Prospice
- Created by: Lauren Meisner
- Created on: 06-04-13 14:51
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- Prospice
- Context
- Elzabeth and Robert Browning, inward looking as a couple, intense, dependant relationship, he is waiting for Heaven where he can be reunited with the woman who was his soul
- 'Prospice'- to look forward or to be watchful Elizabeth died in 1861
- Layout
- 'The post of the foe;' plosive sounds
- Imagery
- Religious, death, sadness, anger, weakness
- Character
- This is an intensely personal poem when his wife died, like LL
- 'Yet the strong man much go:'
- physiological battle not real battle
- 'And the elements' rage the fiend -voices that rave', he uses religious diction
- Rhythm
- Predominantly anapaestic rhythms, alternating rhyme, taling about wanting to die, but regular? odd
- 'Fear death?- to feel the fog in my throat,
- rhetorical question, 'fog' like he is crying, 'The mist in my face', unsure setting, does;t know what to do, pathetic fallacy, 'When snows begin', symbolic= coldness, cold body
- gothic setting, Frankenstein, fighting elements, chasing the monster, Arcitic
- rhetorical question, 'fog' like he is crying, 'The mist in my face', unsure setting, does;t know what to do, pathetic fallacy, 'When snows begin', symbolic= coldness, cold body
- 'Through a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained, The reward o fit all'
- Reward is for it all to stop, links to Bishops. Also links to LL idea of fighting, lost his support of his wife
- 'I would date that death bandaged my eyes-', describes himself as a wounded solider, arrogant to take on death? He doesn't want to become a feeble man he wants to embrace death
- He really want sot be with her soon, represented by repetition, 'Shal dwindle, shall blend, Shall change', his wife is alive in another form
- 'I shall clasp thee again', 'thee' was an intimate away of addressing someone and he believes inHeaven as he believes he will see her again
- 'And with God be the rest!'
- final line is more tender language, seeking peace, links to Toccata Gal. contrast between hyperbolic/tender/gentle language, again death is not the end, oddly hopeful, Bishops?
- 'And with God be the rest!'
- 'I shall clasp thee again', 'thee' was an intimate away of addressing someone and he believes inHeaven as he believes he will see her again
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