Meeting at Night Flashcards
1
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Who
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First person narrative narrative journey characterisation has disappeared no sense of identity or voice no public audience offered series of images/details
2
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What
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Themes: love, secrecy, movement of life dichotomy between stasis of art and action of life
Plot: Speaker at sea at night going to meet lover
Structure: 2 stanzas, stages of journey, stops abruptly- achieved love?, fast paced, like a soliloquy/internal monologue
3
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Where
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At sea on a boat, describes the landscape- picturesque time and space are endless/boundless spatial setting: nature spacially public temporal setting: limitless, private
4
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When
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present tense - movement
anticipation of meeting
temporal: at night , secrecy, romantic
5
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Why
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Brownings message: choose life over art, goal is movement/energy over static contemplation
6
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How
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Meter/sound denote a sense of pressing intent iambic tetrameter - fast paced Imagery- picturesque/ pastoral abstract nouns cyclical structure colour connotation semantic field of nature sound of heart beating - phonetics
7
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Patterns
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Repeated colour connotations
nature description throughout
