Critically analyse the optimism and determination of love in ‘Love in a Life’.
Recognise and assess the significance to time in relation to love in the work of Lauris Edmond.
Evaluate the significance of the comparable feelings associated with love and live in ‘Rhyme of the Dead Self’.
Successfully analyse the lyrical voice that culminates with the thought of yearned affection in the work of James Joyce.
Understand the rhythmic form of Philip Marston’s ‘After’ in relation to loss and bereavement.
Assess ‘Rooms’ in terms of the metaphorical connection to the structure of life, personality and identity.
Critically analyse the rhythm and iambic pentameter to illustrate the theme of death in ‘Verses Written on Her Death-bed at Bath to Her Husband in London’.
Recognise the significance of descriptive versification in the work of Alexander Pope.
Develop critical knowledge and understanding of ‘alexandrine’ rhythm in relation to the theme of living in the moment in the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Successfully analyse how Algernon Charles Swinburne presents optimism after the loss of love in his poetry.
Successfully analyse the inhumane presentation of the husband in ‘The Forsaken Wife’.
Assess the stability of truth when aging in ‘Nearing Forty’.
Critically evaluate how Wotten presents the principals of a good life in ‘The Character of a Happy Life’.
Come to a deeper understanding of the confusion, ambiguity and vacillation of feelings and emotions connected with love in Sir Thomas Wyatt’s poetry.
Assess the oxymoronic presentation of love and hope in ‘Now Let No Charitable Hope’.