relationships poetry

2. describes a first date from two different perspectives
4. describes the relationship between the speaker’s parents in the later years.
6. the narrator is complaining that their relationship with a friend with a friend/lover has changed significantly.
9. the narrator is addressing their elderly grandfather on his sick bed.
11. the narrator describes a woman he’s seen, thinking she is incredibly beautiful and uses images of dark and light to emphasise how perfect she is.
12. what the speaker loves and hates about being in love.
15. the wife of a soldier gets to know her husband again after he returns home injured from war.

1. the poem describes the narrator’s experience seeing their father’s dead body.
3. the speaker of the poem is giving a gift to their partner, rather than a traditional gift it is an onion.
5. describes the time when their son fell in a bed of nettles.
7. the Duke points out a portrait of the Duchess and gets very controlling and protective.
8. the speaker expresses her intense love for her lover, counting all the different ways in which she loves him.
10. the story of a knight who had a romantic encounter with a mysterious woman. She seduced him and took him back to her magical cave and abandoned him.
13. the narrator remembers a day when they stood by a pond with a lover - their relationship is failing and about to come to and end.
14. speaker is telling someone how much they care for them with the use of everyday objects.