This Lunar Beauty Flashcards
primarily uses ____ and juxtaposes strong rhymes with slant ones
trochees
the _____ could signify rising, prominence, setting and birth, life death.
three part structure
“Love shall not near//___//Nor sorrow take// His endless look”
This sweetness here
When was it written?
1930
“But this was never// A ___ endeavour”
ghost’s
“For time is ___//And the heart’s changes//Where ghost has haunted”
inches
“And ___ is// The loss of this”
daytime
“This like a ___//Keeps other time”
dream
“This lunar beauty// Has no __ // is complete and early:
history
Auden depicts a type of unalterable beauty, a beauty that could be described in _____ terms as ‘originally’ or ‘primal’; it is wraithlike, otherworldly, exceeding the bounds of reality and the mutability of human sensations.
Nietszchean
it stands outside the realm of the ____, testifying to the incommensurability of the speaker’s own experience and the reader’s experience of the poem’s own rhythm
reducible
the pre-pubescent beauty is not….
ravage day sexual desire
What is the meter?
dimeter (two beats per line) - the smallest measure meter can sustain
The poem has a ______ feeling created by the rhythm and rhyme
lyrical
_________ rhyme scheme
unstructured
poem is rooted in the _______ ________ of rhythm
subversive possibilities
Mesmerises by the incommensurability of the type of beauty evoked and the poem’s own ______, almost __________ two-beat rhythm, whose overpowering resonance seems to ward off the ‘ghost’ of mortality that hovers over the poem
ethereal
hypnotic
The ______ ________ rhythm testifies to speaker’s aspiration for some transcendental experience
forcefully cadenced
the sublime power of the poem’s own rhythm exceeds the confines of linguistically and culturally mediated reality, so the poems disclose their own inability to represent what is by essence beyond ______ ________.
semantic reduction
There is a sense of ____ ________.
formal reticence
what is _______ is not ____ but ______.
endless, love, sorrow.
Sorrow is ________ the position of the poet, looking at the beautiful already looking back at him.
personified
compellingly simple but almost esoteric language is used to testify to his aspiration for a transcendental experience
e.g. his cryptic use of ‘lover’ and the ambiguous demonstrative pronoun ‘this’ or obsessive adjective ‘His’
