Percy Shelley's 'Love's Philosophy': Mr Bruff Analysis

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[@mrbruff]

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[@CaitlinBiddy143]

I really read this as unrequited love, this man is so confused as to how everything around him is accompanied but the one person he loves won’t accept him/doesn’t return his feelings. I don’t get a sense of ‘pressure’ at all, I really feel moved when I read this, I sense a hurt emotion, it feels really heart wrenching and bare

[@danielaruilova4329]

I had the same feeling and perception of the poem since the first time

[@paige8653]

Am I the only one that thought this poem was about Shelly longing after a girl who doesn’t love him back?

[@milliee3320]

Interesting point about the two verses. You can also see that the two stanzas are used to further enforce the speakers dominant idea of nothing being single. The stanza is coupled with another just like how the speaker feels he should be coupled with the target of his feelings.

[@ameliaisabelle83]

So helpful! We studied these poems over a year ago, and this really helps to remind me of points before exams - and to give me entirely new points I didn't even consider!

[@mrbruff]

+Emico Braxton great

[@r.i2007]

Well, did you pass?

[@helen6819]

exam is tomorrow, but in the first stanza when (he)says 'law divine', he is stating that not being together in said relationship would be going against God's will. Aside from this, the same line that this is written on features a trochee on 'all', emphasising nature as well as the couple having to abide by said law. This ties into the ironic point that Shelley was an atheist, possibly being satirical as mentioned in the video, but also maybe showing his desperation and willingness to see past his views to further his argument. Just some thoughts :) xx Good luck everyone !

[@krishanu-d1k]

Shelley was atheist, but non-theist.

[@r.i2007]

Good luck on the exam!

[@zaracalvert]

This coming September is when I start yr11 and this channel is wonderful with helping with the poems and helps me with my independent studies on top of that-Thanks Mr Bruff!

[@mrbruff]

+Zårå no problem!

[@r.i2007]

Good luck in year 11!

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This guy is awesome - I don't get taught this goodness in school!!

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[@DiamondHearted]

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[@sumanthamcmahon6706]

The penultimate line is wrong - it is not 'all these kisses', it is 'What is all this sweet work worth'

[@kb1zzle29]

Sumantha McMahon In the AQA anthology it says “What are all these kissings worth”

[@brufflover6694]

And that was great Mr Bruff thanks I wish I could have your brain for the exam 😰 only a week left and I'm just starting to revise aiming for a 7 💪🏼

[@leahcollins8037]

Only a day left and I'm revising... kill me :(

[@sarah-ne6yq]

same

[@reaperbleaper1242]

don't worry you are not alone as I am revising now too. just watching videos from the playlist

[@m.pymer20]

same

[@brufflover6694]

Ok thanks guys 😅

[@baleeghabohamdy526]

اجتـهـاد بليغ حمدي في ترجَـمَة قـصِيدة Love's Philosophy By Shelley ↓ فلسـفـة الحُـبِّ للشاعِـر : شِـيـلي The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean ◘ The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion كمْ عَـانـقَ النهرُ نـبْـعـاً وكمْ توَسَّـدَ من البحرِ المُحيطِ صدْراً رَحيما ◘ وتضَـوَّعَ الـمَـدَى دَوْماً بأرِيـجِ أنـفـاسِ النسـيـمِ يـومَ أنْ لاقَـى نسِيما _______________________ Nothing in the world is single All things by a law divine ◘ In one spirit meet and mingle Why not I with thine فلا شيءَ في الكَوْنِ أَعزَبٌ هَـذِي أقـدَارُنا بـيَـدِ الإلـهِ قـدْ نُظِّـمَـتْ تنظيما ◘ وِئامُ الرُّوحِ يَجمَعُ كُلَّ نفسٍ فإلامَ أنتِ وإيايَ نستقِى بالبُـعْـدِ ماءً حَمـيما ________________________ See the mountains kiss high Heaven And the waves clasp one another • No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdained its brother وجبالُ الكَـوْنِ في شُغُـلٍ تلـثُـم ثغْـرَ السمَاءِ ومـوْجْ البحْـرِ إلـفٌ بكـفِّ إلـفٍ قـيْـدَ اللقاءِ • والزهْرُ إن يُـبْـدِ لأرحامِهِ يوماً عَينَ ازدرَاءِ فلن يـلْـقَ مِن ربّهِ عَفـواً عن جَريمةِ الخُيَلاءِ ________________________ And the sunlight clasps the earth And the moonbeams kiss the sea • What are all these ( meetings ) worth If thou ( meet) not me وَضَوْءُ الشمْسِ كَمْ صَافحَ من أرضٍ والـبَـدْرُ كمْ قـبَّـلَ خَـدَّ المَاءِ • أُنسُ الرُّوحِ بالرُّوحِ كـمْ لنا يُجْـدِي ؟ إنْ لمْ نذُقْ مَعاً شهْدَ اللقاءِ ◘◘ ترجَـمَـة بلـيْغ حـمْـدي ◘◘

