Relationships

8 Re-read My Father Would Not Show Us. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.

Compare how feelings about the loss of someone are presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats A Child to his Sick Grandfather – Joanna Baillie She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron A Complaint – William Wordsworth Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy Sonnet 43 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess – Robert Browning 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He – Wendy Cope Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy One Flesh – Elizabeth Jennings i wanna be yours – John Cooper Clarke Love’s Dog – Jen Hadfield Nettles – Vernon Scannell The Manhunt – Simon Armitage My Father Would Not Show Us – Ingrid de Kok

8 Re-read The Manhunt. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.

Compare how a relationship between two people is presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats A Child to his Sick Grandfather – Joanna Baillie She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron A Complaint – William Wordsworth Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy Sonnet 43 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess – Robert Browning 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He – Wendy Cope Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy One Flesh – Elizabeth Jennings i wanna be yours – John Cooper Clarke Love’s Dog – Jen Hadfield Nettles – Vernon Scannell The Manhunt – Simon Armitage My Father Would Not Show Us – Ingrid de Kok

8 Re-read My Last Duchess. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.

Compare how memories are presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci — John Keats A Child to his Sick Grandfather — Joanna Baillie She Walks in Beauty — Lord Byron A Complaint — William Wordsworth Neutral Tones — Thomas Hardy Sonnet 43 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess — Robert Browning 1st Date — She and 1st Date — He — Wendy Cope Valentine — Carol Ann Duffy One Flesh — Elizabeth Jennings i wanna be yours — John Cooper Clarke Love’s Dog — Jen Hadfield Nettles — Vernon Scannell The Manhunt — Simon Armitage My Father Would Not Show Us — Ingrid de Kok

8 Re-read i wanna be yours. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.

Compare how emotions are presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats A Child to his Sick Grandfather – Joanna Baillie She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron A Complaint – William Wordsworth Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy Sonnet 43 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess – Robert Browning 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He – Wendy Cope Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy One Flesh – Elizabeth Jennings i wanna be yours – John Cooper Clarke Love’s Dog – Jen Hadfield Nettles – Vernon Scannell The Manhunt – Simon Armitage My Father Would Not Show Us – Ingrid de Kok

8 Re-read She Walks in Beauty. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.

Compare how admiration for another person is presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats A Child to his Sick Grandfather – Joanna Baillie She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron A Complaint – William Wordsworth Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy Sonnet 43 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess – Robert Browning 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He – Wendy Cope Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy One Flesh – Elizabeth Jennings i wanna be yours – John Cooper Clarke Love’s Dog – Jen Hadfield Nettles – Vernon Scannell The Manhunt – Simon Armitage My Father Would Not Show Us – Ingrid de Kok

8 Re-read A Complaint. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.

Compare how loss is presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats A Child to his Sick Grandfather – Joanna Baillie She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron A Complaint – William Wordsworth Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy Sonnet 43 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess – Robert Browning 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He – Wendy Cope Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy One Flesh – Elizabeth Jennings i wanna be yours – John Cooper Clarke Love’s Dog – Jen Hadfield Nettles – Vernon Scannell The Manhunt – Simon Armitage My Father Would Not Show Us – Ingrid de Kok

8 Re-read Valentine. Choose one other poem from the Relationships anthology.

Compare how strong feelings are presented in the two poems.

In your answer, you should consider the:

• poets’ use of language, form and structure

• the influence of the contexts in which the poems were written.

The poems you have studied are:

La Belle Dame Sans Merci – John Keats A Child to his Sick Grandfather – Joanna Baillie She Walks in Beauty – Lord Byron A Complaint – William Wordsworth Neutral Tones – Thomas Hardy Sonnet 43 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning My Last Duchess – Robert Browning 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He – Wendy Cope Valentine – Carol Ann Duffy One Flesh – Elizabeth Jennings i wanna be yours – John Cooper Clarke Love’s Dog – Jen Hadfield Nettles – Vernon Scannell The Manhunt – Simon Armitage My Father Would Not Show Us – Ingrid de Kok