(Hardy/Eliot) Love & Desire
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- Created on: 07-04-19 14:35
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- Love & Desire
- A Game of Chess
- 'Burnished throne'/ 'Philomel'
- Allusion to Cleopatra's affair with Anthony (resulting in her suicide)
- Philomel was ***** by a barbarous king and her tongue cut out (transformed into a nightingale by the Gods)
- Eliot also uses the literary past to draw 'heat he could not derive from life'
- Ancient stories of sexual destruction continued in modern society (sexual decay)
- Begins and ends with destruction
- 'HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME'
- Repeated sparsely at first then lines culminate rapidly at the end (climax of society)
- Bustling pub scene draws upper + lower classes together
- Everyone is running out of time - 'good night' means its too late
- Reference to Hamlet and drowning of Ophelia
- 'Fear death by water' - slow death (disappearing into nothingness)
- Reference to Hamlet and drowning of Ophelia
- 'I said'/ 'he said' - words, no action
- All words, no action
- 'Burnished throne'/ 'Philomel'
- A Broken Appointment
- 'Human deeds divine/high compassion/pure loving...'
- Religious/ reverential words suggests he has hope for humanity
- Alternatively the sarcastic use of religion creates a blasphemouseffect
- Potentially mocking his first wife, Emma's religious devotion
- Appreciates politeness (small things e.g. 'manners maketh man')
- His poems are centered around the 'uncertainties and selfish nature of love and trust'
- Positivism was instigated by Auguste Comte, which described the evolution of society
- However, Hardy's knowledge of human nature did not match Comte's perfect society
- Positivism was instigated by Auguste Comte, which described the evolution of society
- His poems are centered around the 'uncertainties and selfish nature of love and trust'
- 'love alone can lend you loyalty'
- 'the hope hour stroked its sum'
- 'h' alliteration is soft + emphasises quiet hope
- Sibilance is languorous, creating a tortuous effect (hanging on every toll)
- 'stroked' is comforting, suggesting only time can comfort his loss
- Circular structure creates an endless effect
- Lazy 'l' alliteration demonstrates negligent action of not showing
- 'lend' creates a temporary effect (short imposition OR brief love)
- Repetition of 'you' pronouns creates a blameful effect
- 'the hope hour stroked its sum'
- 'Human deeds divine/high compassion/pure loving...'
- Portrait of a Lady
- 'Juliet's tomb'
- Oxymoron creates a bereft effect (left a virgin)
- Eliot uses Shakespeare's play to emphasise lack of communication leading to death
- Title alludes to novel by Henry James, which challenges expectations of women in society
- 'dying fall'
- Relationships are always doomed to fail (lack of communication)
- Opening speech of Twelfth Night is quoted at the end (beginnings/ ends)
- Epigraph of Dante's Inferno used at the beginning of Prufrock (men & women)
- 'love song' is personal/ intimate, but Eliot's persona suggests unrequited love
- Eliot insists that poetry must be written with impersonal intent (not as himself)
- 'love song' is personal/ intimate, but Eliot's persona suggests unrequited love
- Epigraph of Dante's Inferno used at the beginning of Prufrock (men & women)
- Rhapsody
- 'her hand twists a paper rose'
- 'paper rose' creates an artificial effect (typical symbol love)
- Challenging Romanticism
- Thematic use of 'twists' creates an uneasy effect (squeezing life out of relationship)
- 'paper rose' creates an artificial effect (typical symbol love)
- 'her hand twists a paper rose'
- Oxymoron creates a bereft effect (left a virgin)
- 'Juliet's tomb'
- The Phantom Horsewoman
- 'draws reign and sings to the swing of the tide'
- Punctuation pulls Hardy back and forth between fantasy and reality
- e.g. 'bring -' & 'go...'
- Emma grew up in Cornwall and loved the sea, but moved away once they were married
- e.g. 'bring -' & 'go...'
- Rhythmic beat landing on words like 'sing','swing' & 'tide'
- Grief has became a habit/routine (can't move on or forget)
- Hynes: 'stoic regret of the irrevocable passage of time'
- Grief has became a habit/routine (can't move on or forget)
- 'draws reign' stops the flow of the poem in the last line (only in death does she become his main focus)
- First and last lines of every stanza could be a poem by itself (lost in his thoughts)
- Romanticism (artistic/ literary movement which developed a deep love for nature & the supernatural)
- Michael Cox believed that Victorians 'excelled' at Ghosts
- 'gaily' and 'shaly'
- Half rhyme suggests he is losing grip on reality (emphasises distance between them)
- Emma died in 1912, after a tumultuous relationship
- Emma Gifford: Hardy 'understands only the women he invents'
- Indented lines 2-8 are more list-like due to the restricted number of words
- Half rhyme suggests he is losing grip on reality (emphasises distance between them)
- Punctuation pulls Hardy back and forth between fantasy and reality
- 'draws reign and sings to the swing of the tide'
- A Game of Chess
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