Passion- Kathleen Raine
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- Passion - Raine
- 'wounding' = serious pain but you live through it
- Oxymoron = mute telephone (something that cannot be)
- She will never hear her lovers voice
- Ideas of contrast in the first paragraph
- Imagery of cloud sailing sounds quite calming, however in contrast they are sailing without her
- Signifies that love can be both good and bad, and may not be all it seems originally
- Sailing = good and bad of the sea. Harsh and wild (stormy road of heartbreak), yet peaceful and beautiful
- Imagery of cloud sailing sounds quite calming, however in contrast they are sailing without her
- Heart break described as death. It feels like the end
- Idea of lack of speach
- Speech is fundamental and love has taken her human elements from her
- Even speech has abandoned (forsook) her and she feels lifeless
- Homer signifies even her poetic (fundamental) heritage is out of reach.
- Speech is fundamental and love has taken her human elements from her
- Savage conches
- Savage emphasises the brutality, yet conches are beautiful and this reflects that love is both brutal and beautiful
- Conches are sometime used as horns, maybe she like the conch feels empty inside and is crying for help
- 'The sky spoke to me in a language clear'
- Nothing but the sky (nature) can connect to her
- epiphanic moment where she realises that she is never alone when nature is around
- The sky is even more clear than poetry
- Sky connects as deep as her soul and advises her to forget about love, she already has what she desires
- Sky tells her that "this your nature is"
- Means that the tranquility of the nature is deep within her, however, things like love can disrupt it
- "The world you with the flower and the tiger share"
- You share the world with scary things that will cause harm, but there are also beautiful things and if you don't put yourself out in the world, you live a living death
- Structure: some lines flow in a tranquil manner, however some have more pace and irregular which reflects that life is sometimes tranquil and sometimes not
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