Welcome to another video. You've got Mr. Everything English. And today, love and relationship crew. We are going through the five poems that I recommend you learn for your GCSEs this coming year. Everything education tuition for maths, English and science. Now guys, look, there are 15 poems in the love and relationship section in the love and relationship cluster. Now, what do I say to you guys? Learn all 15. But when it comes to learning quotes off by heart, when it comes to the ones you focus on, the ones that I will cover in this poem are the five that I recommend. Why? Because these are the five poems that have come up in the past 5 years. So it is very very very unlikely that they will come up this year again. So what do you do on the day of your exam? If one of the other 10 come up, then you read that poem, you analyze that poem, and you compare it with one of these five. And if one of these five come up, then you just compare it with one of the other four. That is why guy this method works perfectly. Now remember what I'm saying. It doesn't mean you have no clue about the other 10. Of course you have a general understanding of what they're about, what are some of the key quotes, and so on. That's your revision. But when it comes to learning things off by heart, when it comes to really digging deep, these poems in this video are the five that I would like you all to focus on. All right guys, we're now going to shift over to the board and let's begin going over these. If you ever require tuition lessons, classes for English, maths or science, do head over to everythingeducation.co.uk. All of our English classes are taught by myself, Mr. Everything English. And our science and maths classes are taught by fully qualified teachers. Upon joining you get access to our student portal. This is where you hand in your homework, receive your feedback and you can chat to your teachers including myself. So guys, should you require any support with your English, maths or science for any exam board. Do head over to everything.co.uk or click the link in. When it comes to the five poems that I recommend you learn for the love and relationship cluster, it's sonet 29, neutral tone, the farmer's bride, walking away, and before you were mine. Now, let's go straight in there with sonet 29. Now, guys, I'm not going to read every single poem line by line, word for word, because we're literally going to be here for ages. I'm trying to cover five poems in one video. That's almost weeks of school learning. Now, for each poem, I've got context. I've got the form. I've got the three quotes you should learn. And then I'll give you a brief quick understanding of what this poem is about. So guys, a sonet 29 doesn't take a genius to work it out. The form of this poem is a sonet. It's a 14line poem that focuses on love. So that is the form of this poem. Now when it comes to the context, I want you guys to sp speak about Freud and the id. Now, you might get someone saying, "Sir, my teacher said that you can't use Freud because Freud was written after the poem." Guys, come on. Give me a break. Three points. Number one, every piece of context is written after the text. Who writes context for a book that hasn't even existed yet? Number two, if you ever study English literature at a university level, guys, all you do is apply theories, critical thinking, critical theories to books, to literature. And that is where Freud comes in. And number three, guys, if you understand him, use it. If you don't understand it, leave it. It's not a big deal. But Freud is lovely. Grade N context. Now Freud guys he was a psychologist and he wrote about the human brain. He said that one part of our brain is called the id and this is the part of the brain that controls our desires that controls our instincts. And he said that one instinct that we all have is the instinct to worship. Whether you worship celebrities, whether you worship God, whether you worship money, whether you worship power or whether you worship your desires, everyone worship something. And that is how we're going to link it in this poem. Because in this poem, our speaker seems to be a slave to their id. They seem to be a slave to their desires of worship. Worshiing who? They worship the other person. They worship the person that they are in love with. So form is over there, context is over there. Now let's go over the poem. The poem is in three parts. In the first part, the speaker tells us about how they cannot stop thinking about the person that they are in love with. In the second part, the poet, sorry, the speaker almost gets frustrated and they really badly want to change from thought to action. They don't want to just think about the person. They now want to see the person. And by the end of the poem, it appears that they are with the person they love. And it's a nice poem to show how when you're in love with someone, your mind is constantly occupied with that person. Is that a good thing though? Is that a bad thing? Let's talk. My first quote guys um I think of thee my thoughts to twine and bud about thee. The the quote that I want you guys to learn as wild vines about a tree. Now from this quote guys yes the writer has used a simile and yes the writer has used a metaphor because they've compared their lover to a tree. But what I want you to use here is this the analogy of wild vines about a tree. Imagine this is the tree and the vines are around the tree. It's as though the way vines are suffocating are controlling the tree. This person's thoughts are just all obsessed with that person. But the word wild implies that they can't control their thoughts. It's uncontrollable and it begs the question, is this an unhealthy obsession? Is love