M1 (The sun shines) Flashcards
Matins
Morning prayer for spiritual cleansing in preparation for the day ahead.
“The sun shines”
Beam of light
Gateway to heaven
Calm, soothing, serene, lightness
“mailbox”
Deliverance
Man-made object
Synthetic
“pleated like fins”
Simile
Nautical imagery
“dark”, and “wild”
Representative of her mind’s state
“Noah”
Either her son
OR
Biblical allusion to Noah’s arc
“Depressive hate the spring”
But she likes it
People cope with depression in many different ways.
There is no right answer
“spring”
Connotes rebirth, renewal
“I make another case”
It is a prayer, not a case
Juridical feeling
This is her way of self healing
“my body”
She is within herself
“attached to the living tree”
Tries to anchor herself with a living thing
Trying to find support
“curled in the split trunk” -> (curled)
Foetal position
Privacy
Weak
Fragile
“curled in the split trunk” -> (split trunk)
Protection
Fighting for ownership of her body
“almost”
Adverb
Epizeuxis
Tries to lift the weight of her depression
“Sap frothing and rising” -> (-ing)
Melodious gerund
“error of depressives, identifying / with a tree”
Finding solace in nature
Relies upon nature’s stability and predictable life cycle
“happy heart”
Voiceless glottal fricative “h”
Joy should be effortless
“Wanders”
Lack of direction
No control
Trust that you are going to end up where you have to
Faith
“Falling leaf”
Imagery
Slow process
Delicate
Freedom
Satisfaction
Wider messages
She likes being depressed. Allows her to feel closer to the ground. This is NOT a bad thing
Being a tree you are selfish. A leaf is enough.
It’s as if depressives tell themselves they can get better, however, Noah argues that she’s a leaf and should go be free
