Skull Cup Flashcards
1
Q
‘skull’
A
- microcosm of human experience
- prolonging life, turning something useless into a useful vessel
2
Q
‘spirit fled’
A
double entrendre- religious and alcohol
3
Q
‘flows’
A
- should be conciousness flowing through head, alcohol
4
Q
‘i lived.. quaffed’
A
syntax
- quaff at the end, most memorable stays in people’s minds
5
Q
‘alas!’
A
exclamation, hyperbolic, sarcastic, mocking those who philiosophise life and death
6
Q
‘what nobler substitute than wine?’
A
rhetorical- replacing big philosophical questions with silly
7
Q
‘earth’s embrace’
A
- buried in nature
- ‘embrace’ = intimate rationalising, you will still be accepted
8
Q
‘life’s little day’
A
turning whole span of existence into something minor
9
Q
structure
A
- ABAB rhyme scheme
- cyclical every quatrain completes its meaning by its consistent musicality- prolonging of life
