• Text commentary of a poem by Robert Graves, "Lovers in Winter". It was part of an introductory course to English literature during 1st yr at university.

     

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Published: 29.12.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'Text commentary of a poem by Robert Graves, "Lovers in Winter". It was part of a', 1.
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ESSAY ON A POEM
Robert Graves, "Lovers in winter"
The poem identifies nature images with feelings in both stanzas. In the first one it compares a tree to a person (the poetic I) and wind to the You's cruelty. In the second one there is a link between backward and the green branches (an image of happy past) and forward and ill weather (an image of unpleasant present). Furthermore, the poem has rhyme in each of its verses and this contributes to the rhythm the poem already has thanks to the isochrony of the English language.
In the first stanza there is a cause-effect relation between the…

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