PERCY SHELLEY: The Question Flashcards
1
Q
‘dreamed’
A
often associated with repressed desires
- establishes mood of whole poem = otherworldly, unnatural
2
Q
‘wandered by the way’
A
alliteration = aimless
3
Q
‘Bare Winter…Spring
A
sudden change in seasons hints supernatural dream like quality
4
Q
‘mightest’
A
archaic form of the conditional ‘might’
- reinforces dream
5
Q
‘Arcturi”
A
brightest star in the Northern hemisphere, dream and fate
6
Q
‘constellated flower’
A
pantheistic heavenly images brought to earth
7
Q
‘faint oxlips tender bluebells;
A
delicate intimate adjectives
8
Q
‘cherry’ ‘white’‘brihgt;
A
lexical field of colour real life can never match up to beauties of his dream
9
Q
-Oh to whom
A
littered w caesuras no longer indulges in excessive descriptions of dreams but rather realise has no place in imaginary world
