Sophisticated A/A* quality notes and analysis for AQA Love Poems pre-1900: Hardy's 'The Ruined Maid', Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 116' and Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty - covering EVERY assessment objective required for A Level English Literature, including key quotations, themes and methods, context an...
‘The Ruined Maid’ - Hardy -> reader’s judgement directed immediately in the title
Key ideas about love Key techniques/ Comparison with Comparison with ‘Tess of the Comparison with ‘The Context (AO3) Critics / alternative interpretations (AO5)
(AO1) features about love other poems (AO4) D'Urbervilles’ (AO4) Go-Between’ (AO4)
(AO2)
Sexual liaison Simile ‘Your hands ‘At an Inn’ -Verisimilitude created Marian is destined - Victorian standards -A more cynical reader might
as an were like paws’ - through colloquial language for Trimingham, the of morality exclude see Amelia using an affair to
brutal reminder of
-irretrievable and dialect ruined maids from
opportunity for ninth Viscount, by gain wealth or disposable
the ravages of loss of ever being a member
socioeconomic -Difficult to get out of her rich but of respectable income and wonder whether
mobility poverty on the body opportunity poverty; equality is difficult non-aristocratic society. Her apparent she intentionally became
to achieve parents but finds freedom relies on a ‘ruined’.
Alliteration ‘sigh’, man who will not be
‘sock’ - there has love and sexual
-Tess’s hands are ‘more judged or punished
been a price paid gratification with -Stanley Renner: “Hardy exploits
delicate’ in Phase 7 & she for his part in her
for the fineries wears a ‘rich cashmere Farmer Ted ruin. the shock he could evoke by
dressing-gown’ when she -> Amelia’s chances merely mentioning the word
Bleak tone; becomes Alec’s mistress of marriage is now ‘ruin’. The irony is in the fact
conversational very unlikely Amelia being “ruined” is her
Desire - tone; matter-of-fact ‘Non sum qualis Tess suppresses her salvation and a comparison is
suppressed? / tone; could be said eram bonae sub sexuality -The late 19th drawn between what it is to be a
exploited? in a light-hearted regno Cynarae’ century witnessed a “ruined” girl and a girl in “ruin”.
manner, which -both consider a moral panic about
contrasts with what less emotionally vice. Believing that -Feminist perspective would
Exploit men’s is entailed in the charged form of their ways of life consider how women are
desires to words she speaks love were under threat oppressed in their gender roles
-love can be from women who did and unable to escape and be
make a living not conform to
Assonance ‘gay manipulated for self-sufficient. The life of the
Victorian standards
bracelets and bright means other of morality, they
Victorian woman is difficult and
feathers’ than emotional demonised demanding and she is less
satisfaction prostitutes. valued than her male equivalent.
-> Amelia’s ability to
Dramatic dialogue enjoy her newfound
in 6 quatrains of 2 riches may be
, rhyming couplets Title’s addendum ‘A Pure consequently limited
contains a refrain Woman Faithfully
‘ruined said she’, Presented’ immediately
which effectively reveals Hardy as his -The new market
economy favoured
exposes the irony protagonist’s defender
industrial
of Amelia’s against condemnation development and
circumstances ‘Never in her life had she discouraged
intended to do wrong yet agriculture. This
Quick-paced + rural these hard judgments resulted in many
accent suits irony had come…’ farmers and
of poem peasants losing their
livelihoods and
moving to the cities
for employment.
‘Sonnet 116’ - Shakespeare
Key ideas about love Key techniques/ Comparison with other poems Comparison with ‘Tess of the D'Urbervilles’ Comparison with ‘The Context (AO3) Critics’ views (AO5)
(AO1) features about love (AO4) (AO4) Go-Between’ (AO4)
(AO2)
True love is not Personification ‘She Walks in Beauty’ Narrator alludes to this poem in -Grim Reaper/ -Tucker Brooke: ‘the
susceptible to of love and time -hyperbolic/ less Ch.53 ‘[Tess and Angel’s ‘Father Time’ simplest words in
time; will outlive/ relationship] had been a love ‘sickles’ language and two simplest
‘Lov’s not Times realistic/ sincere which alters when it alteration
transcend foole’ -only one side of love rhyme schemes to
finds’ vs ‘Love alters not with his -Etymology of
death/ all produce a poem'
seen, which is not breefe houres and weekes’ - figura ‘tempests’ ->
external etymologica - ‘So does Time comes from
corrupting
challenged/ tested
ruthlessly destroy his own Latin word
influences romances’ -> time can diminish tempus (=time),
love/ Hardy challenges whether it Shakespeare’s
is love; fate controlling relationship; fluent reader of
time needed to build trust and Latin would
understanding recognise this
pun
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