Rapture: Elegy
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- Created on: 21-10-19 09:35
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- Elegy
- Quotes
- '...where your bones will be brittle'
- A lot of plosive sounds
- Phatic imagery of the grave = death bed
- '...love, which wanders history, singles you out in time'
- Idea that love is lost or looking
- Felling incomplete and lost until lover
- Wanders is a continuous tense = fits with enjambment
- Tender description of falling in love for only you
- Only made for one person
- Idea that love is lost or looking
- '...with a flame'
- Idea of fiery passion
- Or the idea of going through Hell and back for love
- A single flame could represent the eternal flame = her love is eternal
- Flame also signifies control = ironic as the poem emotionally lacks control
- '...like talent, under your skin'
- Idea of being one with lover = sexual acts
- Talent is phatic imagery for fingers in a piano like movement on skin
- '...thumbs to scars'
- Religious imagery
- Thumbs presents the idea of individual consciousnes-s
- As well as fire = repetitive imagery of fire
- '...I mirror your pose, your infinite grace'
- Infinite = no limit or value
- God's wisdom is described as infinite
- The word grace has many meanings, including beauty, elegance, charm, mercy, flow, harmony, and divine love.
- Imitation is the highest form of flattery
- Infinite = no limit or value
- '...where your bones will be brittle'
- Semantics
- Semantics of death
- This is described lovingly
- Presents the idea of loving somethi-ng so much death does not stop this
- This is described lovingly
- Corporeal imagery with the repetition of body parts
- Semantics of death
- Phonology
- Harsh sounds = affricative
- Kill, spell, skull
- Suggest or represent the feeling of being teared from love
- Or the anger Carol Ann Duffy feels, when thinking of loosing a loved one
- Kill, spell, skull
- Strained phonology
- Plosive sounds with repetition of 'bones'
- Presents the harsh ejection of death
- Assonance
- Idea of moaning and sensual activities
- Harsh sounds = affricative
- Graphology/ Structure
- 15 lines
- 2 Stanzas
- Irregular structure
- Not traditional for an elegy = meant to have 16 lines
- Reinforces that the poem is not a traditional elegy
- Or that the person is not dead and therefore the last sentence is not complete
- Not traditional for an elegy = meant to have 16 lines
- The structure could resemble that their love will continue even in death
- This could be presented through the paragraph
- As well as the enjambment which is continuous throughout the stanzas
- 15 lines
- Symbolism
- Carol Ann Duffy may also use a non traditional structure for the elegy could present the idea that her love goes against the ideals of traditions
- Her being a lesbian could influence the way the poem is structured = goes against Christianity and traditions of love
- Carol Ann Duffy may also use a non traditional structure for the elegy could present the idea that her love goes against the ideals of traditions
- Context
- An elegy is a sorrowful poem to honour the dead
- Name came from the 16th century from Europe
- Consist of 16 lines
- The reason for Duffy writing an elegy although lover is not dead could present the idea of her not believing that her lover truly exists
- Or is too scared for death to take them away
- This presents the idea of control mentally and physically
- Or is too scared for death to take them away
- Form and Tone
- Obsessive love and tone
- Eros love and Mania love
- Idea of so crazy in love that they prepare/brace themselves for the future of lover
- In a form of an irregular elegy
- ****** tone
- Empathised through the corporeal imagery
- Obsessive love and tone
- Quotes
- Can be linked to Rapture = religious imagery
- Betrothal with Obsessive love
- The lack of control can be linked with You
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