good or bad? Because over here you can say it's two things. Number one, it's a good thing because they're thinking about the person they love. But number two, it's a bit much. Does love in itself make you a victim of the person you love? Because you are at their mercy. There's going to be a hierarchy. One of you is going to be powerful. Now guys, the second quote is our var. And that is right over there. And the two techniques I want you guys to use here with well the three techniques is your vulture is your enjoyment and is your imperative. So over here the speaker is thinking and they're thinking and they're thinking about the person they love and they get frustrated. They get really really frustrated and they've had enough and they want to see the person now. They want that person to not be there. And when that happens guys, they get angry rather instantly renew thy presence. I want to see you. They want to now see the person they love. And then as the poem continues at the end, I do not think of thee. That could be a six structure guys because the beginning I do think of you. At the end I don't think of you because why? I don't need to because I am near to thee. That's the six structure guys between the opening and the ending that are similar but different. And I would talk about guys the juosition of in the beginning how important the thinking was and at the end how thinking is now not important. Now how do you understand this poem guys? This poem is a lovely poem to talk about the relationship of two people that are in love. Two people that are in love are constantly thinking of one another. And if they're not thinking of one another, they want to always be together. And the writer uses nature. Nature is used as an analogy to tell the story of their love. Nature is wild. Nature is uncontrollable. But nature is beautiful. And nature is almost something you should be in awe of. So it's that analogy of how in this poem, love is not inherently a bad thing. Love is presented in a positive way in this poem. That's how I would sit this in my mind. So there's many other poems guys where love is quite negative. This is a nice comparison poem to keep in your back pocket. But also guys, you can flip it and talk about the opposite. How in this poem, love can also be seen in the negative because it makes you very obsessive. It makes you weak because the person you are in love with, they seem to have a lot more power over you. But you get my drift, guys. You can use this poem in all those ways should you need to. Now guys, poem number two is the poem neutral tones. Guys, poem number two is the poem neutral tones. Now when it comes to the form of this poem, I would like you to make a note that this is an epic poem. An epic poem is a poem about an event. And what is the event in this poem? It is the separation. It is the split of these two lovers. Now neutral guys, if something is neutral, it's 50/50. It's not fully in or fully there and it's not fully away. And that is what this poem is referring to. Firstly, guys, it's a lovely poem to compare to the sonet we just read. But it's also a lovely poem to compare to other poems that present love in a good or a bad way. In this poem, guys, love is not the best. Now, the three quotes that I would like you all to learn are the three that I've highlighted. Court one, court two, and court number three. Now, we stood by a pond that winter day. It appears that this is their place to meet. This is the place where they link up. And the sun was white as though chidden by God. The word chidden means told off. And it begins with pathetic fallacy. But what pathetic fallacy is this guys? The sun was white. Do you know when you just get told off and the color of your skin changes because you're embarrassed or you're scared? That's what's happening here guys. Here the personification and the pathetic fallacy is very very important because it sets the it sets the scene. What scene is being set nature is against this relationship. Nature is not happy. But number two, whatever is about to go down here is not going to be good. Whatever is going to happen here is not good. This is not a lovely setting. This is not a romantic setting. It's not a warm setting. It's a cold, sad, depressing setting where this is reflected in nature and as a result, it would be reflected in the two people. And that's the pathetic fallacy. So when from the very beginning guys this poem shows us how love is not always good and that nature is a reflection of this via the patheticaly. Now guys quote number two as the poem goes on we realize that these two lovers after years and years of being together things began to change. Things weren't as spicy. Things weren't as amazing as they were in the beginning. And as time went on they kind of drifted apart. And the quote I want you guys to look at guys number two is the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing. Deadest guy is a very good superlative. The juosition and the enjoyment all implies here what that in this quote love comes across as being very very forced. Love should be natural. Love doesn't need to be forced. But in this quote, it comes across guys that love is painful. To even smile is a chore. Any sign of happiness is a chore. And I want you guys to argue that this quote shows us that love by itself is not enough. Love by itself is not enough because it's as though as time has gone on, the love has kind of worn away. The love has disappeared. And here guys is the justosition of the smile being the deadest thing. There's nothing lifeless. There's nothing of life here guys. Quote number three. Since then, keen lessons that love deceits. Now here is my var. Because the vulture the writer takes a