maude claire Flashcards

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written?

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1857

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link to highgate penitentary

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criticises the fallen women and those who induldge in immoral things

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structure

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12 quatrains

narrative form

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4
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metre

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roughly equal metre

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5
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monosyllabic word choice effect

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angel in the house significance

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coventry patmore 1854 (close to time period) draws on ideal qualitiues of a women and desirability

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‘with a loft step and mein’

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lofty alludes to maudes power and dominance, challenges the notion of women as passive and weak

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his bride was like a village maid

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-queen suggests that she is less desirable

-a maid connotes purity suggestively increasing desirability

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significance of maid reference

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maude claire less desireable as a bride, not a maid but a queen.

a maid connotes purity suggestively increasing desirability

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‘with smiles, almost tears’

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tears show ucertainty of emotion, could allude to generational trauma of women being possessed through marriage

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‘may nell and you but live as true as we have done for years’

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-shows traditional value of marrriage being continued

-the inconsistent rhyme could be an underlying message from the mother, symbolic of not wanting to conform to societies expectations, suggests there isnt happiness in marriage and its just a traditional expectation

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‘your father thirty years ago had just your tale to tell; but he was not so pale as you’

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-link to generational trauma and cyclical process of being confined in marriage

-shows expectation of men in society

-pale, ambiguous, could suggest nervoussness

-fact both nell and him are pale shows they both don’t want to conform to the tradition of marriage but it is thrust upon them

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significance of inconsistent rhyme second stanza

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not wanting to conform to tradition of marriage

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pale implication

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unsure about emotions, nervous?

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15
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‘my lord was pale with inward strife
And nell was pale with pride’

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MY LORD- -conforms to hierarchy og gender
posessive pronoun suggests maude Claire lasting impact on him despite constrainsts of marriage

nell pale in different way shows disparity in emotion

narrator is ambiguous

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’ My lord gazed long on pale maude Clare
Or ever he kissed the bride’

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-suggests temptation, the lord doesnt wish to be with nell but maude claret

-shows long lasting effect maude clare had on him

-long emphasises intensity of the gaze

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‘Lo, I have brought my gift my lord’

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-declaration of maude clare’s presence -possesiveness of my lord
-was rare for a femae voice to declare

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‘to bless the hearth, to bless the board, to bless the marriage bed’

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-the repeated blessings are insincere

-sexual connotations of bed allude to their sexual past

-marriage bed on an isolated line (scathing)

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significance of ‘my lord’

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-conforms to hierarchy og gender

-posessive pronoun suggests maude Claire lasting impact on him despite constrainsts of marriage

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pastoral imagery

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purity of their relationship before it went downhill- signifies ‘plucking’ of innocence

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feminist perspective

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subverts expectations of women at the time

suggestive of rossettis conflicting views on women

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summary

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Narrative poem which pits two women against each other. Maude Clare is attractive, but fallen, whereas Nell is plain but virtuous.

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what does the ‘gold chain’ symbolise

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demonstrates the end of the unity they once had

the fact is was worn around his neck suggests social heirarchy of gender and symbolic of control/possession

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the fact he wore the chain around his neck

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symbolic of control and possession- ownership

-he wore her innocence round her neck

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significajce of Maude claires speech

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declaration of her presence, rare for female to assert herself

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significance of ‘we waded ankle deep for lilies ‘

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waded ankle deep- shows insincerity and lack of intention of commitment

lilies- signifies death (death of unity) or innocence (took innocence)

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the lilies are budding now

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alludes to pregnancy

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‘budding bough’ significance

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premature nature of sexual relathionship (alliteration draws attention to it)

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‘faded leaves’

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pastoral imagrey implies purity of the foundation of their relationship

emphasises decayed and faded nature of their relationship

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‘he strove to match her scorn with scorn
He faltered in his place’

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-hes inferior and immasculated by her dominating and confrontational presence

-shame, impliues deeper mesning to relationship

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“My lady Nell
I have a gift for you
Though, were it fruit the blooms were gone,
Or were it flowers the dew

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-adresses nell in a respectful but pitying tone

-blooms gone from fruit suggest he stripped her of her innocence

-incmompleteness of this ‘gift’ indicates the incompleteness of this marriage

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‘take my share of a fickle heart
Mine of a paltry love:
Take it or leave it as you will,
I wash my hands thereof’

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-fickle heart is a reference to disloyalty

-Mine of a paltry love shows inadequate nature of thomas’s affections

-take it or leave it as u will- feminist perspective insinuating women shpuld of had more choice / freedom in marital relations, criticism of society

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significance of marriage vows

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suggests nell is trapped in this cycle of husband wife hierarchy cultivated by society

eiher emphaisies stoicism or naivity in nell

34
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‘for hes my lord’

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reinforces possesion of husband over wife

35
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‘Yea though you’re taller by the head, more wise and much more fair:
I’ll love him until he loves me best,
Me best of all Maude Clare.

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-comment on societal expectations on the type of woman you would marry over tempting features of idealised beauty

-commitment, shows how women couldnt break the cycle and had to engage in traditional marriage values