To Sleep Flashcards
1
Q
Form
A
• Iambic Pentameter/ Broken Petrarchan Sonnet (like sleep had no pattern).
2
Q
Transcendental Mediation
A
O’ -Transcendental meditation (graphological imagery).
3
Q
‘Forgetfulness divine:’
A
Only in sleep can we forget stuff (the only time we can forget the suffering and pain of human life).
4
Q
‘Save me’
A
Repetition a plead to sleep.
5
Q
Capitalisation
A
Capitalisation of ‘Sleep’ – exclamatory/positive.
6
Q
Positive Imagery
A
‘Lulling Charities’ -positive imagery
7
Q
And seal the hushed casket of my soul’
A
And seal the hushed casket of my soul’ – image of death, sleep is going to close the doors in my soul and allow him to escape from his body momentarily.
