Love and isolation

Question 1

P1: Gatsby and Daisy have an emotional distance after their reunion as they have lived in two different worlds

Answer 1

‘West Egg’/’East Egg’
‘She was appalled by West Egg…she saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand’
‘I feel far away from her’
‘With every word she was drawing further and further into herself’
(While Daisy and Tom are inside) ‘I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing’

Question 2

Nom Sum - The speaker feels lost and alone in the memories of a passionate love he once had

Answer 2

‘I was desolate and sick for an old passion
‘But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, then falls they shadow Cynara’

Question 3

Nom Sum - All the affairs the speaker references having seem empty compared to the fullness of his love for Cynara

Answer 3

‘The kisses of her bought red mouth’
‘I cried for madder music and stronger wine’

Question 4

Whoso Lists to Hount - The speakers pursuit for his love leaves him alone in a long tiring quest to achieve her

Answer 4

‘The vayne travail hath weird me so sore’
‘I ame of them that farthest cometh behind’

Question 5

Absent from thee - The images of light which represents the lover and darkness which represents their separation shows how the speaker is left alone as they say goodbye

Answer 5

‘While the star of hope she leaves him’
‘Dark despair around benights me’
‘Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee