the world

Question 1

structure

Answer 1

14 line Petrarchan sonnet (contrasts chaos, suggesting beneath the facade of the orderly of the world there is sin and evil)

division between octave and sestet shows world in two contrasting lights (day and night)

Question 2

volta

Answer 2

portrays the naked truth of the world compared to its beautiful facade depicted in octave

Question 3

‘subtle serpants gliding in her hair’

Answer 3

sibilance- lurid atmosphere

allusion to medusa- punishment for temptation

hair-as in babylon, is a promiscious image in victorian society

Question 4

‘hideous leprosy’ biblical reference

Answer 4

biblical reference to lepracy as punishment for sin (reference to highgate, punishment for sin e.g sexual disease)

Question 5

contextual link of the moon

Answer 5

idea that women are physically controlled by the moon

Question 6

symbolism of night

Answer 6

night is temptation- e.g prositution link?

Question 7

fruit imagrey significance

Answer 7

sweet and rich imagery- allusion to temporal delights

fruit- temptation (Adam and Eve)

Question 8

devil imagrey

Answer 8

balant satanic imagrey shows fate- sin leads you to satan (subverts devotion of love of a Petrarchan sonnet)

Question 9

anaphora of ‘woos’

Answer 9

difficulty to resist

Question 10

‘my feet, cloven too’

Answer 10

link to satan cloven hooves- biblical idea that evil things give you disfigurements/illness (link to olunteer work in highgate)

also a reference to incubi and succubi (mythological figures who are sexually sinful)