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Summary Poetry Charts (with Comparisons to 'Tess' and 'Go-Between') for 'The Scrutiny', 'Remember' and 'Song (Ae fond kiss)'
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Sophisticated A/A* quality notes and analysis for AQA Love Poems pre-1900: Lovelace's 'The Scrutiny', Rossetti's 'Remember' and Burns' 'Song (Ae fond kiss)' - covering EVERY assessment objective required for A Level English Literature, including key quotations, themes and methods, context and criti...

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‘The Scrutiny’ - Lovelace


Key ideas about love Key techniques/ features about love (AO2) Comparison with other Comparison with ‘Tess Comparison with Context (AO3) Critics’ views (AO5)
(AO1) poems (AO4) of the D'Urbervilles’ ‘The
(AO4) Go-Between’
(AO4)

Separation Repeated use of rhetorical questions ‘A Song’ Angel idolises Lovelace was a Poem contains no tenderness;
caused by could show speaker questioning his own -Attempt to women as Cavalier poet known speaker acts immorally;
decision to call off loyalty + show his incredulous frustration convince women virginal, pure for being cruel+dismissive of her affection;
relationship; that she is being unreasonable that infidelity will figures whereas sensuous+hedonous; ridiculous assumption that she
infidelity; sexual serve them the narrator does supported the Catholic would want him back; silences
desires rebellious/ Regular end-stops shows -Direct address, not place much King; does not follow woman/ his sole viewpoint seems to
out of curiosity; over-confidence yet short lines help oem justify behaviour emphasis on the any set form which matter most to him
keenness to feel casual + quick women’s reflect Cavalier’s
explore other Rather than physicalities, rebellious attitudes;
women Speaker’s choice to leave woman that exhorting a woman although this and boisterous+ triumphant
he previously professed his love for may to join him in a sexual tone reflect Royalists
seem negligent: Carpe diem seizing the day as relationship with -> Cavalier poetry aims
Donne and Marvell them is all that he to express the joy and
Cavalier poem strays away from typical do, the speaker is interested in simple gratification of
admiration+praise for women - focus on himself intends to celebratory things
what speaker can get from other women live his life to the much livelier than the
as opposed to current woman full traditional works of
their predecessors

Desire Deeply self-serving+ self-righteous + ‘Remember’ Longing Civil War between Entertain with/ show off outlandish
amalgamated self-aggrandising argument; arrogant, -Selfless vs expressed in Puritans and Royalists wit; comical light tone; skittish;
with selfishness; blatant exaggeration in doing the world selfish+reckless assurances of - going against untrustworthy
reader questions a service; confidence in his assumption speaker faithfulness + convention/ authority/
genuinity/ ‘tedious twelve hours…I must all other -Tender reflection affection Ch48 rebellious A female of the poem’s era would
sincerity of Beauties wrong’ vs focus on sexual ‘I love you too not be shocked by such an
speaker’s ‘I must search the black and fair Like love much to blame egotistical male attitude
commitment; skilful mineralists’ unequivocal tone; you for going
priorities of own objectification of women away’
sensual
pleasures; greed Heroic male-oriented imagery of Alec + Angel’s
+ gluttony conquest selfishness

, ‘Remember’ - Rossetti AO4 LINK: In ‘The Tenant of Wildfell Hall’, Helen is separated from her husband when he dies


Key ideas about love (AO1) Key techniques/ features about love Comparison with other poems Comparison with ‘Tess Comparison with Context (AO3) Critics’ views (AO5)
(AO2) (AO4) of the D'Urbervilles’ ‘The Go-Between’
(AO4) (AO4)

Celebration of selfless Petrarchan sonnet with iambic Tess’ self-sacrifice Rossetti’s views are far Use of apostrophe
love; hope+ excitement pentameter for her family from conservative and evokes tenderness
for future; priority and Speaker insists even more often questioning,
sacrifice for loved one emphatically that being
of a loving
challenging and relationship;
remembered is all she desires
potentially subversive
Altruistic wish for lover’s ’Only remember me’ repetition speaker’s deep
wellbeing of imperatives affection for her
‘Yet’ indicates volta ‘do not beloved extends
grieve’ realistic speaker
acknowledges it is natural to
even to forgiveness
forget for a moment for forgetting

Love transcends death Powerless to prevent death; ‘Sonnet 116’ Tess and Angel Ted and Marian
though physically impossible to communicate; -enduring love against the separated by death separated by
separate; anticipated beyond reach; inaccessibility of odds + in the face of death
separation because of the dead euphemism of ‘silent obstacles
death land’ underscores distance -constancy/ longevity
-sustaining of romance +
passion

Memory+Grief Direct address creates personal ‘La Belle Dame’ A range of thoughts + feelings, e.g.
tone; poignant contrast -no concern to spare satisfaction, admiration, cynicism,
Finite boundaries of between what can be done now knight scepticism of enduring love
human remembrance and what will become -more grounded+
impossible balanced voice ‘How silly I was in my happiness
‘Better by far you should forget when I thought I could trust you
and smile Than that you should always to love me!’
remember and be sad’ not
tentative; unequivocal

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