(Hardy/Eliot) Connections
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- Created on: 10-04-19 09:50
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- Connections
- Marina
- 'Granite islands...Woodthrush calling through the fog...My daughter.'
- 'Woodthrush' is a symbol of solidarity/ suggests land is near
- 'Granite' is an igneous rock - cooled passion/love now harsh/ lifeless/ isolated
- Solidity juxtaposed with 'what' - daughter in sight/ strong foundations
- 'Fog' obscures sight/ a 'mist over eyes'/ blinded by grief - In Prufrock it represented disease/ corruption
- Contrasts to 'O My daughter' (lamentation).Ends with a conclusion instead of question
- Poem alludes to Shakespeare's 'Pericles' + explores the theme of paternity + rediscovery
- Suggests victory over death is decided at the end of the poem
- Poem alludes to Shakespeare's 'Pericles' + explores the theme of paternity + rediscovery
- 'Those who sit in the sty of contentment, meaning Death.'
- 'Sty' is also an eye illness - suggests lack of cleanliness + clouded eyesight
- It 'seems to represent a withdrawal from the outer world and an exploration of the inner life'
- Eliot was Baptised into the 'anglo-catholic' church in 1927
- It 'seems to represent a withdrawal from the outer world and an exploration of the inner life'
- Beauty of life ('hummingbird') is negated by death - Answer of life/question
- 'Sty' creates connotations of pigs wallowing in mud - oxymoronic quality of 'contentment'
- 'Sit' suggests lack of movement
- 'Sty' is also an eye illness - suggests lack of cleanliness + clouded eyesight
- 'Granite islands...Woodthrush calling through the fog...My daughter.'
- The Voice
- 'air-blue'/'breeze'/'dissolved'
- Emma is now at one with nature (Hardy has not lost her)
- Romanticism (artistic/ literary movement which developed a deep love for nature & the supernatural)
- Insubstantial quality creates a ghostly effect (slipping out of his grasp)
- 'faltering forward, leaves around me falling'
- Soft 'f' alliteration mimics the falling of leaves (she fell + he is falling)
- Onomatopoeic quality suggests he is deafened by her death (overcome)
- 'through the thorn'
- Grief is difficult + slow but he is still pushing through
- Sharp alliteration creates a painful/ tortuous effect
- Soft 'f' alliteration mimics the falling of leaves (she fell + he is falling)
- Natural imagery of sky creates a freeing effect
- Emma was born in Cornwall and loved the sea (she moved when they married)
- Contrasts to 'oozing' which creates a heavy/ trapped effect
- Emma is now at one with nature (Hardy has not lost her)
- 'air-blue'/'breeze'/'dissolved'
- Portrait of a Lady
- Marina
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