[@namalpasha2535]

Baleegh AboHamdy wow this was really helpful 🙌🏼

[@jaketaylor9961]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! I actually understand English now because of you! Im sitting my PPE exams in February and I could not do it at all without you :)

[@sumay.a1x]

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[@ssleeman8514]

The rhyme is also ABAB which is like split up couplets (common is typical love poetry) suggesting that the speaker feels its unconventional to not be (physically) together. I don't know what do you guys think? 🤔

[@mrbruff]

+Sophie Sleeman good idea

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[@mrbruff]

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[@r.i2007]

yes yes, thank you very much, appreciate that, good luck on your exam!

[@brufflover6694]

Ahh there's so many views but why not more likes people! Come on drop a like for our favourite guys 🙂

[@ruggierodilecce4701]

If you were to choose one, would you go with this poem as a lyric poem or a dramatic monologue?

[@lilyyoung4360]

Love your videos - incredibly helpful :) Could you do a video planning and writing a response to a sample poetry cluster question? Thanks

[@mrbruff]

+Lily Y done in my literature ebook at mrbruff.com

[@thepoetrysanctuary9762]

Love this poem so much that I recorded a recital for The Sensory Sanctuary

[@katycheetham3573]

Hi. Are you the same Mick Bruff who used to teach at Southgate School? If so I was in the English Department for a year in the early 90's with Brenda Howarth as HoD. If so, hi!

[@mrbruff]

+Katy Cheetham afraid not. I am Andrew Bruff who was a student in the early 90s!

[@r.i2007]

Sorry Kathy Cheetham, it appears that Southgate School does not exist and Mick Bruff also does not exist. Sorry for any inconveniences.

[@bredamaune2028]

A brilliant interpretation of this poem. Thank you.

[@mrbruff]

No problem!

[@rawxsa]

I am singing this song, well this poem was set to a song with the same tittle by Roger Quilter, and I needed help with the text and understanding what this was about. I feel so so so so so much prepared to practice and sing this song with knowing what I am singing about.

[@mrbruff]

+Raúl Alejandro Facundo Gòmez great!

[@jackcook6219]

hey bruff, thank you for the great video again!. Do you think that iambic pentameter is used in every two lines of the poem to illustrate the idea of pairing?I am unsure if this is a valid point about the poem.

[@mrbruff]

yes that's a good point

[@lauren3409]

Hi! I have a question about masculine and feminine rhyme in the poem, with "river" "ever" and "Ocean" "emotion"... teachers at my school say that "Ocean/emotion" is masculine rhyme and "river/ever" is feminine rhyme. Is this correct or is this video correct? Your reasoning seems clear to me but my teacher begs to differ! Thank you for the poetry analysis videos by the way, they really help me!

[@mrbruff]

+Lauren :) this would disagree en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminine_rhyme as it says that what your teacher says is masculine is actually feminine

[@lauren3409]

Thank you!

[@ejtaylor851]

