Love Poetry through the Ages: An Anthology

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Love through the generations: the confusion of the adolescents as they embark on their first forays into sex and romance contrasted with their parents' extramarital affairs.

Exemplar student response - band 5 - The Awakening and AQA Anthology of Love Poetry through the Ages: post-1900 First love: adolescent crushes e.g. Claire has a crush on Benjamin, Doug has a crush on Claire; Cicely as the love of Benjamin's life (told from the point of view of Benjamin in his lengthy, naïve rant on first love in the closing chapter).

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The sample assessment materials give you details about some of the aspects of Love through the ages each text covers. Don't forget to consult the specification for a list of possible aspects. both texts present women as suffering and enduring but arguably no more than (or perhaps even less than) male characters. Unrequited love: both Gatsby and George love and idealise women who are in love with Tom, which in the end leads to their demise. Love and loss: Lois' successful search for love through the personal columns is tragically rewarded, at the point of romantic bliss, by Malcolm's death; Miriam's loss of dignity in her affair with Bill which sees him return to his wife and sees Miriam disappear; on/off relationships of Barbara Chase and Miles Plumb and of Benjamin and Cicely. deception; proximity and distance; marriage; approval and disapproval. Set texts Shakespeare and poetry

Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby and Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club as the prose texts for comparison. The Rotters' Club appears on the AS set text list only so, Extramarital affairs: Tom's hypocrisy that he has a history of extramarital affairs, including a current affair with Myrtle, and yet is outraged at the thought of Daisy having an affair with Gatsby; George's discovery of Myrtle's infidelity leads to the final tragedy of the novel. Familial love: Daisy's indifference to her own daughter; Gatsby's father's pride at his son's achievements.Exemplar student response - band 2 - The Awakening and AQA Anthology of Love Poetry through the Ages: post-1900