Echo

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

Reference to Greek myth - echo the nymph - reduced to an inability to speak = voiceless female
- mimicry, unorigina, fading

Question 2

Stanza 1

Answer 2

‘come’ - anaphoric, imperative repeated = urgent & lonely tone is established, frustrated by the absence of someone or something.
Presents the persona as unfulfilled - sexually or spiritually?

Question 3

stanza 2

Answer 3

‘oh dream how sweet, too sweet…too bitter sweet’ = triadic devolution of the dream.

‘slow door’ - metaphor for the gates of heaven = more rewarding love, threshold imagery = new opportunity, slow however = protracted process

Question 4

stanza 3