Browning- The Laboratory Flashcards
What is the structure and form of the poem?
Dramatic monlogue allows insight into psychology of speaker
Ballad form with quatrains and rhyming couplets creating ironically uplifiting tone
Which is the poison to poison her, prithee?
Plosives creates harsh, bitter tone
Anaphors of denominal verb evokes eagerness and excitement
Adding to semantic field of evil and sin
He is with her, and they know that I know
Perosn deixid places intense focus on her victims, highlighting hyperfixation on them
Idea of knowledge and power
Grind away, moisten and mash up thy paste
Pound at thy powder
Grahpic imperatives creates euphemism
Sounds onomatopoeaic
Plosive alliterative phrase adds to intensity
The delicate droplet, my whole fortune’s fee!
Plosives combined with fricatives highlight intense joy
Juxtaposition od big and small
Gorge gold
Elongated vowels and plosive allietration highlight greed and highlight joy
