Anne Hathaway 1st Half Revision Flashcards
“loved”
•past tense-reminiscing after his death. Love=passion and affection in their relationship
“spinning world”
•metaphor, their love was consuming and dizzying, it threw her off balance and made her view the world differently
“forests, castles, torchlight, cliff-tops, seas”
•list: alludes to some of her husband famous/majestic settings, connotations of romance and love
“dive for pearls”
•pearls are precious and valuable, so to was their marriage
“My lover’s words”
•assonance, shakesperes words seduced her
“fell to earth”
•his work, creativity and language were all gifts from god, which impassioned her
“kisses”
•sibilant, the ‘s’ sound is soft and seductive just like Shakespeare and his writing. Could also represent fireworks to suggest their passion in their marriage
“softer ryhme”
•metaphor, suggests that she is feminine while Shakespeare was masculine, she was powerless to his touch
“to his”
- again reiterates that he is in control
* enjambment, she finds his touch exciting and erotic, his touch-moving, exciting and unpredictable
“His touch”
•she finds his touch exciting and erotic “dancing”=his touch- moving, exciting and unpredictable
“a verb dancing in the centre of a noun”
•imagery-the erotic touch of his hand on her body is described as “a verb dancing in the centre of a noun” the deliberate comparison elevates their love making to something poetic
“noun”
•the reference again to the bed at the end of the line created a link to the opening line of the poem and reinforces the symbolic significance of the bed as a representation of their love
