Rejection In Love Notes

Question 1

What are ‘Desinas’ and ‘Ducas’?

Answer 1

Commands in the subjunctive

Question 2

What does ‘ducas’ mean in line two and four?

Answer 2

Line two- consider

Line 4- lead

Question 3

What does ‘miser’ do at the beginning of the poem?

Answer 3

Means lovesick

Sets tone for the rest of the poem

Question 4

How does he think back o better times?

Answer 4

‘Bright’ Suns reflects his sunny mood at the time

Question 5

Give 2 examples of assonance. What is the effect?

Answer 5

Quondam Candidi
Quondam tibi
Reflects happiness of the time

Question 6

How does ‘Ventitabas’ suggest a repeated action?

Answer 6

Repeated in the imperfect tense to suggest regular action

Question 7

What does the idea of being ‘led’ show?

Answer 7

Follows her and Not in shame of being led

Happy she wants him too

Question 8

What effect does repeating ‘amo’ in different forms have?

Answer 8

Emphasises his love

Keeps looking forward and back

Question 9

Which sounds are repeated? What is the effect?

Answer 9

‘A’ at the end of words
Double ‘l’ sound including his name
In rough pairs gives extra rhythm

Question 10

What tense does ‘Ibi’ suggest?

Answer 10

Then
So back there
Past tense

Question 11

Which phrase references to sexual intimacy?

Answer 11

Illa multa iocosa

Those many pleasant things

Question 12

‘Nolo’ and ‘volo’ describes what? What is Catullus aware of?

Answer 12

Catullus’ and the girl’s attitudes

Catullus is aware of the relationship imbalance even when it was good

Question 13

How does line 8 show reminiscence?

Answer 13

Almost identical to line 3

Question 14

What does the repetition of ‘now’ throughout show? What else does this?

Answer 14

Reinforces timeframe from past to present

Verbs ‘Nolo’ and ‘volo’ different to ‘did not want’

Question 15

What do lines 5,7,9 end in? What is the effect?

Answer 15

Nulla
Nolebat
Noli
Tone of unhappiness

Question 16

What does the repetition of ‘nec’ suggest?

Answer 16

Anaphoric to show desperation and determination

Question 17

What changes in terms of hi following her?

Answer 17

Now something to be avoided

She ‘flees’ him

Question 18

What is asyndeton? What is the effect?

Answer 18

Two imperatives with no ‘and’ in between

Adds force and repeats idea of him having a firm mind, being firm and being firm (obdura) repeated in line 12

Question 19

How does his attitude change with ‘iam’

Answer 19

He was angry but now he is defiant

Question 20

How does he show he is becoming more confident?

Answer 20

Uses the future tense

Question 21

What is the difference in feelings between the two ‘at tu’

Answer 21

Confident girl will be sad without him

Directed at him in the end so shows weakness

Question 22

What could be the change in translation of ‘scelesta’

Answer 22

From wicked to poor fool

Question 23

How many rhetorical questions are at the end?

Answer 23

Seven

Question 24

How is symmetry created in the rhetorical questions?

Answer 24

Begin with ‘q’ words and end in ‘c’ words

Question 25

What does the kissing and biting lips suggest?

Answer 25

Own ended relationship

Intimate memories that weaken to resolve

Question 26

How is this poem framed?

Answer 26

Returns to present tense at end
Starts and ends with instructions to ‘catulle’
Forced to repeat earlier instructions

Question 27

What is the context of this poem?

Answer 27

He struggles with his own mind with the idea that his affair with lesbia is over

Question 28

What are the persons shown in this poem?

Answer 28

Addresses himself in the second person before addressing the girl in he second person and then going back to himself in the last line

Question 29

What does the repetition of vocabulary show?

Answer 29

The poem is carefully structured

He is in more control of his emotions than the persona portrayed of him

Question 30

What are the themes shown?

Answer 30

His general weakness - keeps scolding himself
Lack of conviction- when criticising lesbia it makes him feel worse
Deliberate use of words and sounds for rhythm, effect and balance

Question 31

Why are the verbs balanced?

Answer 31

10 'tu' words
5 for lesbia
5 for Catullus
He is not over her
Supposed to be written to himself but is actually written to her

Question 32

What’s with the ‘q’ words? Wha is the effect?

Answer 32

7 ‘q’ words in the first ten lines
Then 7 ‘qui’ words in lines 15-18 in succession
Adds intensity to the finish