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Mind Map by jessica.lovell, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jessica.lovell
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Explore/Discuss Yeats'
emotion in The Cold Heaven
- Yeats shows
his confusion
in 'The Cold
Heaven'
through his
descriptions
and language
- 'rocked to
and fro' (L7)
- rocks with
syllables of
poem
- 14,
12,
14,
12,
15
12,
13,
12,
13,
11,
13,
12
- 14,
12,
14,
12,
15
12,
13,
12,
13,
11,
13,
12
- having
existentialist
crisis
- refrain of TSC
- unknown,
wavering
- rocks with
syllables of
poem
- 'ice burned
and was but
more ice" (L2)
- Answers only lead
to more questions
- he's burned away the unknown,
but more mystery was left behind
- he's burned away the unknown,
but more mystery was left behind
- rhymes
with L4-
what is
'this'?
- contradictory
- creates
steam,
concealing
truth
- Answers only lead
to more questions
- 'confusion
of the
deathbed' (L10)
- life after death= one of the
biggest mysteries for humans
- literal
- experiencing
the
confusion
people feel
on their
deathbed
- life after death= one of the
biggest mysteries for humans
- 'rocked to
and fro' (L7)
- Pain seems to
be a large aspect
of this poem.
- 'riddled
with
light' (L9)
- /Rid/dled with /light/
- seems to
stand
alone
'/...,'
- connotes
bullet
holes
- light
(knowledge/
memories)
is piercing
him
- light
(knowledge/
memories)
is piercing
him
- /Rid/dled with /light/
- "ice
burned" (L2)
- short vowel/long
vowel blunt harsh
- juxtaposing
- both painful
- conscience-
ness
- juxtaposing
- short vowel/long
vowel blunt harsh
- "stricken" (L11)
- predicting future pain,
anticipation of death
- rhymes with 'quicken' (L9)
- falling- /strick/en
- punished by God = hell
- predicting future pain,
anticipation of death
- 'riddled
with
light' (L9)
- Yeats
appears to
be nostalgic in
this poem.
- love crossed long ago (L6)
- rocking
- /love/
crossed
/long/ ago
- remembering old times
- rocking
- should be out of season (5)
- belong to passed age
- should- it's
wrong that he
feels them now
- something's
happened to
dredge up old
memories
- rhymes with
reason but it's
against reason
- hunting season
- sibilance
- Sept1913
- meant to be rational now
- irrational memories
- meant to be rational now
- belong to passed age
- love crossed long ago (L6)
- Yeats seems be
experiencing
sadness and
loss in The Cold
Heaven.
- "I cried and trembled" (L7)
- violent emotions
- I /cried/ and
/trem/bled
- violent emotions
- "love crossed long ago" (L6)
- linked to 'fro' (L8)
- still not
over
lost
love
- betrayal?
- /love/ crossed
/long/ ago
- alliteration on stressed words
- alliteration on stressed words
- linked to 'fro' (L8)
- "vanished,
and left but
memories" (L5)
- mourning
loss of
something
- empty,
despairing
- enjambment, overflowing
- mourning
loss of
something
- "I cried and trembled" (L7)
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