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Love and relationships (exam 26).
Love and Relationships
A topic about love, loss and longing. Aspects covered:
-Conventional love poetry and inverted love poems.
-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: Flash fiction, narrator (1. and 3.) and perspective (e.g. reliable/unreliable).
We have also looked at some conventional traits by the Italian lyric poet Petrarch (1304–74) in order to detect how other poets have inverted the conventions of the past:
-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
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
Anonymous, “Pancake poem” (poem, year unknown). Lost source.
Richard Bautigan: “Love Poem” (poem, 1969).
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/04/28/love-poem-by-richard-brautigan/
Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” (excerpt of a novel of manners, 1813). Appears in the anthology, "Wider Contexts" written by Hanne Ohland-Andersen, Mette Grønvold, Jonna Engberg-Pedersen. Gyldendal, 2012. And in i-bogsudgave, 2020: https://widercontexts.systime.dk/?id=210
Pride & Prejudice (film/2005). Directed by Joe Wright.
Rupi Kaur: In an Ideal World" (Poem, 2014).
Rupi Kaur "For the Passionate Ones" (Poem, 2014).
The poems appear in chapter 2 (Modern Love in songs and poetry) in the anthology: Modern Love af Joachim Sonne og Rolf Wicker. Praxis, 2024.
Joe R. Lansdale: Love Doll (short story, 2014).
Additional material:
India and arranged marriages:
- Do Indians Prefer Love or Arranged Marriage? | Street Interview, YouTube, 2024. (16:59 min.). Source; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axfx92wI83E
- Can Indians Marry outside Their Caste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xA7RGJiuUc (Steet interview, Asian Buzz, 2024).
Indian Matchmaking (reality show, MAX, series one, season one/2021).
-A 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).
Handouts point of view, words modern dating.
A boardgame about love.
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Dane McCusker, “The Complex”, a short film, 2020 (approx. 10 min). https://filmshortage.com/shorts/the-complex/
The film raises questions about micro aggressions, personal boundaries and gender.
Video on beauty standards in Elizabethan era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAdbH7tgabg&t=491s
About the iambic pentamenter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lsuyUNu_4&t=11s
Easton Corbin: Why You Gotta Be So Rude - Marry that Girl (song, 2022). Why You Gotta Be So Rude - Marry That Girl
IN later topic about London, you also read: Rajinder Kaur: A Marriage Made in Hounslow (a fictional text about an arranged marriage, 2010).
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