Hello Mr Bruff. Could you please do a past exam question of an inspector calls and language analysis of an inspector calls. Also, could you do a language analysis and interpretation of the relationship poems please as I have an exam next week. Many Thanks, Amina.
Both Shakespeare and Mew are concerned with the issues and ideas of love, and yet these authors juxtapose each other in nearly every way. Mew’s purpose is to explore love with one foot squarely in the perceived ‘reality’ of the situation, whereas Shakespeare’s sonnet is more of an explorations of love in its most ‘true’ form. To begin with, Shakespeare describes love as purely spiritual. He describes it as a ‘marriage of true minds’. The noun ‘marriage’ is the first key word in this poem. It implies a lasting, almost eternal commitment to a person, especially in the context of the ultra-religious 1600’s and this idea is backed up again in the line below where there is a mention of ‘impediments’ that echoes the language of ‘marriage’ vows. Later in this line there is the adjective ‘true’, this has two interpretations. The first is that this ‘marriage’ is universally correct or right, which again shows Shakespeare’s opinion on what love should be like. The second interpretation is of an arrow, love is like a ‘true’ arrow - unwavering and straight, but most significantly - will always hit its target. Finally ‘minds’ shows the love to be spiritual in nature, not effected by the physical world, it is between two people who think the same, not two people who have physically compatible bodies. In this sense Shakespeare uses the poem as a mechanism for him to present his own opinion on how true love should be - eternal, unwavering and spiritual. Mew’s poem is an exploration of his own opinion of what ‘love’ should be like, contrasting Shakespeare’s ideas on love. In the first Stanza, Mew writes to his lover that he will spend ‘two hundred (years) to adore each breast’. This from the outset presents the love that Mew is exploring as sexual and physical. Instead of the affair being centred around the unifying of ‘true minds’, it is instead an exploration of a physical affair, with the author focusing on the sexual image of ‘breasts’. This idea is continued when Mew says he will spend ‘thirty thousand to the rest’. ‘Rest’ is key here, as it implies he will be spending time on the other sexual parts of the ‘mistresses’ body as implied by ‘rest’, which is also evidenced by it’s rhyme with ‘breast’. It is only once he has spent an almost eternity on her physicality will he bother with her ‘heart’, showing it to be the least of his concerns. This contrasts with Shakespeare’s message of true love, as Mew shows his opinion of love to be only sexual and physical. Next, Shakespeare shows love to be eternal in line 5 of Sonnet 116. He describes love as an ‘ever fixed mark’. The phrase ‘ever fixed’ describes love as eternal and unchangeable, and likens it to a star for man to use to navigate through life - an idea explored evidenced in the 7th line, with it’s description of love as a ‘star’. This metaphor is a mechanism for Shakespeare to present his own opinion on what love is and how it should be used - an eternal concept that should be used to help navigate through life. Mew contrasts this idea with his own as presented in To His Coy Mistress. Mew describes in the third stanza, how love should be enjoyed while ‘youthful hew sits on thy skin…at every pore with instant fires’. Mew describes youth as ‘dew’, which shows youth and innocence to be easily wiped clean, like ‘dew’ but also only present in the ‘morning’ or beginning of life. Instead he want this ‘dew’ to be destroyed by the sinful, internally suppressed passion that the ‘mistress’ has as symbolised by ‘fires’ in the poem. In this sense, juxtaposing Sonnet 116, Mew doesn’t see love to be eternal, but a mature, sexual, sinful concept that should be enjoyed while it can be. Thirdly, Shakespeare describes the impact of time upon love. He writes in the ninth line that ‘love is not time’s fool’. This personifies both love and time, but importantly shows love to be ‘winning’ in this conflict as, perhaps unlike everything else, not being times ‘fool’. This again presents love as eternal, and thus not effected by ‘time’. However the poet understand that the physical body (‘rosy lip’s and cheeks’) is effected by ‘time’ this is not what love should be based on; Shakespeare’s opinion is that true love is separate from the physical world. This idea is contrasted with that in To His Coy Mistress. This poem understands the effect of time, as the most important factor in a relationship, as shown in the second stanza in its description of ‘time’s winged chariot hurrying near’. ’Chariot’ presents reality as a constant race between love and time, and as such ‘love’ should be enjoyed while it can be. Structurally, the two poems also contrast. Sonnet 116 is in the traditional iambic pentameter which symbolises the universal nature of love by using the most common poetic form at the time of writing; THCM as perhaps a direct reference to this uses iambic tetrameter to presents the poems main theme - that time is finite, and thus love should be enjoyed while it can be. In conclusion, both poems explore ideas about the nature of love, but present love in opposite ways. Mew focuses on ‘time’s winged chariot’, whereas Sonnet 116 is an exploration of love as an ‘ever fixed mark’.
