Browning- Cristina Flashcards
She should never have looked at me
Anaphoric use of pronoun, never referred to by name which is dehumanising
Strong epistemic modality places blame off of speaker
Syntactical structure indicates she has control, victimises speaker
What? To fix me thus meant nothing!
Interrogative pronoun is rhetorical
Combined with exclamatory highlights outrage
Of some lone shore with its pearl seed
Assonance and sibilance created an elongated sound
Longing and melancholic tone
Feminine rhyme: yearning and returning
Stressed syllable followed by unstressed
Highlights vulnerability
Oh, we’re sunk enough here, God knows!
Boulomaic modality expresses desire
Dynamic verb ‘sunk’ highlights power imbalance, anaphoric implying doom
Temporal and spatial deixis indicating closeness
Collective pronoun highlighting unity
Exclamatory hightlights hopelessness
There are flashes struck from midnights / There are fire-flames noondays kindle,!
Lexis of fire connotes love and passion, or alternatively anger at lost love
Dynamic verbs ‘struck’ and ‘kindle’ create juxtaposing images of fire highlinghting opposing feelings
Fricatives are harsh and sharp
Deeper blisses (if you choose it)
Euphonious sound via sibilance and assonance creating vowel extension, what they could have had
Parenthesis highlights element of choice
Mine and her souls rushed together?
Syntactical structure suggests role reversal of power, he is now in control
Interrogative connotes element of doubt
Religious undertones overpowers any doubt that they will be together in next world
She has lost me, I have gained her
Excalamtive implies gloating and excitement
Posessive pronoun creates villainous tone
Caesura highlights success
Reverse of syntax, he is now in control
Antithetical doubling (mirroring of verbs)
