Relationships overview — Edexcel GCSE English Literature 1ET0
Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0
Relationships overview
Overview
What you need to know
The 15 poems at a glance, from Romantic ballads and Victorian sonnets to contemporary free verse: poet, date, form, speaker and the relationship each one explores.
A map of the collection by theme, so you can choose a fitting second poem for any question.
A table of the 15 poems: poet, date, form and one key quotation each.
Romantic love and devotion: Sonnet 43, She Walks in Beauty, i wanna be yours and Valentine.
Attraction and first meetings: 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He, She Walks in Beauty, La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Love's Dog.
Love that has cooled, changed or ended: Neutral Tones, A Complaint, One Flesh and La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
Power, control and possession: My Last Duchess, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Valentine and i wanna be yours.
Parents, children and grandparents: A Child to his Sick Grandfather, Nettles, One Flesh and My Father Would Not Show Us.
Loss, illness and death: My Father Would Not Show Us, A Child to his Sick Grandfather, My Last Duchess, A Complaint and La Belle Dame Sans Merci.
Wounds, care and healing: The Manhunt, Nettles and A Child to his Sick Grandfather.
Honesty and pretence: 1st Date – She and 1st Date – He, Valentine and My Last Duchess.
Memory and time: Neutral Tones, My Last Duchess, One Flesh and My Father Would Not Show Us.
Pairing by form: poems spoken in a character's voice (My Last Duchess, 1st Date, The Manhunt), the sonnet and the ballad, list poems built on repetition (i wanna be yours, Love's Dog, Sonnet 43), and free verse against strict rhyme and metre.
