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Flashcards by aditi bansal, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by aditi bansal
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| Question | Answer |
| Thesis | Emily Bronte presents the desperation of trying to remember her lost lover through an elegy while subtly fighting the world which is trying to suppress the memory of him as time passes, because she realises that she has gone through so much, without the joy and happiness of his company, and she knows she can still enjoy life as it is now. |
| Structure | A,b,a,b,c,d,c,d,e,f,e,f….. - consistent rhyme scheme - consistent feeling of guilt which leads to desperation Four lines in each stanza which is consistency of the same feelings again |
| Diction | Line 1-2 We hear it first in connection with the speaker's lover being "far, far removed" in the grave. So we know that coldness is symbolic of the difference and distance between the dead and the living. Line 7-8: Those fern leaves cover his grave but the speaker worries that her thoughts no longer hover there. And since he's there "forever, ever more," we get the feeling that she feels even more distance between herself and his final resting place. Lines 9-10: While her lover is cold in the earth, "fifteen wild Decembers" have passed. He's still cold in the earth and she still remembers. So things have changed, but the most important thing—her lover, cold in the earth—remains the same. |
| Figurative Language | Enjambment: connection to her theme of 'time' symbolizes her numbing mood and psychological distress as the voice 'remembers that After such years of change and suffering' she still feels the 'deep snow' separating her currently despairingly, disheartening life and all her joys and 'golden dreams' which she perceives to be 'cold in the grave' with her loved one. on the other hand, the mood of the poem changes dramatically from that of mourning to acceptance and moving on. Guilt: she feels guilty because she’s forgotten her lover and because she no longer misses him. this is evident where it says, \"have i forgot, my only love, to love thee?\".Because if you forgot a person ulove, it suggests you are completely over the person and they only really dies when their memory dies, not when their body turns cold. |
| Themes/ Tones | Memory and the past/ suffering/ love/ deceased/ TIME |
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