Hmm, I was always taught that feminine rhymes were ones that end with an unstressed syllable, which is partly backed up by the Wiki definition: "in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed". Don't the majority of the rhymes end with an unstressed syllable in this poem? 'RIV-er', 'EV-er', 'O-cean', 'eMO-tion'. Lines alternate between iambic (with an odd syllable count so the last one is unstressed), or trochaic (with even syllable counts so again the final syllable is unstressed). The only exceptions that I can see, which ARE masculine, are 'di-VINE' and 'THINE' in the first stanza, and a couple more in the second stanza: 'EARTH' 'WORTH', 'SEA', 'ME'. A website (study.com/academy/lesson/feminine-rhyme-definition-examples.html) says: "With feminine rhyme, the syllable that's doing the rhyming is the second-to-last syllable, and the ends of the rhyming words must have the same sound. Words like 'label' and 'table' have a feminine rhyme. The first syllables are louder, and they rhyme with each other, while the second syllables are softer and make the same sound." 'River' and 'ever' are a bit weird, because they don't have the first syllable as a perfect rhyme... RIV ... EV ... but I don't think they can be classed as masculine because they don't quite fit a feminine rhyme? Most definitions of masculine rhyme say that "the final, stressed syllable in the word is the one that rhymes." The poem's metre forces you to say 'RIV-uh, 'for-EV-uh', not 'ri-VER, 'FOR-uh-VER', which would be masculine... (and makes you sound like Len Goodman...) This person's blog (madameanglaise.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/an-analysis-of-loves-philosophy-by-percy-bysshe-shelley-for-aqa-english-literature-gcse/) agrees with me: "The rhyme scheme is neat, if not exactly perfect, with “river” and “ever” forming an imperfect echo. Some of the rhymes are feminine (where the word has two or syllables and the last is unstressed, like RIVer and EVer, Ocean and eMOtion, SINgle) In fact, in the first stanza, only diVINE and THINE are masculine rhymes, finishing with a stressed syllable. The rhyme scheme gets progressively more masculine with EARTH - SEA - WORTH - ME towards the end." However, there are other websites that support Lauren's teacher (www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/poetryperformance/shelley/poem2/shelley2.html): "linebreaks sometimes fall on light, feminine endings such as ‘river’ / ‘single’, and sometimes on stressed, masculine endings - ‘ocean’ / ‘earth’". What is one to think? :p

[@loujc1]

Generally, how should we structure our answer for the seen poetry question for GCSE (aiming grade 7 and above)? E.g. Is there a good set structure like PEED?

[@lourdesboyer6809]

PEALEA

[@loujc1]

Point Evidence Analysis Link Evidence Analysis?

[@mirab7233]

Louie Cawood My teachers suggest PETAL (Point, Evidence, Technique, Analysis of E and T, Link to Poem)

[@veritysleeps1420]

We use TEA. Technique "the writer uses ... to ..." Evidence "this is seen in the line..." Analysis "which suggests..." and analysis should include close, effect on the reader, symbolism etc. Good luck

[@fh17522]

We use WETTER. Writer (the writer says...), Evidence, Technique, Terminology, Effect and Reader. 👍

[@amicarr9256]

I thought Percy shelley was a woman 😂

[@narjish3751]

omg same i thought i was the only one that thought that

[@aleena9495]

Ami Carr that’s Mary Shelley, his wife, that you must be thinking about. She wrote Frankenstein and I often get confused when writing about Percy in Poetry .

[@vivik6844]

Hi, what can you compare this poem with? Thanks :)

[@johnholme138]

Really good video, thank you. I have just one question left: do you know who the poem is aimed towards, by any chance? Thank you.

[@martinkriznic2331]

. To bean or not to bean. Hope this helps! Only use in case of emergency

[@philrichards9044]

In my CGP revision guide, it says 'what is all this sweet worth work' not 'what are all these kissings worth' ???? Confused.

[@elizabethodusina1744]

Could we say that the persona is so desperate he is beginning to fantasise about the potential experience he may have with this woman if she does give consent. Due to the use of the verbs 'mix' and 'mingle somewhat reflecting the declaration of foreplay, which will later lead to sexual intercourse through the use of the verbs 'clasps' and 'kiss'

[@hj6742]

This really helped me, thank you so much!!

[@mrbruff]

Good.

[@r.i2007]

@@mrbruff Good

[@saraha5791]

what is the effect of having monosyllabic questions

[@billyblueberry]

Not the hero we need, but the hero we deserve.

[@UnderscoreZeroLP]

I'd say the exact opposite.

[@imthattypagirlxo731]

I think it’s the opposite mate

[@hyenaplays5860]

the mixture of form may emphasise the fact that everything mingles and merges..?...?.

[@philippax7042]

I love your videos so much!!!

[@mrbruff]

+Philippa X thanks!

[@mmh607]

When will you be continuing the list of poems?

[@mrbruff]

+MM H October I hope

[@amaanmehmood7904]

u saved my life

[@amaanmehmood7904]

u deserve a noble peace prize

[@Mal-gw5wk]

Hi, is dramatic monologue a structural technique

[@mrbruff]

No that's the form.

[@whatislifebro]

15:41 btw

[@marib5440]

Sir you hvent made an analysis video on farmer's bride?

[@chloejarrett8281]

so helpful! thank you!

[@mrbruff]

+Chloe Jarrett good

[@anishaahmed5549]

Currently making poetry notes with your videos. I'll see if my hard work when I do my mock.

