Anthology notes

• A soldier who has returned from the war.
• His wife is looking at his scars
• He has both physical and mental scarring. (PTSD, Depression).
• Each stanza is two lines long - could show the wife tracing the scars, or the husbands marching at war.
• Theme - War, Relationships.
• Devises - 'B' and 'P' plosive, personification, enjambament, lexical feild.
• Female perspective.

• 'Parachute silk of his punctured lung'
• 'Skirting along'
• 'After passionate nights and intimate days'
• 'Foetus of metal'
• 'Feel the hurt of his grazed heart' 

• A love poem written to Robbert Browning
• Robert Browning was a fan of Elizabeth's
• The poem is a response to him asking how much she loves him
• Starts with a rhetorical question
• 43rd sonnet the 1st could be the start of the relationship.
• Theme - Relationship, love
• Devices - Personification, enjambment, semantic field of religion

• 'How do I love thee'
• 'I love thee freely'
• 'In my old griefs'
• 'With my lost saints'
• 'I shall love thee but better after death'

• During the industrial revolution.
• People become poor due to machines.
• Negative Opinion
• Population increase fewer jobs
• Young girls 15 become harlots
• Poets POV
• 4 lines per stanza 
• 1+2+4 People, 3 Cause 
• Devices - Enjambment, Repetition, imagery
• Theme - Power, Change, Confinement.

• 'I wander through each charter'd street' 
  
• 'In every cry of man' 
• 'In every' - repeated three times.
• 'Every blackening church appals'
• 'How the youthful harlot's curse'

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