shift above this part. Stanza one and stanza two. the writer and three the writer tells us their experience as an observation but here guys they make a very very powerful point and this is the vulture right there since then meaning since all this time I've learned one thing and this is the personification that love deceives lovely lovely end quote guys it presents love as being very very very dangerous And it's almost as a warning to everyone else. Don't get so wrapped up the wild vines wrapping the tree. Don't get so wrapped up in your love that you think love is everything because love does not last. Love can have a terrible ending. And I want you guys to make a note here that it appears that the love of these two went against society. Why am I saying that? If you look at where they meet above here, we stood by a pond that winter's day. It gives the impression that their love was a secret. Their love was something that maybe they shouldn't be been doing contextually. And as a result, nature is against their love. God is against their love and their love was unsuccessful. But this poem guys is a complete juosition to the first poem. In the first poem, love was the best thing going. In this second poem, love isn't the way it's made out to be. Poem number three, guys. So, you have so far, guys, you got two lovely poems to use as your comparisons. Let's look at guys. Okay, cool, guys. The farmer's bride is one of my favorite poems, by the way. Now, The Farmer's Bride is one of my favorite poems. Now, it's a dramatic monologue because you've got one person talking the entire poem. You've got the farmer and essentially guys, this is quite a long poem, so we're not going to read all of it, but the form of the poem is dramatic monologue. And in this poem, guys, basically, a farmer gets married to a girl and he brings her home and she isn't really happy and she ends up running away. He goes and brings her back and when he brings her back she doesn't do what he would expect her to do. She's not the best wife and they end up being husband and wife but living like strangers. That's basic the poem. Now guys the first uh point I want to make is when it comes to context the best context to use for this poem is patriarchy. This poem shows us the dangers of patriarchy because patriarchy inherently made men powerful and made m made women weak. And this shows us the impact that it has. So guys, the first quote I want you guys to use is three summers since 3 years ago I chose a maid. That's your first quote. Chrommorphism is your first technique. I chose. He's objectifying the woman. He's speaking about his wife like she's an object. Second quote is juosition. That's not normal. But guys, unlike the other two poems, this poem doesn't even mention love. Forget good or bad love. Love is irrelevant. I'm going to choose my wife. Now, based upon what? In a patriarchal society, what were men choosing wives based upon? Guys, it's going to be her looks. And it shows you the power that men had that they can take their pick of women. But this poem guys, it removes love out of the equation. Now what happens when you remove love? Your relationships becomes very very hierarchical. Meaning there's a leader and there's a follower. It's not like this or this or this. Rather, it's like this. There's one in power. There's the other one who's following. There's the farmer. there's his bride. It's like a boss and a worker relationship. A slave a a a master to a slave relationship rather than a husband and wife loving relationship. And that is how I would like you all to use that first quote. This first quote is very good to show how the powerful patriarchal society went about marriage. Now guys, the second core, his wife, she had enough and she ran away. And when she ran away, like an animal, she was hunted down by these men. And they eventually found her. And when they found her, they brought her back home. And after bringing her back home, the last line is the quote that I would like you to use. If you can remember all three, go for it because it fits quite well. But if you can't, just remember the last part here. The technique that I want you guys to use is the VA and the dramatic monologue. Why? The dramatic monologue here is very, very important because we never hear from the wife's point of view. It's a one-sided point. It comes across that she was kind of ungrateful and so on, but we never really know why she ran away, why she was unhappy, what the problem was. Was the farmer rude to her? Was the farmer abusive? What was the problem? Now, here guys is the var because up until this part of the poem, the farmer was very, very, very, very patient with his wife. But over here, guys, he's had enough. What does he say? After we caught her and we bought her back home, I turned the key upon her fast like an animal. I just locked her up. God, this is his wife, not a prisoner. There's no love. There's no feeling. There's no care. He didn't ask her, "Babe, what happened? Why did you run away? You should have told me. We could have ran away together." I'm joking, guys. But you get my drift. A relationship void of love is a relationship of a prisoner. And that is what his wife is going through. But guys, it also makes a note that in a weird way, you can argue at this point you feel sorry for the farmer. How if you put this poem into context and the context of a patriarchal society, guy, the way his wife's behaving isn't how you're supposed to behave, this guy is going to be the laughingstock of the town or the village or the farming area. His wife ran away. That is not contextually something that was accepted. And that is why you can also use that analogy at this point of the text. Okay, cool guys. Quote