Lines On A Young Ladys Photograph Album Flashcards
You yielded the album
The military esque verb showcases the speaker’s forcefullness in demanding to see the images of the womans past- she has reluctantly given in.
‘Glossy’ ‘think’ ‘rich’
The images present her past as dense with experience , it is lavered with detail and significance- perhaps why the speaker is so incredibly enticed by it
‘Confectionary/nutritous/hungers’
Semantic field of food connotes his deep pleasures and desires, presenting the woman as a mere object to be consumed and exploited by the demanding speaker.
Stretch- him ‘choking’ on the nutritous image hints at his base desires inflicting damage , though he still pursues then
Swivel eye (pair with pigtails and sweet girl graduate)
Speaker is so deeply drawn to the womans youth he is unable to keep self control of his physical body
Not quite your class, I’d say dear, on the whole
Speaker employs hedging language, highlighting his rehearsed politeness that lacks sincerity or anything genuine.
The use of caesure is emphatic of his condesending tone
Faithful and dissapointing
Antithesis capturing his honest hope for the representation of self in photography , yet is disheartned due to being confronted with imperfections and insecurities
Contract my heart by looking out of date
Incoperation of polysemic meaning suggestive of how not only does speaker feel a sense of grief that he is unable to be apart of womans past- ultimately creating a sense of melanchony that her youth has irreversiabley dissapeared. But also conottoes how speaker is faced with the missed opportunitiy of marrying her, a legally binding contract.
“Cry/mourn/grief”
SF of almost nostalgic regret for missed opportunities as speaker lacks being involved within womans past- almost a sense of sorrow because he can’t re capture her youth and innocence.
(The fat enjabmebt in the third to last stanza xxx)
Enjabment mirroring the space between speaker and the photography- relfective of the distance between larkin and womans past
It holds you like a heaven
Similie suggests the photographs perserves the womans past forever in a state of almost holy purity and innocence
Regular rhyme scheme
Time as irreversible and uncontrolable-eternal
Context xoxoxoxoxoxo
-interest in photography
-sad eyed realism
- movement writer , honesty
- heaven? Agnostic I guess?
