ECHO Flashcards
what is the significance of this poem?
The garden of the poem is domestic- link to eden
original sin, dust and loss of faith
Could be related to women and their role in society?
This is about how the world is different to the divine
Key quotes and ideas
There is the sexual connotation of the garden “my garden, mine”
There is the lexical field of natural imagery “flower to flower the moths and bees”
There is the allegory of the fall of man “shadowless man”
Unhappiness and wants them to cheer her up “let me have some buds to cheer my outcast”- request one
request two- “small twig from shrub or tree”. The focus is on the flower, Garden of eden vs Darwin- garden may represent a metaphor for life
The speaker is shut out from the fallen world around her, “blinded with tears”- the true home is God. How might a christian deal with the home in exile/heaven
The envelope structure was used by Tennyson- readers would have been expected to know this.
what is a key theme within this poem?
Loss and grief- the speaker mourns the loss of paradise, though they were soon locked by a “spirit”
The grief of what the speaker has lost is evident
