Up at a Villa- Down in the City
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- Created on: 15-05-13 12:58
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- Up at a Villa- Down in the City
- Rhythm
- Starts as rhyming triplets, then couplets, then gets a bit more confusing, lots more rhymes, to represent the accumulationof the city
- Contrast between order and disorder, rhyme shceme out of control
- Rhyming at the end is comic, 'a-holding the yellow candles/another a cross with handles/ for the better prevention of scandals', , candles are significant in religious ceremony but are described with as much importance as the handles or scandals
- Is it a celebration of the Church of is it an excuse to celebrate, he is obsessed with material items Browning uses visual details a lot
- Starts as rhyming triplets, then couplets, then gets a bit more confusing, lots more rhymes, to represent the accumulationof the city
- Layout
- Repetition, 'money, money', greedy, grasping, like Bishops. Also SpanishClois. because of the anger, wanting, 'Had I plenty of money'
- While up at a villa one lives/no more than a beast'
- Similie, you'll become an animal in the countryside
- Punctuation shows restlessnesss, 'I scratch my own, soemtimes, to see if the hair's turned wool', lots of caesuras
- sibalance, 'spout and splash/ sings and springs'
- '-and seven swords stuck in her heart!' 7 joys of Mary, sibalance
- 'Bng-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-te-tootle the fife', noises of drums just as important as Mary's role, suggests this isn't a religious person, more involved in materialistic things, the chaos of the city, excitment, people banging their feet, 'n'No keeping one's haunches still'.
- This is repeated at the last line to end poem
- Context
- Browning loved Italian countryside, it's beauty, sweeping landscape, this poem is disapproving countryside so it could be meant to be looked down upon
- Imagery
- city is lively, 'You watch who crosses and gossips', seems to be someone who thrives on stimulus
- though all that she wears is ssome weeds round her waist in a sort of sash', attitudes to women can be trashy, or naked, slight, slight letchery, enjoys staring at fountain at strange shaps
- 'With a pink gauze all spangles,', rashy, all her finery on, she is supposed to be Virgin married carried through the town but she seems not very serious, he uses an ! which makes it seem less serious
- Character
- He could learn contentment, he is grumpy instead
- Judgemental, arrogant, 'fanciful signs that are painted properly, alliteration emphasises he signs impotance, seems pointless ot the reader
- 'Houses in four straight lines, not a single front awry' inward looking, not wanting to share emotion, conformities, wants things to be straight/orderly
- Cannot escape beauty of city he often injects countriyside related things into city description, e.g 'white as a curd' are the houses'
- 'the faint grey olive trees'- sounds beautiful!
- Similiar to the way Brother awerence is described as bad, btu we can see he is good depsite this, irony
- he admits soem like the countryside, 'Some think fireflies pretty, when they mix i' the corn and mingle'
- avoids autum, 'Enough of these seasons', could eb a rhetorical device, makybe Atum is so beautiful he can;t describe it
- '-only this morning, three liberal theives were shot', shocking contrasted with light jokey tone, he loves the excitment
- He can't afford the city although he loves it
- He could learn contentment, he is grumpy instead
- 'Just on a mountain-edge as bare as the creature's skull
- isolated, vulnerable, scraggs bushes, similie of the creatures skull is quite frightening! shows passion he doesn't like coutnryside, odd as you expect glowing beauty and greenness in the coutnryside
- 'The wild tulip/like a thin clear bubble of blood' how cna he see blood in a wild fbeautiful flower, suggests someone who doesn't appreciate beauty
- City is full of flattery, hyperbole,
- inks with LAR, completly diff attitude to nature, calm this is hustle and bustle which is thought of as good
- Links with ToccatoG, intoxicated w/city life
- Links with Apparent F, visual depiction, past/present
- Links with ToccatoG, intoxicated w/city life
- Rhythm
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