The Apparition
- Created by: Freddie Kitchen
- Created on: 09-05-13 19:10
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- The Apparition
- Structure
- Varying Meter - iambic pentameter, some hexameter mirrors natural conversational patterns. More unnerving
- AABBABCDC DCEFFEGGG (triple rhyme = argument) disconcerting like unnerving content
- 1 continuous stanza which is more like a burst of emotion. Not thought through. or could be seen as passionate.
- Techniques
- Hyperbole- 'O murderess I am dead' metaphysical technique dramatic and purposeful argument
- Metaphor: 'Cold quicksilver sweat' poisonous mercury- disturbing connotations like content
- Tone is aggressive but changes in last 4 lines to refective
- Business semantic 'solicitation' 'spent' which is technical not loving- metaphysical
- Phonetics monosyllabic with sharp sounding vowels 'pinch' 'sick 'shrink'
- Imagery
- Promiscuity 'feign'd vestal' 'worse arms' - frowned upon at time
- Religious 'feign'd vestal' 'repent'
- God = man, woman = humankind. Woman has rejected (Humans rejected God) but he will come back and find us in secular world (or in arms of other man)
- Judgement day: resurrection, only become innocent after sins burnt away 'painfully repent'
- Inconstancy 'aspen wretch' shaking tree- unnerving 'taper wink' inconstant light. Unnerving to senses
- AO4
- Petrarchan; rejected lover will die of unrequited love- yet anti petrarchan- not elevated tone of poem; defies convention
- Renaissance cliche; woman kills lover by refusing to satisfy his desires
- Set in a room; not a man of nature. Influenced by city life; a social world. Restriction and no escape
- Structure
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