A Wife In London Flashcards
1
Q
“tawny vapour”
A
Dark, pathetic fallacy, smog=end of Industrial Revolution, foreboding/foreshadowing
2
Q
“webby fold on fold”
A
Everything tangled together, spiders web=backstreets/rows of houses linked together –> poor
3
Q
“Street-lamp glimmers cold”
A
Contrasts, oxymoron, powered by candle, hint to death (husband)
4
Q
“cracks smartly”
A
Sting, interruption, onomatopoeia, links to war, message from war is going to sting
5
Q
“of meaning it dazes to understand”
A
She cant understand it, confusion, difficult sentence structure to represent her confusion
6
Q
“-has fallen-“
A
Speech/quote, euphemism for death
7
Q
“summer weather”
A
Out of London fog, images of love and joy
8
Q
Compare to?
A
The manhunt
