A Girls Song - Katherine Tynan
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- Created on: 28-12-18 09:35
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- A Girls Song - Katherine Tynan
- AO3: Context
- Had sons who fought in the war
- First hand knowledge of the war
- Was alive during the war
- Meuse and Marne are both rivers that were part of major battlefields during world war one
- AO2: language and structure
- Iambic Tetrameter which flows to the rhythm of the two rivers
- Pathetic fallacy: aids the mournful tone of the poem
- Extensive natural imagery
- Symbolism
- Juxtaposition between nature and war - War is unnatural
- AO1: Points and Quotes
- Quite a romantic view of war
- "the rose will wear"
- "Twine it in her russet hair"
- Mournful
- Slow pace and mournful tone - loss
- "I heap the stoens"
- "many sleep as sound as he"
- "Here my dear love lies asleep"
- War is unnatural
- "His blood is in the rose's vwins"
- Quite a romantic view of war
- AO4: Links
- Nature: The seedmerchants son
- Mourning: Perhaps
- AO5: Alternatuve interpretations
- Unrealistic view of war
- not very violent
- Not explicit
- Death is a natural part of life - a coping mechanism
- Unrealistic view of war
- AO3: Context
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