Have you Forgotten? Flashcards
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Sonnet.
Female persona.
Title- Direct address which subverts normative femininity.
‘summer night’ and ‘moon’
Night is the peak of relationship but has a subtle potential for downfall.
Symbol- divine?Purity, innocence or lunacy, hysteria but is the idea scenery for lovers.
‘While warm winds hummed’
Personification and alliteration, connotations of romance.
‘you praised both light and darkness; not embarrassed yet not quite at ease?”
Rossetti was engaged.
Light vs dark carries an artistic motif.
‘embarrassed’- doubtful, bashful.
She judges him.
‘Till on the air there came the distant call of Church bells: We turned hastily’
Religious switched marked through the caesura.
Symbolises the expectation of marriage.
‘a second chime’
A second marriage?
‘have you indeed forgotten all? Ah how then is it I cannot forget?’
He is able to withdraw from marriage and it will not tarnish his reputation.
Takes on the superior role, reveals true emotions.
Lapsarian culture.
