Twice

Question 1

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Answer 1

ao3: women did not have the right to vote and they often became dependant on their husbands.
persona: scouting female, pledges love to a spiritual power.
Would rather face spiritual judgement than engage in a relationship.

Question 2

1. ‘I took my heart in my hand’
2. ‘O my love, O my love.’
3. ‘Yet a woman’s words are weak’
4. ‘You should speak not I’

Answer 2

1. Subversive persona as she takes ownership for her own relationship emphasised through ‘my’, she dictates her marital status not society.
2. Romantic language.
3. Idea of an unequal relationship. Rossetti’s silence, refrain, her words are not heard.
4. Emphasis of ‘You’ , strong assertions and imperatives create an activ, direct voice. Failure- she has accepeted passivity under gender oppression ‘sameness’

Question 3

1. ’ You took my heart in your hand’
2. ’ With a critical eye you scanned’
   3, ‘unripe’
   4.’ Till the corn grows brown’

Answer 3

1. Mask of civility, sinister. Forceful voice. Duplicity. Physicality. Pronoun change.
2. Monotonous, marriage market. Clinical- nothing left unnoticed. Looking for prospects. Investigating purchase. Compartmentalised- reduced to her constituent parts.
3. Rossetti’s nature symbolism/ metaphors to show passage of time.
4. Fertility, unequal relationship. The woman’biological clock.

Question 4

1. ’ As you set it down it broke- Broke, but I did not wince’
2. Nor sung with the singing bird’

Answer 4

1. Repetition over enjambment. The strength of the character as she perseveres in the face of adversirty.
2. She cannot enjoy the beauty of nature that has been spolied for her, cornflowers as a repeated motif of time , the semantic field of lost potential. Musical motif demonstrates the loss of appreciation for nature- trial of faith.

Question 5

1. ‘O my God, O my God’
2. ‘My hope was written on sand’
3. ‘Now let Thy judgement stand’

Answer 5

1. Brackets indicated reppression , now she is devoted to religion. Gives herself freely to God to return the power she lost. Asserts ownership. Spiritualreeated refrain. Noparenthesis- public declaration of religious faith.
   Ecotheology- God’s presence within nature.
2. Timemarker. Sand is fleeting however demonstrating the lmited power women could have in the victorian regime.
3. ‘Repeated ‘judgement’ can only be accepted by God.

Question 6

1. ’ This contemned of a man,
   This marred one heedless day’
   2,’This heart take thou to scan.’
2. ’ Refine fire with its gold, Purge Thou its dross away.’
3. ‘Whence none can pluck it out’

Answer 6

1. The missing ‘it’, anaphoric repetition of ‘this’ - strong, proving to be a riddle.
2. Focusing on what he did. Evades reflection.
3. Fire symbolism to cleanse her of her impurities- despite declaring her new power she still has to focus on her vanity when meeting a man, her heart is gold, she doesn’t underestimate herself. Religious illusion. Forceful language introduces the return of physicality.
4. She is holding her heart for eternity, gave up on fulfilling the Victorian path of life.

Question 7

1. ’ I take my heart in my hand’

Answer 7

1. Direct repeat of staza 4’s opening. Predictions- furture tense. Strength in adversity, matrimony to God.

Question 8

AO5

Answer 8

Marsh- ‘The poet is a dramatist not auto-biographer.’
‘ these women are also the betrayed women… by men and society.’