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💞 Love and Relationships Poetry – GCSE
English · GCSE — poets, themes, forms and key quotations from the Love and Relationships anthology
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Who wrote the dramatic poem 'Porphyria's Lover'?
Lord Byron
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Thomas Hardy
Robert Browning
20s
Which poet wrote 'Follower', about a boy watching his father plough the fields?
Simon Armitage
Cecil Day-Lewis
Seamus Heaney
Owen Sheers
20s
Who wrote 'Singh Song!', about a newly married shopkeeper and his bride?
Maura Dooley
Carol Ann Duffy
Daljit Nagra
Andrew Waterhouse
20s
'Porphyria's Lover' is spoken by one character revealing his thoughts to the reader. What is this form called?
Villanelle
Elegy
Dramatic monologue
Petrarchan sonnet
20s
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 'Sonnet 29' has an octave followed by a sestet. Which type of sonnet is it?
Shakespearean sonnet
Free verse sonnet
Petrarchan sonnet
Spenserian sonnet
30s
In 'Climbing My Grandfather', Andrew Waterhouse uses an extended metaphor. What is the grandfather compared to?
A ship
A castle
A tree
A mountain
30s
In Simon Armitage's 'Mother, any distance', which object symbolises the bond between son and mother?
A washing line
A tape measure
A dog lead
A ball of wool
30s
In 'Love's Philosophy', Shelley tries to persuade his beloved to kiss him mainly by using images of:
Wealth and costly gifts
Ancient myths and legends
Battles and heroic glory
Nature joining together
30s
Which poem contains the lines 'The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing / Alive enough to have strength to die'?
Neutral Tones
Winter Swans
The Farmer's Bride
When We Two Parted
30s
Which poem is best compared with 'Porphyria's Lover' as a possessive male speaker's monologue about a woman?
Winter Swans
Letters from Yorkshire
The Farmer's Bride
Eden Rock
30s