marrysong
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- Created on: 28-12-19 15:44
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- Marrysong
- Tone
- wonder/ curiosity /annoyance /resentment --> acceptance
- Structure
- iambic pentameter
- 3rd person, but about 1st person experiences
- in some ways navigable structure BUT no rhyme scheme, some unexpected end rhymes
- Purpose
- to describe a relationship between a husband and wife whose relationship is constantly shifting due to the wife's mental/emotional state. compares her mind to a landscape
- Content
- begins by speaker saying he has yet to fully figure his wife out, she is an enigma to him.
- the wife's shifting perspectives are violent enough to change the landscape of the relationship
- Analysis
- lines 1-6
- 'he never learned her, quite'- not quite understanding, basis of rest of poem
- 'without seasons'- cannot predict her mental weather and changeability
- 'shifted- instability, volatile, sudden
- speaker is semi-omniscient, sees into mind of husband, yet describes wife's emotions
- lines 15-17
- delayed volta- realisation!
- last two lines- conclude argument Shakespearean style, he realises her mind is more complex than he had conceived, only way to understand her is to spend more time with her
- lines 7-14
- 'he charted'- made note of what/why/how she changed
- 'wilderness again'- wife is capable of having complete control not one 'true map'. she is mysterious, illusive, capricious, playful
- 'tasting of sea'- tears?
- 'all,all'- repeat signals confusion, exasperation
- 'jaunty'- playful
- lines 1-6
- Tone
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