Anne Hathaway 2nd Half Revision

Question 1

“I dreamed he’d written me” “the bed”

Answer 1

•Shakespeare created her like one of his characters, his love brought her alive.

Question 2

“page beneath the writers hands”

Answer 2

• metaphor comparing the bed to the writers page. where creativity is actualised snd brought to existence

Question 3

“Romance”

Answer 3

•enjambment and word choice:romance is what she associates more with their relationship. Deliberately placed at the end of the end of line 9 to emphasis this that this what she most associated with their relationship

Question 4

“and drama played with”

Answer 4

•the genres that Shakespeare is famous for, suggests that his work mirrored their life

Question 5

“touch, by scent, by taste”

Answer 5

•list of senses, she can vividly recall their love and passion

Question 6

“In the other bed, the best”

Answer 6

•poetry symbolises the most skilful and creative use of language while prose by comparision is unexceptional, the intimacy is magical compared to others

Question 7

“dozed on” “dribbling their prose”

Answer 7

•word choice and aliteration, boring, not exciting or seductive

Question 8

“living laughing love”

Answer 8

•alliteration- l is seductive and soft, she recalls vividly their passion and love, dash represents her own private reflection

Question 9

“casket of my widows head” “as he held me upon that next best bedL”

Answer 9

•final rhyme is plosive and harsh and definite just like the end of their marriage, through his death and now to the end of the poem. The final couplet also ends with the masculine full rhyme to provide a defined conclusion