Quote bank 2 Flashcards
neutral tones: ‘Smile on your mouth was the deadest thing’
3 points
1-oxymoron lack of genuine feeling
2-paradox juxtaposing smile’s represent death rather than life
3-stuck between life death, concealment of feeling
neutral tones: ‘Sun was white as though chidden of God’ ‘god curst’
3 points
1-scolded by God, implying sun committed wrong God’s anger= religious imagery
2-simile celestial imagery distinct lack of color.=life drained
3-sun symbol of life, warmth, moralness, world cannot sustain it
winter swans: ‘‘Waterlogged earth gulping for breath’ 3 points
1-struggling to survive metaphorically relationship
2-personification, stresses= thick, mud, steps difficult
Juxtaposing other times the stresses can flow gracefully=swans
3-pathetic fallacy= eventually come back together after rain= link environment
winter swans: ‘‘icebergs of white feather’
3 points
1-majestic movements swans lake.
2-icebergs couple’s mood= coldness, feather=soft juxtapose= relationship strong foundation more as it seems below water
4-Icebergs=threat destruction—Titanic!— brink of ending. (Metaphor) choice staying together, splitting
farmer bride: ‘Like a frightened fay’
3 points
1-frightened= abstract noun=fricative= violent (sexual frustration)
2-‘Fay’=mystical creature (actions abnormal)= small insignificant= wants to Manipulate
3-prey animal he is predator powerless = anthropomorphic
farmer bride: ‘Berries redden up’
3 points
-hollyberries
1-holly berries metaphor= reproduction, loss virginity , ironically=childless marriage
2-winter symbolize F sexuality frustrated desire plumper like pregnant belly.
3-images imply, naturally meant sex and babies
farmer bride: ‘Straight and slight as a young larch tree,’
5 points
-meter and motifs
1-similes=motif wife who is at one with natural world
2-sibilance= wife’s youth = building sexual frustration
3-young= “straight,” “slight” barely pubescent: no adult curves.
4- Iambic tetrameter= urgent and energetic: insistent
5-“wide brown stare” suggests huge, childlike eyes.
Loves philosophy: ‘Sunlight clasps the earth’
4 points
-sibilance
1-natures four elements paired imagerye world divine law seduce opposites attract.
2-sibilant soft sound love or sound of a kiss
3-metapahorically he earth, she sun wants Her attention constantly
4-Sun= a natural force sustains essential ecosystems= she is not with him destroys everything = misogyny
Loves philosophy: ‘Mountains kiss high heaven’
4 points
-’kiss’ ‘clasp’- lexical field of physical language.
-alliation
1-’mountains’ phalic, ‘high heaven’ yonic imagery nature imagery= nature, must be together.
2-heaven (she)=welcoming good souls his right to be with her. metaphor for sex.
3-peak spiritually signifies state of consciousness. believes he is right
4-aliiteration creating breathlessness, fits perfectly line’s reference to sexual passion. gods
sonnet 29: ‘Wild vines, about a tree’
3 points
1-sexual intercourse, vines yonic, tree phalic
2-nature imagery=thoughts lover cling and increases.
abundantly,= engulf tree= extended metaphor
3-simile restrictiveness, foreshadowing vines thought
strangling tree attempts grow ‘wild vines’. untamed and obsessed
sonnet 29: ‘palm-tree […] dearer, better!’
3 points
1-erection phalic
2-volta,= exclaims her lover is “dearer” her own thoughts.
3- metaphor/symbol: palm-tree, religious devotion Christian symbol triumph spirit over the desires of the flesh.
Singh song: ‘Like vee rowing through putney’
3 points
1-simile sex adds humour double meaning word
Allusion Boat Race, starts in Putney. ’putney’ Punjabi word=wife.
2-simile compares love-making physical activity rowing a boat. repetitive motion, brag,
3-repetition of ‘vee’ emphasises musical quality speakers voice
Singh song: ‘tiny eyes ov a gun…tummy ov a teddy’
6 points
1-metaphors wife feisty, sweet.
2-smallness eyes beady black hole end a gun, = violence danger aims gets it.
3-.previous stanza’s toying with men online, pretty sharp crafty= or Sikh lover site puts people together
4-Emphasising his affection “tummy” teddy bear childlike nature
5-Teddy bears= made to be held. comically childish vocabulary
6-juxtaposing nature both hard (gun) and soft (teddy)= volatile relationship
porphyria’s lover : ‘Vex the lake’
8 points
1-’Vex’ noun pathetic fallacy foreshadows sets tone mood rest his murder. Connotations evil, supernatural. Mimics him construct
2-disease porphyria hexed him controlling loss of sanity
3-weather outside juxtaposes inside= internal battle of the diseases
4-monosyllabic= simple state of mind= lost the cognitive ability foreshadow nature at odds with itself uneasy feeling
5-’Lake’- noun biblical imagery symbolises represent transition of life, death foreshadow.
6-Combine lake and vex - religious sinful imagery illusions lake of fire=place of after death punishment
7-lake is expansive represent his isolation due to disease.
porphyria’s lover: ‘Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss’
3 points
1-Plosives, alliteration. Connotations hell fire devil= imagery drawn corpse reminiscent gothic horror
2-stressed=force sexual desire, overpowers meter. metrical variations moments passion overwhelm.
3-kiss full desire preserves Porphyria’s sexual purity.
phenomenon strangulation
