From The Antique Flashcards
Which line in from the antique encapsulates the speakers desire
“I wish and I wish I were a man”
- syndetic listing> childlike yearning and longing for more (power, autonomy, agency)
How is transformation of nature used in the poem ‘from the antique’
As an allergy for life
How does the speaker feel in relation to transformation in the poem ‘antique’
Frustrated with her lack of progress
From the antique:
“Still the world would …
Wag on”
- alliteration sense of exhaustion and monotony
What is the first line of the poem ‘from the antique’
“It’s a weary life, it is, she said -“
From the antique:
“Still the seasons go and come:…
Blossoms bloom …
Cherries ripen and wild bees hum”
- positive pastoral imagery (reminiscent of romanticism + Jew like nature of PRB art) has no power to console her
From the antique:
“Not so much as a grain of dust / Or a drop of water from pole to pole.”
- imagery of insignificance
- enjambment + alliteration > slow flow of dusts reflect the painful monotony of her existence
From the antique:
“None would miss…
Me in the world”
From the antique:
“Not a body and not a soul:
Not so much a grain of dust
Or a drop of water from pole to pole”
- imagery of insignificance
- enjambment reflects speaker’s hopelessness
- “dust” reflects her slow painful existence
How does the rhythm / rhyme scheme reflect the message of the poem from the antique
Regular ABCB rhyme scheme + quatrains reflects the monotony and entrapment of existence
