Havisham 2nd Half Revision Flashcards
“to me?”
•enjambment, lines run over which emphasises the rhetorical question
“Puce”
•colour of red, brown and purple, suggests old blood which suggests old wounds
“are sounds not words”
•she cant express her anger and bitterness in proper words, no language can fully describe her pain
“Some nights better”
•controversial tone
“lost body over me”
•sexual imagery, sexual reference to their relationship:madness
“my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear”
•the dream continues and the love making is easy snd poetic-she sees him in her sleep
“suddenly bite awake.”
•violence, the act is sudden to him in the dream and the suddenness awakes her and us as the reader to the viciousness of the attack, could also imply emasculation, she wants to be in control
“Loves
hate”
•enjambment- loves hate- oxymoron highlighing that she loves/hates him, conflicting emotions
“white veil”
•triple meaning, “white” suggests innocence, “white veil” suggests the wedding and “veil” represents feminist term that she is concealing something
“a red balloon bursting”
- alliteration of “b” and “d” sound shows anger
* violence-suggests anger “red”, red balloon bursting is a metaphor used to express her embarassment
“Bang”
- onomatoepia
* short sentence for effect- represents the shock experienced
“stabbed”
•creates violent imagery, shows literal anger and shows her opinion on marriage.
“Give me”
•use of imperative verb, shows she is demanding
“male corpse for a long slow honeymoon”
•use of dark imagery, reference to death links to idea that the “honeymoon” would provide the long painful death she wants, she would rather have him dead than face rejection again, shoes bitterness
“Dont think its only the heart that b-b-b-breaks”
•sobbing suggests violence-a veiled threat use of plosive “b” in a stuttering style, suggests she is breaking down again/she suggests that her life has broken as a result, not just her heart
