Ruined Maid Flashcards
Your face blue and bleak but now I’m bewitched by your delicate cheek
Makes her seem ladylike +innocent contesting to her profession= split personailty
Alliteration - apposite sound reflects bleakness
Rhyme, childish reflects that when she was a maid she was a child but now she’s grown up or that she was nieve as thinking being a prosteture would be good
Structure
Regular structure - trapped by society
Confined to society’s expectations
Rhythms quality to poem, to show how hairy take her life may seem on the outside unless you knew her job
O didn’t you know I’ve been ruined said she
Boastful brocade -irony
Lower social class
Lost dignity
Ruined =broken un fixable! has nothing, (contrasts to how she now has many things