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Edexcel English Literature A Level Poetry Christina Rossetti
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1858
Form
Dramatic monologue
Tone
Sombre
Symbolism of title
Idea of comfort and security, the themes in the poem contradict this- shows speakers isolation
Readings
Past tense
‘When I was dead’
Link to Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood/Temporal delights
‘Feasting beneath green orange-boughs’
‘Wine’
‘Plum and peach’
Semantic field of wealth and frivolous items
Shows sins associated with humanity, greed and over-indulgence
Link to Goblin Market- Temptation and greed as sinful
‘They ^^sucked^^ the pulp of ^^plum^^ and ^^peach^^’
Plosive
‘@@P@@ul@@p@@ of @@p@@lum and peach’
Shows speakers dissatisfaction with the people involved
‘To seek the much-frequented house:’
Tricolon
‘They sang, they jested, and they laughed’
Distance from ‘they’- speaker is deceased
‘Said one:’…’Said one:’…’Said one:’…
Distance between speaker and friends, reported speech- memory of them (further shown by the colon)
Spondee (a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables)
‘Plod Plod’
Onomatopoeia
‘Plod plod’
Contrasts monotony of previous octet, shows how temporal delights fade
‘Featureless sands’
‘Before the turn of tide’
Repetition/ Anaphora of ‘tomorrow’
Juxtaposition
‘Tomorrow’, ‘Today’ and ‘Yesterday’
Symbolises
Assonance
‘S%%ea%%’
‘S%%ea%%t’
Free, wave like
‘Eyrie-seat’
Heaven
Trochee
‘Only, I’
Asserts speakers isolation through the disrupted meter (similar to spondee)
‘I was of yesterday’
Increased use of personal pronoun ‘I’ in last stanza
The speaker is facing difficulty retaining their character amongst all of the frivolity and indulgence of others
Semantic field of discomfort synonyms
Repetition of ‘passed’
‘Tarrieth’
Biblical form of the verb ‘tarries’ ad contrasts with the simplicity of the rest of the language in the poem
Structure
Anapest (two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable)
Stanza 3, ‘Tomorrow’
Deviates from rhythm of poem
Rhythm
Iambic tetrameter (8)
Alternates with iambic trimeter (3)
BUT
Rhythm is disrupted by ANAPEST, TROCHEE and SPONDEE when new emotions are brought up