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tulips Flashcards

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structure + form?

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free verse - confessional
first person present tense - reader directly involved w patient

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context?

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written while recovering in hospital from appendectomy, mental health treatments and attitudes in 50s

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eye “that will not shut”

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constricted passivity, everything has been taken over, body won’t let her shut off from world

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little smiling hooks

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adjectives positive, family + love drawing her back to life, yet she doesn’t want this

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wanted to be “utterly empty”

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wants peace + finality of death

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their redness talks to my wound

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power of nature - reminds her of past and that her heart still beats despite her desire for death
FORCING HER TO ACKNOWLEDGE VIVACITY OF LIFE

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water + nuns

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religious lexis, rebirth, afterlife, purity

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they hurt me

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red - violence, blood, danger
power of nature
flowers personified

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should be behind bars

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juxtaposes jaguar, she wants nature entrapped and hughes wants it freed

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