Poetry Qoutes Cluster 1 Flashcards
First two stanzas of the poem are about marriage background
What’s Christmas time without other people in the house than we FB
This shows me he is annoyed there no children in the house and she is fertile
Context
Charlotte new grew up in an old society she also received unrequited love
Neutral tones
Bland mood, dead relationship, neutral suggest they don’t love each other but don’t hate each other
Tedious riddles of years ago NT
Boring arguments, tedious suggests they can even be bothered to argue they hate each other that much
Wrings with wrong
Suggests they should never have been married
Few leaves lay on the starving sod NT
There is no love anymore, realationship is slow and painful like being starved
Structure of neutral tones
Layed out in 4 paragraphs with four lines
What are the similarities between neutral tones and farmers bride
Both about failed relationships
Both in 1st person
Both use natural imagery
What type of monologue is prophyrias lover
A dramatic monologue
What type of love is prophyrias lover
Destructing love
Prophyrias lover
It’s her love which is odd as women then did not own things
What is there in line 17- 20 of porphyria’s lover
Amphora which shoes he is obsessed
In one long yellow string I wound three times found her little throat around and strangled her
.Volta ( turning point )
.This can foreshadow her being hung
And yet god has not said a word
He feels powerful and feels like god
Stopping made my cheek lie they
She was in control ( prior to volta)
When we two parted
.Parted ( past tense) sets up the idea of division
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The reposition in lines 5-6 show what
They show her emotional coldness via the religion of cold with colder