How would you interpret the poem? The wild rose-briar represents the beauty and excitement of romantic love. A rose is traditionally used as a symbol of love, and the poet adds ‘wild’ to ...

The award-winning film about a Glasgow single mum who fronts a country band by night is adapted for the theatre.

Love: Brontë refers to romantic love in this poem and warns the reader that, though lovely, it is transient and will not last. ‘Yet wait till winter comes again/ And who will call the wild ...