Wuthering Heights Flashcards
“The horizons ring me like faggots”
Feels surrounded, she’s turning around
Initial mood = entrapment in a wide open space
Essentially trapped in the mind
“But they only dissolve and dissolve like a series of promises, as I step forward.”
Theme of DISSOLUTION
Repetition - bitterness of speaker - she’s actively trying to escape but efforts are futile
Enjambement - proof of possibility between horizon and promises, but this is false
“The wind // pours by like destiny”
“Everything in one direction”
“Water”
“Flee”
Fate
“Everything” - absolute, wind = destiny
Lack of control, resigned here, metaphysical force
Context
Written after walk with daughter on Yorkshire moors to visit in laws
Being mailed into space // a thin, silly message”
Eg in wind - hill that was ripped off surface of the earth
“Lintel and sill have unhinged themselves”
- parts of a window and door rather than the whole image to suggest broken thoughts, disrupted mind
- drawn from domestic architecture
“Of people the air only remembers a few odd syllables”
The idea of fate
Landscape is eternal
Gleam like small change
Insignificance
False hope
Hughes house survived
Reflects home, mind
