Echo

Question 1

“Come to me..
Come in…
Come with…”

Answer 1

• anaphoric repetition > unrequited yearning and desperation

Question 2

“Watch the slow door / That opening, letting in, lets out no more.”

Answer 2

• liminal imagery, door motif > symbolic of rejection

Question 3

“Soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright / as sunlight on a stream”

Answer 3

• classical cherubic imagery

Question 4

“Thirsting …

Answer 4

Longing eyes”

Question 5

“O dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter - sweet”

Answer 5

• increasing reception > characteristic of Victorian poetry
• overindulgence to fault, too good to be true
• sibilance > dreamy indulgence

Question 6

“Pulse for pulse,breath for breath: / Speak low, lean low,”

Answer 6

• plosive, trochaic trimeter > puts emphasis on sensual words
• alliteration > liquid sound emphasise explicitly sensual language, lyrical quality of her words evokes sympathy
• speak low lean low > spondaic

Question 7

“My very life again though cold in death:”

Answer 7

• liminality
• existing in a living death