Gatsby and Pre-1900 Love Poetry Comparison

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Compare how love is presented as illusory
Key Poems
Sonnet 116, She Walks in Beauty, At an Inn, The Garden of Love
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Compare how love is presented as illusory
Key Moments
Gatsby and Daisy's reunion, description of Daisy and Tom's house, Daisy's happiness in their marriage, Nick's love for Gatsby, Gatsby's death
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Compare how love is presented as illusory
Critic Quotes
'In desiring Daisy and possessing her, men can only shatter the image of perfection they project onto her'
Darren Morton
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Conflict between love and morality
Key Poems
To His Coy Mistress, The Flea, Whose List to Hount, The Scrutiny
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Conflict between love and morality
Key moments
Initial description of Myrtle, Tom and Myrtle at the apartment, Gatsby's introduction to Pammy, Hotel room scene, the 'fifth guest'
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Compare how love is presented as destined for failure
Key poems
To His Coy Mistress, Whose List to Hount, The Flea
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Compare how love is presented as destined for failure
Key moments
Gatsby and Daisy's reunion, Daisy being prevented from marrying Gatsby, Myrtle and Wilson's marriage, the wedding of Tom and Daisy, Tom buying Daisy pearls at the end of the novel
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Compare how authors present the intensity of love
Key poems
Sonnet 116, Whose List to Hount, Non Sum Qualis
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Compare how authors present the intensity of love
Key moments
Description of Daisy and Tom after she kills Myrtle, the maintained connection between Tom and Daisy throughout- buying pearls for her at the end, the reunion of Gatsby and Daisy, Wilson's realisation that Myrtle has been cheating
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Compare how love is presented as leading to loneliness
Key poems
Whose List to Hount, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, At an Inn, Non Sum Qualis
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Compare how love is presented as leading to loneliness
Key moments
Description of Gatsby at his party, Gatsby looking across the water to the green light, Wilson's realisation that Myrtle has been cheating on him, Gatsby's funeral, final lines of the novel
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Compare how love is presented as indulgent
Key poems
A Song (Absent from thee), Remember, The Scrutiny, To His Coy Mistress
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Compare how love is presented as indulgent
Key moments
Tom's relationship with Myrtle (the fifth guest, description of them in public, the apartment), the hotel room scene, Gatsby feeling entitled to Daisy
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Compare how ideas about loyalty are presented
Key poems
Sonnet 116, To His Coy Mistress, The Flea, The Scrutiny
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Compare how ideas about loyalty are presented
Key moments
Gatsby looking towards the green light, Gatsby and Daisy's reunion, Gatsby leaving for war, Tom and Myrtle's relationship, the hotel room scene
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How authors present love as a cause of suffering
Key poems
Whose List to Hount, Ae Fond Kiss, Non Sum Qualis, La Belle Dame Sans Merci
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How authors present love as a cause of suffering
Key moments
Wilson's realisation that Myrtle has been cheating on him, Wilson's pilgrimage and 'holocaust', the death of Myrtle, the hotel room scene, Gatsby 'watching over nothing', Tom and Daisy's marriage- lack of love/ happiness?
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Gatsby and Daisy's reunion, description of Daisy and Tom's house, Daisy's happiness in their marriage, Nick's love for Gatsby, Gatsby's death

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Compare how love is presented as illusory
Key Moments

Card 3

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'In desiring Daisy and possessing her, men can only shatter the image of perfection they project onto her'
Darren Morton

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Card 4

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To His Coy Mistress, The Flea, Whose List to Hount, The Scrutiny

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Card 5

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Initial description of Myrtle, Tom and Myrtle at the apartment, Gatsby's introduction to Pammy, Hotel room scene, the 'fifth guest'

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