'The cold earth slept below' = Death
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- Created on: 20-02-21 17:44
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- 'The cold earth slept below' = Death
- Language
- "Beloved" = only example of tenderness, otherwise detached
- Gloomy, morbid, melodramatic
- "Lips pale" death imagery
- Thematic link
- Death is flowing all around him. Death prevails in life
- Grief process of detachment and desensitisation of Harriet's death
- Death of Shelley's pregnant first wife Harriet by deliberate drowning in Hyde Park
- Indicted Percy in suicide note
- Death of Shelley's pregnant first wife Harriet by deliberate drowning in Hyde Park
- Atheistic exploration of death
- Shelley = expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet on atheism
- Pale from the moon? Or death?
- Moon = symbol of femininity
- Nature is reclaiming what is rightfully hers
- Lexical field of cold/death
- Light imagery
- Thematic link
- "Fen-fire's beam". Leads travellers astray as poet is being led astray
- "Slept" - personified, latent, dormant
- "Beloved" = only example of tenderness, otherwise detached
- Structure
- X4 Sestets
- Slant rhymes = speaker's dejection and confusion
- Interpretations
- Autobiographical
- Death of pregnant Harriet, his first wife
- Drowned herself in Hyde Park
- Indicted Shelley in her suicide note
- Date changed by Mary Shelley. Not intended to be published???
- Death of pregnant Harriet, his first wife
- Autobiographical
- Thematic link
- Death is flowing all around him. Death prevails in life
- Grief process of detachment and desensitisation of Harriet's death
- Death of Shelley's pregnant first wife Harriet by deliberate drowning in Hyde Park
- Indicted Percy in suicide note
- Death of Shelley's pregnant first wife Harriet by deliberate drowning in Hyde Park
- Atheistic exploration of death
- Shelley = expelled from Oxford for writing a pamphlet on atheism
- Language
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