Great Video!, I was wondering, would first person/ second person and whether there is multiple perspectives in the poem (like Poppies) be considered form?
Hi Mr Bruff, could you suggest a few more forms of poetry that is used at GCSE because it's the one I struggle with the most when I compare. Thanks. Your videos have been really helpful for everything by the way.
I like how the poem ends with GG
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Hello Mr Bruff. Could you please do a past exam question of an inspector calls and language analysis of an inspector calls. Also, could you do a language analysis and interpretation of the relationship poems please as I have an exam next week.
Many Thanks, Amina.
Could you please show how to compare poems, especially when they only ask for form and structure only?
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Both Shakespeare and Mew are concerned with the issues and ideas of love, and yet these authors juxtapose each other in nearly every way. Mew’s purpose is to explore love with one foot squarely in the perceived ‘reality’ of the situation, whereas Shakespeare’s sonnet is more of an explorations of love in its most ‘true’ form.
To begin with, Shakespeare describes love as purely spiritual. He describes it as a ‘marriage of true minds’. The noun ‘marriage’ is the first key word in this poem. It implies a lasting, almost eternal commitment to a person, especially in the context of the ultra-religious 1600’s and this idea is backed up again in the line below where there is a mention of ‘impediments’ that echoes the language of ‘marriage’ vows. Later in this line there is the adjective ‘true’, this has two interpretations. The first is that this ‘marriage’ is universally correct or right, which again shows Shakespeare’s opinion on what love should be like. The second interpretation is of an arrow, love is like a ‘true’ arrow - unwavering and straight, but most significantly - will always hit its target. Finally ‘minds’ shows the love to be spiritual in nature, not effected by the physical world, it is between two people who think the same, not two people who have physically compatible bodies. In this sense Shakespeare uses the poem as a mechanism for him to present his own opinion on how true love should be - eternal, unwavering and spiritual.
Mew’s poem is an exploration of his own opinion of what ‘love’ should be like, contrasting Shakespeare’s ideas on love. In the first Stanza, Mew writes to his lover that he will spend ‘two hundred (years) to adore each breast’. This from the outset presents the love that Mew is exploring as sexual and physical. Instead of the affair being centred around the unifying of ‘true minds’, it is instead an exploration of a physical affair, with the author focusing on the sexual image of ‘breasts’. This idea is continued when Mew says he will spend ‘thirty thousand to the rest’. ‘Rest’ is key here, as it implies he will be spending time on the other sexual parts of the ‘mistresses’ body as implied by ‘rest’, which is also evidenced by it’s rhyme with ‘breast’. It is only once he has spent an almost eternity on her physicality will he bother with her ‘heart’, showing it to be the least of his concerns. This contrasts with Shakespeare’s message of true love, as Mew shows his opinion of love to be only sexual and physical.
