Constancy To An Ideal Object Flashcards
What is ironic about the vision the woodman sees
The shadow is him
‘Not know he makes the shadow he pursues’ - last like
The phenomenon referred to in the poems last lines is now called the ‘Brocken Spectre’
Wikipedia defines it as ‘the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cost upon the upper surfaces of clouds opp the sun
The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud, bank, even when seen from an aeroplane, but the frequent jogs and low altitude accessibility of the Brochen, a peak in the Harz mountains in Germany have created a local legend from which the phenomenon draws its name
Self perspective - thinks anger but shadow
Related to title
What we want not what we have .
A03 context
Published 1822 ish
Thought - written earlier as it’s about Coleridge coming to terms with the impossibility of his love for Sara Hutchinson
He idealised her as his muse, renaming her Asra and hoped to achieve the perfect spiritual and physical Union w her
However he now realises Sara will never reaprocate his love and his feelings are actually based on an imaginary version of her
How are antonyms ‘constant’ and ‘change’ used
‘Why should’st thou remain/ The only constant in a world of change
Who might the ‘faery’ people of the future day metaphorically be
Scientists
Psychologists
How is the simile of their relationship being both ‘hope and dispair (antonyms - paradox of relationships) used
Despair of human nature
How does the rhyme scheme of the poem change line 13 onwards
Alternate rhymes to rhyming couplets
Is it possible to love someone without idealising them
No
Theme
Love
‘I mourn’
Context about Sara Hutchinson
Can’t have
