(Hardy/Eliot) Imagery
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- Imagery
- HARDY
- The Spell of the Rose
- 'ript the rose from the walls'
- The Going
- 'you were the swan-necked one'
- Swans are noted to mate for life
- 'one' highlights solitary nature.
- Use of pronoun suggests blame/ infatuation/ separation
- Swans seen as stately creatures (cold/ indifferent)
- Swans are noted to mate for life
- 'bending boughs'
- 'you were the swan-necked one'
- The Spell of the Rose
- ElIOT
- Flowers
- Rhapsody
- 'her hand twists a paper rose'
- Roses are typical symbols of love
- 'paper' creates an artificial/ fragile effect
- Eliot blamed women for many of the failings in society
- 'her hand twists a paper rose'
- Burial of the Dead
- 'breeding lilacs out of the dead land'
- Lilacs can be symbols of either love or death (challenging Romanticism)
- 'breeding' creates connotations of disease/ contamination
- WWII has contaminated society, no can only breed more corruption
- 'slowly twisting the lilac stalks'
- Repetition of 'twist' suggests squeezing life out of flower
- 'slowly' creates a tortuous effect
- Creates a nervous atmosphere (down-cast/ not meeting eyes)
- 'breeding lilacs out of the dead land'
- Rhapsody
- Flowers
- HARDY
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