The Funeral
- Created by: eleanorfarnold
- Created on: 13-04-15 17:27
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- The Funeral
- Stanza 1
- alternate rhyme throughout. bodies separated like the rhyme?
- inconsistent line length = lack of conviction?
- Stanza 2
- Those hairs which upward grew, and strength and art/ Have from a better brain,/ Can better do'it;
- hair = nervous system = brain
- the hair will retain the memory of her
- except she meant that I/ By this should know my pain/ As prisoners then are manacled when they are condemned to die.
- the hair is transformed into a manacle
- ironically trapped by the memory of her
- he's already dead...
- The Good Morrow - is this because of a lack of equality - she is not here so their love can't be truly maintained...
- whatever dies was not mixed equally
- For if the sinewy thread of my brain lets fall/ Through every part,/ Can tie those parts, and make me one of all,
- hair through nervous system hold everything together - BUT hers can do it better
- her hair stops his body deteriorating
- language recreates and repeats the idea of wisps - fine connecting material like building blocks
- hair = extended metaphor
- is the hair resurrecting him?
- Those hairs which upward grew, and strength and art/ Have from a better brain,/ Can better do'it;
- Stanza 3
- If into other's hands these relics came;/ As 'twas humility/ To afford to it all that a soul can do,
- So, 'tis some bravery,/ That since you would have none of me, I bury some of you.
- he's brave not petty...
- Untitled
- last stanza = one line shorter...
- What ere she meant by'it, bury it by me,/ For since I am/ Love's martyr, it might breed idolatory,
- now he's a martyr - constant transformation of the body.
- he's becoming a relic - so is the hair. predicting worship of himself
- critics
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