Ever Changing Love- Poem 85 Flashcards
1
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Themes
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Explores the doubts and uncertainties of love.
2
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Short sentences
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Convey the poet’s anger and torment.
3
Q
eight verbs, no adjectives or adverbs.
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Doesn’t try to qualify his feelings within the poem- he just expresses them.
4
Q
Poet’s attitude within the poem
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There is no attempt to solve the problem within the poem.
Facts are simply stated- this is all the poet is capable of in his despair.
5
Q
‘requiris’
you ask
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Involves another person so that the poet can then answer his own question.
6
Q
‘nescio’ ‘sentio et excrucior’
I do not know, I feel and I am in torment.
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He doesn’t know why he feels, but his senses are fully engaged.
