Ruined Maid Flashcards

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Your face blue and bleak but now I’m bewitched by your delicate cheek

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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

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Structure

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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

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O didn’t you know I’ve been ruined said she

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Boastful brocade -irony
Lower social class
Lost dignity
Ruined =broken un fixable! has nothing, (contrasts to how she now has many things

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