Havisham - Quotations Flashcards
1
Q
“Beloved sweetheart bastard”
“Prayed for it”
“dark green pebbles for eyes”
A
- Oxymoron to start the poem
- Reveals contradictory feelings; love and hate
- Ironic - usually we pray for the good reasons
- cold, hard, unforgiving (pebbles)
- jealousy, envy, poison, bitter (green)
- metaphor - suggests she is bitter/ twisted by the experience
2
Q
“ropes on the back of my hands”
“Spinster”
“Nooooo”
A
- metaphor: indicates her murderous rage; accentuated veins shows she’s aged; length of time felt this way
- single word sentence, bitter tone
- repetition of o, elongates word, sound being made, upset then or now
3
Q
“Trembling”
“Slewed”
A
- ambiguous - is it the dress or her trembling? Indicates her broken mind. Scared of what she will see
- turned or warped
4
Q
“who did this”
“to me?”
“Puce”
A
- looking to blame someone, line breaks leaves this as a statement that this could be her fault
- enjambment - not taking responsibility
- blood, anger, danger
5
Q
“sounds not words”
“the lost body” “its” “its”
“bite awake”
A
- cannot articulate her anger, just noise, links back to earlier
- depersonalising language, fantasises about sex with ex lover
- hatred and anger return
6
Q
“Love’s hate”
“red balloon bursting
“Bang”
A
- oxymoron linked together suggests intensity
- symbolises heart breaking, more violent, irreversible,
- alliteration; plosive ‘b’ sound - suggests sudden and shocking
- violet sound, moving her from past to present
7
Q
“wedding cake” “honeymoon”
“Give me a male corpse”
” long slow honeymoon”
A
- connotations of innocence, purity, wedding twisted here
- happy associations, subverted
- sinister tone
- kind vowel sounds
- emphasises the time of it being “long” and “slow”
8
Q
“Don’t think it’s only the heart that b-b-b-breaks”
A
- more poignant, sad
- hatred, anger and hurt have consumed her, destroyed the person she was/ could have become
- “b-b-b-breaks” - elongates the word; mimics her emotional and mental breakdown
