nature.
looking to the past - “Love is not love which alters”
- “Remember me when I am gone - “[love] is an ever-fixed mark”
away” - “Love is not Time’s fool...alters not
- “And afterwards remember, do not with his brief hours and weeks”
grieve” - If this be error...no man ever lov’d”
- “Better by far you should forget and
smile”
A Room with a View
- Relationship between Lucy and George throughout the novel even if she doesn’t
realise it
- “Muddle”
- “He saw radiant joy in her face” - before George kisses Lucy in the violets
- “I am very happy” - Lucy
- “Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion
requited, love attained”
- Lucy and Cecil are the opposite of enduring love because they are so awkward
and uncomfortable around each other
- “Medieval” vs “renaissance”
- “How had she stood Cecil for a moment?” - teaches her a lesson
- “It had been a failure. Passion should believe itself irresistible”
- Parental love is enduring from Mr Emerson to George
- “I don’t require you to fall in love with my boy...you might try and
understand him” - Mr Emerson
- “He may be killed!” - Mr Emerson about George during the lightning storm
on the mountain when he doesn’t get in the carriage
- “All my teaching of George has come down to this: beware the muddle” -
Mr Emerson
- “You love the boy body and soul, plainly, directly, as he loves you” - Mr
Emerson
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