passing and glassing

Question 1

Structure and form

Answer 1

-regular structure
-each stanza is a couplet (reflective tone

Question 2

meter

Answer 2

iambic tetrameter (steady rhythm0

Question 3

rhyme scheme

Answer 3

-regular rhyme scheme stanza 1 and 3

stanza 2- shift in thought shown by break in rhyme scheme

Question 4

floral imagery

Answer 4

flioriography: les langue des fleures 1812

Question 5

how is this influenced by pre raphaelites

Answer 5

female beauty

use of symbolism

Question 6

tiring glass significance

Answer 6

dressing mirror: emphasises vanity cultivated by society and womens efforts to be desireable for men

Question 7

roses symbolism

Answer 7

love/ passion

withered roses could be aging women

Question 8

lavender symbolism

Answer 8

maturity and grace (beauty and grace in age)

Question 9

violet symbolism

Answer 9

Virgin Mary- purity

dead violet- lack of percieved purity that comes with experience of age

Question 10

biblical reference ‘for there is nothing beneath the sun’

Answer 10

Ecclesiastes 1:9

acceptance of lifes cyclical nature

Question 11

published and significance of time

Answer 11

1881

had just been diagnosed with graves disease in 1972(aging at fast rate and losing percieved beauty quickly)

maria died 1876