cozy apologia Flashcards
anything
I could pick anything and think of YOU
- pronouns make it intimate and the poem more personal
- also shows how they are a universal couple and are satisfied with “anything”
- conversational tone simplicity and more personal
4 word
lamp,wind,pen,page
the use of the listing of ordinary objects shows that freed and doves’ relationship is normal and simple it also shows that fed is more important than writing which is ironic as they are both writers
glinting
chain mail glinting to set me free
- traditional stories as she compares him to knight, shows their love is traditional and could even add a humorous touch
- she was lost until she found fred
eye
one eye smiling and the other firm on the enemy
- he has a soft spot for her
liquorice
thin as liquorice and as chewy and dark and hollow centre
- metaphor dismissive of the old rushes and sows the old crushes were transparent and predictable however fred is deep and different
- fred is superior
- bad intensions and emotionless
male
oddly male: big bad floyd
- mocking and downgrading the seriousness of the storm
- personifing the storm with rude bully cocnotations to show that
divine
were content but fall short of the devine
- traditional and inseparable
- the contrast to the rest of the simlpe peom shoes her view on the relationship that fred stands out
- oxymoron
stolen
i fill this stolen time with you
- completeness and the pronouns repeated
- cherished and made use of this time = priceless
structure
- listing emphasises overwhenling love and admiration
- rhyming couplets = simplicity and romance –> regular rhyme at the end to show dove was impacted by floyd but maybe in a good way and that floyd has died down
- s2 enjambment and ceasura disrupt thyme = chaos and distress of the storm
who
rita dove to fred
when
1999
what
during hurricane Floyd with ideas of celebration and mockery