number three is the one I've got over here. After all that, after all that back and forth, he's got his wife. Might as well not get her because by the end of the poem, they have a relationship by name, but they have no relationship as husband and wife. The quote reads as follows. Guys, the quote reads as follows. A lone poor maid is but a stare betw twix us. Okay guys, here is your foreshadowing. It foreshadows the downfall of their relationship because nothing is left. And I want you guys to use the cesora. The cesora over here implies how the regular pause shows the disjointness in their relationship. alone poor mate. She's up in the attic all by himself. All by herself. And all they have between them is a glance. No hug, no kiss, no holding hands, no words of romance, nothing. They exist like their roommates. They live like two prisoners living in a jail cell. And this poem guys, it really shows you the importance of love. Regardless of job title, regardless of your class, regardless of your wealth, regardless of your family background, if a relationship has love, you can kind of work things out. But over here, guys, there's nothing. There's nothing at all between these guys. And it shows us how a patriarchal society really destroyed people's lives. This man chose his wife the way you go to the shops and buy a piece of candy and that reflected in their entire relationship because unfortunately guys that is not how you can go about picking a wife for yourself. All right guys, two more to go. Walking away. I like this poem. It's quite a sad poem. Now guys, Walking Away is a poem about a father and son. Guys, I have an app. I have an app, Everything Education. There is an app in the App Store and an app in the Play Store. So, if you click the link in the description, do go and download that app. The app has almost 15,000 questions and it is updated weekly. I believe it's on the verge of becoming one of the best apps for your learning. It covers everything for English, everything for maths and everything for science. So guys, do head over to the app store or the play store and do download the everything education. A nice poem to use guys and it's a nice poem to compare to the other family poems. Now it's an epic poem. What's the event of this poem? It's the separation between the father and son. That's the vent that I would like you all to use for this poem. And contextually guys, this poem is based upon the poet's life where he sent his son to boarding school and he talks about how he regrets that decision because it almost ruined him and his son's relationship. Now the poem begins guys with a flashback and it shows us how the speaker cannot get over what happened 18 years ago almost to the day. Whatever happened that day it stands out in his mind like a fresh wound. He can't forget about it. He can't get over it. That day was an important day for him. Then the poet uh continues guys and he talks about the separation and then he talks about what love means to him after experiencing that. Now the first quote guys I want you guys to use is like a satellite wrenched from his orbit going drifting away. He compares the day his son went to boarding school like a satellite being wrenched from his orbit and then going drifting away into the sky. Guys, our vulture in this poem is very early. Our shift, our turning point in this poem is very early. This man lost his son like that too early, too quick. And that's the that's why the vulture is positioned so early in the poem. And I want you guys to talk about the simile here. Like a satellite wrench from its orbit and it goes drifting away. It's as though his son got lost. He lost his son to the galaxy. Meaning what? He lost his son to the world. Now this part, guys, it shows the idea of instant separation. He wasn't ready to let go. He couldn't teach his son lessons. He couldn't teach his son how to be a man, how to live in the world. A nice comparison is climbing my grandfather. But then the poem continues guys and he talks about how his son almost didn't want to leave but the father had to force him. The hesitant figure is how he describes his son. It's a very very very important adjective. This was a forced separation not a mutual separation. Now eding guys is when you go forward and come back. When you go forward and come back. And here it implies that the son was not ready. There was a constant back and forth and it you almost feel sorry for this child because this child was forced to grow up. This child was not allowed to live its innocence. It wasn't allowed to be a child. And then guys the last quote the poem ends guys with a lot of regret. I have had worse partings, but none that so knows my mind still. Meaning that despite everything the father has experienced in life, one of the worst things he's experienced is the parting that he had from his son. And the last quote that I want you guys to remember is this is how the father justified his actions. Love is proved in the letting go. Think about the poems we read. Farmer's bride. He keeps the wife despite knowing that she's unhappy. Neutral tones. They separate. Sonnet 29. They stay together. In this one, the father ends the poem with a very, very, very strong statement. And I argue it's juosition. Why is it juosition? Because I argue this quote goes against his actual true beliefs because you can tell the guy is sad but this is like a coping mechanism. He says that to prove how much you love someone you must let them go. Really is the way you let your son go the correct way of letting go? But I want you guys to debate that depending upon the question. But I would argue that this is more as a coping mechanism. The last point I want you guys to make um is the