Destructive/painful love Flashcards
P1: Gatsby realises near his death that his love for Daisy is no longer as pure as he imagined and was in the past and he dies not hearing from her for the last time
C6: ‘I feel far away from her’
C8: ‘He was clutching at some last hope and I couldn’t bear to shake him free’
C8: ‘He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her’
P2: Myrtle’s affair with Tom ultimately ends in destruction of her life - even during their affair their heated altercations cause Myrtle physical pain
C7: ‘Her eyes wide with jealous terror’
C7: ‘Her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust’
C7: ‘She had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long’
P3: Wilson’s circumstances in the Valley of Ashes leads him to become sick and also his love for Myrtle is seemingly the most pure in the novel however she does not fully love him back and he cannot give himself to her fully
C7: ‘Really sick, pale as his own pale hair and shaking all over’
C8: ‘He was his wife’s man and not his own’
C7: ‘A hollow wailing sound’
C8: ‘There was not enough of him for his wife’
Remember - The speaker understands the pain their lover will feel when they are gone as they are in pain at that time
‘A vestige of the thoughts that I once had’
‘Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad’
Ae fond kiss - The speaker and his lovers separation is painful for him as his light has gone
‘We had ne’er been broken hearted’
‘Deep in heart wrung tears I’ll pledge thee warring sighs and groans I’’l wage thee’
La Belle Dame - After meeting the woman in the poem, the knight is manipulated and left for dead
‘She lulled me asleep’
‘On the cold hills side’
‘Alone and palely loitering…no birds sing’
