Openings
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- Created on: 19-04-14 12:18
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- Openings
- Tennyson
- Godiva
- Epilogue
- Tennyson himself = inspired, hopes other will be inspired too
- 'She / Did more, and underwent, and overcame'
- Sets up contrast betw/Godiva + society
- Heroic figure
- Links to themes of passivity
- Foreshadows / hints at actions in poem
- Epilogue
- Ulysses
- 'idle king' 'I cannot rest from travel: I will drink/ Life to the lees'
- Theme of passivity, like Godiva he can't bear to be idle
- Difference is that his reasons are quite selfish - hers were selfless
- Heroic figure?
- Theme of passivity, like Godiva he can't bear to be idle
- 'Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole / Unequal laws unto a savage race'
- Immediately characterises him as egotistical, ungrateful, doesn't care about his people or his loyal wife
- 'idle king' 'I cannot rest from travel: I will drink/ Life to the lees'
- Godiva
- Frost
- The Wood -Pile
- 'I will turn back from here. / No I will go on farther - and we shall see'
- Uncertainty, indecisive narrator
- Engages the reader, curious what the the narrator will find on his journey, where it will lead
- 'Too much alike to mark or name a place by / So as to say for certain I was here / Or somewhere else'
- As opposed to traditional openings, which set up setting, characters etc, very little is given
- Ambiguity makes poem universal, the message regarding futility etc, can be applied to everyone because there is not set place/time
- As opposed to traditional openings, which set up setting, characters etc, very little is given
- 'I will turn back from here. / No I will go on farther - and we shall see'
- The Road Not Taken
- Introduced extended metaphor - a choice in life represented by one in a wood
- 'Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both'
- Autumnal, period of change
- Immediately focuses on story, place etc
- The Wood -Pile
- Enduring Love
- Very climactic, structurally backwards, most climactic point at beginning not end
- 'This was the moment, this was the pinprick on the timemap'
- Left an unalterable mark on Joe and and Clarissa's history - significant moment in their lives
- Seemingly small when put into perspective of their life history
- Left an unalterable mark on Joe and and Clarissa's history - significant moment in their lives
- 'What idiocy, to be racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness'
- 'labyrinths' alternative outcomes, various different results, the aftermath was not fixed
- 'rushing towards each other like lovers, innocent of the grief this entanglement would bring'
- Irony, foreshadowing future events
- The Great Gatsby
- Nick
- Characterises him as narrator
- 'I'm inclined to reserve all judgements'
- Trying to persuade reader that he is a reliable narrator
- 'I'm inclined to reserve all judgements'
- Characterises him as a person
- 'My family have been prominent, well-to-do people'
- Eager to prove himself, but also fit in - same uni as father, meant to look like great-uncle
- 'My family have been prominent, well-to-do people'
- Characterises him as narrator
- 'it was what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams'
- Foreboding, hints at Gatsby tragic end
- Nick
- Tennyson
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