Next, Shakespeare shows love to be eternal in line 5 of Sonnet 116. He describes love as an ‘ever fixed mark’. The phrase ‘ever fixed’ describes love as eternal and unchangeable, and likens it to a star for man to use to navigate through life - an idea explored evidenced in the 7th line, with it’s description of love as a ‘star’. This metaphor is a mechanism for Shakespeare to present his own opinion on what love is and how it should be used - an eternal concept that should be used to help navigate through life.
Mew contrasts this idea with his own as presented in To His Coy Mistress. Mew describes in the third stanza, how love should be enjoyed while ‘youthful hew sits on thy skin…at every pore with instant fires’. Mew describes youth as ‘dew’, which shows youth and innocence to be easily wiped clean, like ‘dew’ but also only present in the ‘morning’ or beginning of life. Instead he want this ‘dew’ to be destroyed by the sinful, internally suppressed passion that the ‘mistress’ has as symbolised by ‘fires’ in the poem. In this sense, juxtaposing Sonnet 116, Mew doesn’t see love to be eternal, but a mature, sexual, sinful concept that should be enjoyed while it can be.
Thirdly, Shakespeare describes the impact of time upon love. He writes in the ninth line that ‘love is not time’s fool’. This personifies both love and time, but importantly shows love to be ‘winning’ in this conflict as, perhaps unlike everything else, not being times ‘fool’. This again presents love as eternal, and thus not effected by ‘time’. However the poet understand that the physical body (‘rosy lip’s and cheeks’) is effected by ‘time’ this is not what love should be based on; Shakespeare’s opinion is that true love is separate from the physical world.
This idea is contrasted with that in To His Coy Mistress. This poem understands the effect of time, as the most important factor in a relationship, as shown in the second stanza in its description of ‘time’s winged chariot hurrying near’. ’Chariot’ presents reality as a constant race between love and time, and as such ‘love’ should be enjoyed while it can be.
Structurally, the two poems also contrast. Sonnet 116 is in the traditional iambic pentameter which symbolises the universal nature of love by using the most common poetic form at the time of writing; THCM as perhaps a direct reference to this uses iambic tetrameter to presents the poems main theme - that time is finite, and thus love should be enjoyed while it can be.
In conclusion, both poems explore ideas about the nature of love, but present love in opposite ways. Mew focuses on ‘time’s winged chariot’, whereas Sonnet 116 is an exploration of love as an ‘ever fixed mark’.
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Is there any chance you can predict and do a sample essay for inspector Calls and of mice and men aqa for Monday? Thank you!
Great Video!, I was wondering, would first person/ second person and whether there is multiple perspectives in the poem (like Poppies) be considered form?
Hi Mr Bruff, could you suggest a few more forms of poetry that is used at GCSE because it's the one I struggle with the most when I compare. Thanks. Your videos have been really helpful for everything by the way.
What is the best way to get the best quot from an unread text?
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Could do some videos on the Crucible
It would be very helpful
will you do some of the English language edexcel anthology texts in section A and B
YESSSSSS!!!!
Have you read the wessex tales? I do unit 4 (thomas hardy and macbeth) rather than unit 2 (poetry) and its haaaaard haha
Please do predictions for this year
Could you do structure analysis on when the wasps drown or polish teachers tie?
Please do more lord of the flies videos!1
What do you predict the poem is going to be on Mondays lit exam?
It's unseen poetry so he probly won't know
JustFootball yeah but he has correctly predicted them before.
+JustFootball There is only one unseen there are ones from the anthology too
+JBTheMighty maybe he can predict who will come up on the Mice and Men essay then
love your videos they're so helpful! could you do something on Under Milk Wood for AQA English Lit please? thank you!
Who got English literature this Monday?
+Ibrahim A everyone!
+mrbruff Thanks mrbuff you have helped me loads with your videos
Ibrahim A me
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Hey mr Buff, could you do work on animal farm and Jayne eyre please ? 😁
+Leah Underwood yes
dude whipped out a minecraft hospital like a boss
Is it just me, or does this guy sound just like James Corden???
I've not heard that before.