Death and the Moon Flashcards

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What is it about?

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An elegy honouring a loved one who has died — Adrian Henri, with whom she had a ten year relationship, ending in 1982.

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‘The moon is nearer than where death took you’

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  • Distance to loved one after death - tries to connect
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‘Fistful of earth , hard rain, tough confetti, and tossed it down’

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  • violent/harsh imagery
  • distorted positivity of grief
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‘The black night is huge, mute, and you are further forever than that’

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-fricative alliteration
- acceptance stage of grief
- gloomy imagery

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’ like morse code on the wood over your eyes, your tongue, your soundless sleep. Then as I slept my living sleep the ground gulped you’

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  • Oxymoronic
  • Simile
  • These ways of communicating
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Links to Streetcar

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  • Blanche doesn’t accept life as it is and as a result, she is doomed to fail
  • Allan Grey – both experience the death of a loved one
  • Loss of Belle Reve – denial
  • Anger and frustration at Stella
  • Talks about the grim reaper and death
  • Irritable
  • Struggle to communicate
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Context

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Eulogy to her ex-husband’s partner comforting her in his death

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