[@Surfing566]

Did it help, what did you get

[@r.i2007]

@@Surfing566 duh, she is still doing her mocks. Wait for it.

[@sachadow8188]

The ebook isn’t on the website mr bruff.

[@mrbruff]

Yes I'm afraid it's no longer available.

[@farah.b.a407]

THANK YOU SO MUCH sir !! شكرا جزيلا

[@mrbruff]

No problem!

[@r.i2007]

Shukran Jazkalla :) i know more than English

[@kkhan1856]

Nice, thanks. If this poem comes up I am good

[@drearyplane8259]

To anyone who'll read - while looking at a textbook I noticed that the second line was different to in the video and anthology. Can anyone explain?

[@mrbruff]

Sometimes there are different versions of poems - go with what you have in your exam anthology.

[@drearyplane8259]

mrbruff That was quick for a two-year old video - I was still watching it! Thanks for the reply

[@loveen3186]

Sir, what is a formal way of say that the religious reference in this poem could just be a joke ?

[@fayeh.e2412]

where in your exam answer would you talk about the meaning of the title? would it just be backing up your language form and structure points you've already made in your answer?

[@mrbruff]

+faye elsaddig whenever relevant

[@benwood8694]

is it about Byron?

[@goodnessolaoti9450]

Please could you do some analysis on London and Storm on the island.

[@mrbruff]

+Goodness Olaoti yes!

[@jakefranco1520]

Anyone else got this tomorrow?

[@dawood__9765]

exam style question for this ??

[@alinashah1457]

Oh My God where were you ?? This entire time 😮 why didn’t i found you earlier 😭😭

[@jamieakajigen4372]

please can you make videos on animal farm?

[@watermelon1669]

What you compare this with

[@suzannette]

thank you so much :)

[@Nk50g]

Lovely content 👍🏾

[@Brightlight-ni8tz]

Can u pls do the farmers bride ??

[@klaudia8078]

I'm stuck between comparing this with 'Sonnet 29' and 'Neutral Tones' 😩😩

[@zlatanibra9823]

jibooty stan when we two parted is better if you're talking of love

[@pseudonymlana]

I would say Sonnet 29

[@sabz85]

what would we coment about the language of this poem?

[@jaiyembasani7243]

thank you

[@mrbruff]

no problem

[@charlotte-alicedarnton3031]

Is there a farmers bride analysis

[@mrbruff]

Coming soon!

[@diamondt5708]

hello, Mr Bruff can u do a video on English language ?

[@mrbruff]

+diamond devries I have 42: check the playlists

[@diamondt5708]

thank you x

[@Hannah-hp1mv]

What other poem would you compare this poem to?

[@ramaboy10]

neutral tones is a good one as it contains a lot about nature

[@Hannah-hp1mv]

amaR A thanks :))

[@lumabled]

thank you king

[@hannahlee5455]

love your videos

[@georginafrimpong6296]

amazing!!! thanks

[@mrbruff]

Thanks

[@Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan]

Really what is "Philosophy", that shit was so deep.

[@reagalatte]

good vid thanks man

[@katycheetham3573]

Ah well. Good luck anyway ...you're doing a great job!

[@r.i2007]

Thank you, I try my hardest to get you guys from a E to D, good luck on your exam!

[@nehamaster8277]

Great video but is it possible the narrator is a female instead of a male?

[@mrbruff]

Yes

[@omid25nn_]

good help thanks! however, you take waaayyy too long to get into the actual analysis

[@ben4carandfin]

Anybody from Brune Park here

[@zebrasRdistance]

Syllogism :)

[@kyledobinson8809]

Anyone from st Mary's?

[@benryhanks8841]

Just finished my English homework, decent video, but it was bit boring, maybe add more colourful stuff

[@primroseseven2850]

Is this a dramatic monologue or just a monologue? Nothing dramatic happens - no death, no murder, no evil thoughts, no wicked deception or sinister revelations and so on and so on.

[@UnderscoreZeroLP]

That's not what 'dramatic' means in this case. 'Dramatic monologue' is one noun. Sort of like how 'dramatic irony' isn't when something is ironic, but really dramatically so.

[@wolfhd7509]

to say he was athiest he likes relating to heaven

[@basicallycorpse417]

My bro

[@benryhanks8841]

Like HARAMBE 😂👍

[@itsaeri9403]

very good pls pin

[@Sdd753]

Amazing loved it. Don't know her I'll do without you ❤️

[@r.i2007]

Well you would probably see the error in your sentence without him, This is your English teacher coming back to haunt you and signing out.