Song: Love Armed – Aphra Behn

• A'Love in Fantastic Triumph sat'
• B'Whilst bleeding hearts around him flowed'
• C'For whom fresh pains he did create'
• D'And strange tyrannic power he showed'

• Apride
• Bcruelty
• Csighs
• Devery killing dart
• Elanguishments

• AIt is written in iambic tetrameter, giving a steady beat.
• BIt is written as a song, with two regular eight-line stanzas.
• CIt uses a consistent alternating rhyme scheme.
• DIt is written in free verse with no fixed rhythm.
• EIt is a sonnet of fourteen lines.

• ALove is personified as a powerful and cruel god of war.
• BThe poem alludes to the Roman figure of love, Cupid.
• CThe allusion challenges traditional ideas of romance.
• DThe allusion presents love as gentle and playful.
• EThe god is presented as weak and defeated.

• Love sits in triumph while bleeding hearts flow around him
• The speaker contrasts the loved one's 'bright eyes' with their own desire
• Love takes pride and cruelty from the loved one, and sighs and fears from the speaker
• The speaker concludes that only their own heart is harmed

• Love is presented as a triumphant conqueror
• Unrequited love is shown to be one-sided and imbalanced
• Love is shown to take from both the speaker and the loved one
• The speaker and loved one have together created a 'deity' of love

True or false?

True or false?

True or false?

• AOnly the speaker's heart is harmed, while the loved one's heart remains free
• BBoth the speaker and the loved one are equally wounded
• COnly the loved one is harmed, while the speaker remains free
• DNeither is harmed; love is presented as harmless

• APride and cruelty, and every killing dart
• BSighs and tears, and languishments and fears
• CDesire enough to undo the amorous world
• DBright eyes that hurl fire

• AAs the 'victor' that is 'free'
• BAs 'bleeding' and wounded
• CAs 'languishing' and full of fear
• DAs 'tyrannic' and cruel

• ASighs and tears
• BLanguishments and fears
• CPride and cruelty
• DKilling darts
• EBright eyes

True or false?

True or false?

• AAs a strange tyrant who creates fresh pains
• BAs a gentle god who brings comfort
• CAs a playful child who shoots arrows
• DAs a victim of unrequited love

• ALove in fantastic triumph sat
• BWhilst bleeding hearts around him flowed
• CFor whom fresh pains he did create
• DAnd strange tyrannic power he showed

• AIt portrays Love as enthroned, looking down upon his victories like a conqueror.
• BIt suggests Love is weak and exhausted by the suffering he has caused.
• CIt implies Love is hiding from the speaker and avoiding responsibility.
• DIt shows Love is seated beside the speaker as an equal companion.

• ALove treats the suffering of others as a careless game or amusement.
• BLove uses the loved one's eyes to heal the wounds of those who suffer.
• CLove hurls fire in order to protect the speaker from heartbreak.
• DLove's fire is a serious weapon used only in moments of great danger.

• AUnsettle or ruin the world of love.
• BFasten or tie together the world of love.
• CReveal or explain the world of love.
• DForget or ignore the world of love.

• AThe emotive language 'fresh pains' and 'tyrannic power', which presents Love as gloating and sadistic.
• BThe use of the word 'bright' to describe the loved one's eyes.
• CThe repetition of the pronoun 'his' to show that Love owns everything he takes.
• DThe use of the word 'Thus' to begin the final stanza.

• AIt gives the poem a steady beat.
• BIt slows the speaker's voice, creating a melodramatic effect.
• CIt creates a solemn tone through the slow, steady pace.
• DIt makes the poem sound chaotic and irregular throughout.
• EIt removes all sense of rhythm from the poem.

• AIt is written as a song.
• BIt has two regular stanzas, each of eight lines.
• CIt follows a disciplined rhythm of alternating rhyming lines.
• DIt is written in free verse with no rhyme scheme.
• EIt has three stanzas of six lines each.

• AIt is structured as two stanzas that generally follow a steady, slow-paced rhythm.
• BMost lines end with punctuated pauses, which creates a solemn tone.
• CThe first line uses a trochee instead of an iamb, subverting traditional ideals of romantic love.
• DThe poem is structured as a single unbroken stanza.
• EThe poem's rhythm is completely irregular and unpredictable throughout.

True or false?

True or false?

• ABy giving love so much attention, humans create a 'God' of the concept, giving it too much power.
• BLove is a real god who exists independently of human attention.
• CThe speaker and the loved one have defeated the God of love together.
• DThe speaker believes love should be worshipped as a sacred deity.

• AThe loved one has won the battle of love and remains unharmed and free.
• BThe loved one has been defeated and is suffering greatly.
• CThe loved one is a prisoner of love and cannot escape.
• DThe loved one is indifferent to the speaker's suffering.

• AEmotive language like 'fresh pains', 'tears', and 'poor heart' describes how the speaker has been harmed.
• BThe speaker is presented as a victim of unrequited love through personal, intimate expression of physical and emotional pain.
• CThe imagery of injury suggests that love is a gentle and healing force.
• DThe poem uses military language such as 'armed' and 'victor' to reinforce the idea of love as a battle.
• EThe imagery of injury is used only to describe the loved one's suffering.

• AIt alludes to Cupid, the Roman god of love, but presents him as a warrior rather than a child.
• BIt uses military language such as 'armed' and 'victor' alongside capitalised abstract nouns.
• CIt suggests that love controls humans as if in a game ('sport').
• DIt alludes to the Christian God as the true source of love.
• EIt presents love as a gentle and playful child who brings only joy.

The poem has two stanzas of ____ lines each, written in iambic ____.

From me he took his sighs and ____, and from thee his pride and ____.

The poem is written as a ____, so it has two regular stanzas, each of eight lines, and follows a disciplined rhythm of alternating rhyming lines.

From me he took his sighs and ____, / From thee his pride and ____;

The poem is written as a ____, so it has two regular stanzas, each of ____ lines, and follows a disciplined rhythm of alternating rhyming lines.

In the first stanza the poem uses the rhyme scheme ____, and in the second stanza it changes to ____.

The stark contrast between those that love and those that are loved continues in anaphora alternating between 'From ____' and 'From ____'.

The poem subverts a typical allusion of the Roman figure of love ____, the son of Venus and Mars, who appears here not as a child but as a ____.

Behn's extended metaphor makes use of a classical allusion to present the idea of love as a powerful and ____ warrior who takes pleasure in causing ____.

The poem employs imagery related to injury: emotive language like 'fresh pains', 'tears', and 'poor ____' describes how the speaker has been ____.