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Love and relationships (exam 2026).
A topic about love, loss and longing which includes the following aspects:
-Conventional love poetry and inverted love poems (with cynical, negative, or heartbreaking views on love).
-Love marriages and arranged marriages.
-Innocent love, twisted love and crossing sexual boundaries.
In order to get under the skin of imagery students create pick-up lines and poems that require plenty of metaphors and similes. They will also practise words such as: Alliteration, personification, stanza, rhyme/rhythm, contrasts and imagery. Other literary terms we have applied: Narrator (1. and 3.) and perspective (e.g. reliable/unreliable).
Briefly, we have looked into some conventional poetry traits by the Italian lyric poet Petrarch (1304–74) in order to detect how other poets have inverted these conventions:
-an idealized mistress (poetry praising the beauty of the woman in exaggerated manner).
-the mistress is often absent or otherwise unavailable
-the mistress is chaste
-the poet is less worth than the mistress.
Finally we have tried to categorize different types of love poetry in relation to different types of love:
Eros (sexual passion)
Philia (deep friendship and platonic)
Ludus (playful love, dating?)
Agape (love for everyone/selfless love/not expect anything in return)
Pragma (longstanding love, commitment)
Philautia (love of the self)
Storge (parental love)
Mania (obsessive love)
Core texts:
-Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy (1993). Poem.
Lyrics: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/valentine/
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpeMawmYPqo
- Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare (1609).
Recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP06F0yynic
-Rupi Kaur: In an Ideal World" (Poem, 2014). Appear in chapter 2 (Modern Love in songs and poetry) in the anthology: Modern Love af Joachim Sonne og Rolf Wicker. Praxis, 2024.
- Rupi Kaur "For the Passionate Ones" (Poem, 2014). Source - see above.
- Joe R. Lansdale: Love Doll (short story, 2014).
- Rajinder Kaur: A Marriage Made in Hounslow (short story, 2016)
Additional material:
-Quizlet (metaphor, simile, oxymoron, foreshadowing, alliteration, meter, rhythm and rhyme, a couplet): https://quizlet.com/100936651/literary-terms-flash-cards/
Quotes about love (from Wider Context, Gyldendal).
Handouts point of view, words modern dating, boardgame love.
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Film: A Beautiful Mind (film, 2001). Directed by Ron Howard.
Dane McCusker, “The Complex”, a short film, 2020 (approx. 10 min). https://filmshortage.com/shorts/the-complex/
About a girl who moves into a complex and feels intimidated by a very outspoken male neighbour. The film deals with personal boundaries and internalised stereotypes and also raises questions about micro aggressions - i.e. actions that negatively targets a person or group.
The male gaze in movies and television and the theory of the male gaze (video, 2021).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVFHwTp2qRg
A video version of Stephen King's short story: The Man Who Loved Flowers from 1978 (directed by Christopher Harrison in 2010): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqIR9SD89j4&t=7s
Different types of love (Greek style): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTDfpJZyJoY
- Do Indians Prefer Love or Arranged Marriage? | Street Interview, YouTube, 2024. (16:59 min.). Source; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfx92wI83E
Indian Matchmaking (reality show, MAX, series one, season one/2021).
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