Women

Women

1. Porphyria's Lover

   • strong/forceful
     • 'she put her arm about my waist'
     • 'made my cheek lie there'
   • supernatural/spiritual force
     • 'she was come through wind and rain'
     • 'glided in'
     • 'she shut the cold out'
   • fragmentation
     • 'yellow hair displaced'
     • 'smooth white shoulder bare'
     • 'eyes/Happy and proud'
   • synecdoche
     • 'laughed the blue eyes'
     • 'smiling little rosy head'

2. My Last Duchess

   • objectification
     • 'that's my last Duchess painted on the wall'
     • 'Fra Pandolf by design'
   • synecdoche
     • 'a heart.. to soon made glad'
   • wild animals
     • 'Notice Neptune.../Taming a sea-horse'

3. Bishop Orders His Tomb

   • objectification
     • 'Old Gandolf envied me'
     • 'how I earned the prize!'
     • 'mistresses with great smooth marbly limbs'
     • 'so fair she was!'
   • fragmented
     • (eyes) 'glitter like your mother's for my soul'

4. Love Among The Ruins

   • unattainable
     • 'Waits me there/ In the turret'
   • fragmented
     • 'a girl with eager eyes and yellow hair/ Waits me there'
     • 'breathless and dumb/ Till I come'
   • supernatural/spiritual force
     • 'we extinguish sight and speech'

5. Up at a Villa - Down in the City

   • objectification
     • ''round the lady atop in her conch'

6. A Toccata of Galuppi's

   • unattainable
     • 'cheeks so round and lips so red'
     • 'were you happy? - Yes. - And are you still as happy? - Yes./And you?'
   • supernatural/spiritual mystery
     • 'to bite her mask's black velvet'
   • fragmentation
     • 'Dear dead women with such hair, too - what's become of all the gold?'
     • 'on her neck the small face buoyant, like a bell-flower on its bed'

7. Two in Campagna

   • unattainable
     • 'I wonder do you feel today/ As I have felt since'
     • 'Took up the floating weft'
     • 'I would that you were all to me'
   • objectified
     • 'I pluck the rose'
   • supernatural/spiritual force
     • 'your soul's warmth'

8. Love in a Life/Life in a Love

   • unattainable
     • 'I hunt the house through'
     • 'she goes out as I enter'
     • 'me the loving and you the loth'
   • supernatural/spiritual force
     • 'as she brushed it, the cornice-wreath/blossomed anew'

9. A Woman's Last Word

   • strong/forceful
     • 'Be a god and hold me/With a charm!/ Be a man and fold me/With thine arm!'
     • 'teach me, only teach, Love!'
   • unattainable
     • 'laying fresh and spirit/In thy hands'
       • 'That shall be to-morrow/Not to night'

10. Women and Roses

    • supernatural/spiritual force
      • 'Round and round, like a dance of snow/In a dazzling drift '
      • 'thy cup's heart nectar-brimmed'
    • objectification
      • 'they circle their rose on my rose tree'
      • 'which of the roses three/Is the dearest rose to me?'
    • form - very constructed rhyming couplets and use of refrain
      • rhyming couplets mirror the perfection of the women
      • dance like feel in the longer stanza - pattern of alternating iambic and trochaic
    • unattainable
      • 'How shall I fix you, fire you, freeze you/Break my heart at your feet to please you?'