foreshadowing of the loneliness of the father because if that's what he truly believes then he's never going to get with his son. They're never going to unite because he justifies loving someone by letting them be separate. But this is a nice poem guys when it comes to family. Uh family is a big theme in the lover and relationship poetry. And some of the poems present the love of a family in a positive way. This poem presents how the love of a parent and a child can sometimes be very very difficult because as the parent you must make difficult decisions that sometimes ruin the love the relationship that you have with your child. Is it for the good? Is it for the bad? That is something that they can decide. Now guys, the last poem that I want you guys to focus on is the poem Before You Were Mine. Now this poem guys has four stanzas and again it's a very good poem to be looked at in the in regards to the idea of family and it almost proposes the argument that love shouldn't be all consuming. Love shouldn't be individual. What do I mean by love shouldn't be individual. Just because you love that person doesn't mean you can't have a wider life. This is a person who's a part of your life. They're not your life. It's a nice comparison to make with sonic 29. Almost says, "Mom, you must have really loved it before we were born. your life must have been amazing before we were born which is a very strange way of a daughter looking at uh her mother and her relationship. Now the poem guys, second stanza is the first quote. The thought of me doesn't occur occur in the ballroom with a thousand eyes. Now it's a hyperbole of the thousand eyes and it's a it's a szora guys over here. I'm not here yet. Pause. The thought doesn't occur until over there. And the szora shows us about how these thoughts are rare. They're not normal. They're irregular at this moment in time. But it shows you how before love the mother was free. The mother wasn't following an order the way lions do. She was doing whatever she wanted. Hence the sorora emphasiz this. But the first quote shows us that love can be controlling. Love can be can be can be can be can be can be suffocating because the daughter implies the mother was happier before I was born. Now the second quote guys this is our vulture. It's our turning point. The decade ahead of my loud possessive yell was the best one. Now this I would argue guys this quote here has a very sad undertone especially the the a at the end with the question mark. But why is this the vulture? Because in the beginning the writer almost observes and talks about how the life of the mother was before. But she never gives her viewpoint and her feeling until now. And it shows us that maybe they haven't got the best relationship because she's looking and thinking, "Mom, this happiness that you have, I can't recognize it. It appears that you were the happiest the decade before I arrived." And it's a very sad part of the poem because it shows us that the mother appears to be happier without this daughter. Um, and that's the Walter guys. That's the turning point. And that is where I would bring in the narrative story because it tells the story of two halves. It tells the story of the mother before the baby and the mother after the child. Now guys, the last quote is almost a a a a push back to how we should view love. Glamorous love lasts. Glamorous love lasts. What is that about guys? Here you've got your juosition of how they describe love and the enjoyment implies love carries on forever. But it kind of ruins the essence of love. For love to survive in this poem, what's the writer saying? It's like showbiz. Love needs to be nice and fun, dancing and restaurants and it needs to be glamored up. But that's not how love is presented in any other poem. Surely that's fake. Isn't that the makeup of love? If you need to be doing things, going to eat, going to restaurants, and jazzing up your relationship, what happens when one day you remove all those things out of the relationship, and it's just you and the other person? Based upon this poem, there's nothing. Your love is empty. And this poem, unlike all the other poems, it really shows us how love requires makeup. Love requires lots of other things to make it amazing and by itself is is not enough. Now guys, this poem is a fantastic poem to compare to other poems that present relationships between parents or even love as as romance to the idea about how love doesn't have to be all consuming. Love doesn't have to be so infatuated. What does this poem show us? What's the most amazing type of love according to this poem? I would argue it's loving yourself. Before you were mine, before the mother had the child, before the mother belonged to the child, what did she have? Just herself. She was doing whatever she wanted, however she wanted, whenever she wanted. Is that real love? That's something you can debate in your exam. Now guys, these five points I've given you. Three quotes. Three quotes. three quotes. Three and three for each and every single one of them. I've given you some context. I've given you the form. I've given you the techniques you should analyze for each quote. And I've given you an overall discussion about how you should be understanding these five poems. Now guys, all you need to do between now and your exams is you must number one learn these five poems. Learn the form, learn the context, learn the quotes, and then go to past papers. Go to everything education.co.uk. pull up past papers and then see can you compare these five with whatever they give you in the exam and get that practice done. All right guys, love and relationship crew. I hope you found that video beneficial. It's been Mr. Everything English. Peace.