3. 'A quoi bon dire' by Charlotte Mew
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- Created on: 13-06-17 20:14
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- 3. 'A quoi bon dire' by Charlotte Mew
- Tone
- Slow and calm
- Sorrowful tone
- Bittersweet
- Recalls sad memories in fond tone and vice versa
- Portrayal of love
- Sadness when someone dies
- Regret at not fitting into socially accepted pattern of love?
- Unconventional love
- Themes
- Death
- Growing old
- Love and loss
- Reflection
- Death
- Context
- Charlotte Mew
- Suspected lesbian
- Dread of madness gave her motivation to write about unmotivated love
- Title
- "What's the good in saying"
- Declarative statement, not interrogative
- "What's the good in saying"
- Charlotte Mew
- Characters
- One speaker talking about her late lover
- Direct address to lover
- To loosen knot of emotions/tie up her life before death
- Ending
- Description of typical love?
- Maybe wishes she is like other people
- Structure
- Three stanzas
- Enjambment within stanzas
- Sudden break of rigid line structure in final stanza suggests change (death?)
- Tone
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