Poetry quotes: HTGTF, Twiknam garden, holly sonnet 14

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Created on: 31-05-13 22:59

TG- Hyperbolic arresting oppening

'Blasted with sighs and surrounded with tears'

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TG- Impression of poignant sorrow through repeated references of..

'tears' and 'weeping' 'stone fountain'

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TG- What is he in the garden?

a 'serpent' in 'paradise'

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TG- He has converted what to what?

'manna' to 'gall'

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TG- Paradoxical state about love..

'nor yet leave loving' and wants to be a 'senseless piece of this place'

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TG- Structurally went from referencing tars to this point about women.. so mocking throughout?

'can't judge a woman's thoughts by tears'

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TG- true sympathy of misfortune or misogynist comment?

'O preverse sex, where none is true but she'

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H- The first line of stanza 1 and 2 foregrounded with parallelism..

'wilt thou forgive that sin'

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H- references himself to christian doctrine...

says he 'begun' a sinner

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H- The first line of stanza 3 is foregrounded by deviation..

'I have a sin of fear'

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H- a violent image of his fear of hell and salvation, thinks he will ...

'perish on the shore'

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H- pun on his illegal marriage

'thou hast not donne' 'for i have moore'

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H- Biblical allusion to prodigal son

'wallowed in sin'

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H- Poet is responsible for his own life and so is solely responsible for his sin

'I have spun/ my last thread'

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H- the final cadence of the fourth question in the first two stanzas falls rather than rises..

goes from 'before' to 'score'

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10- arresting oppening ..Desperation to be punished

'Batter my heart'

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10- plosives and alliteration of the consonant 'b'

'break blow burn'

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10- as if he's in a binding legal contract he's trapped in- inner conflict

'betrothed unto your enemy'

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10- mocking desire for purity

'nor even chaste, except you ravish me'

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10- semantic field of marriage and

'divorce' 'untie'

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TG- Impression of poignant sorrow through repeated references of..

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'tears' and 'weeping' 'stone fountain'

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TG- What is he in the garden?

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Card 4

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TG- He has converted what to what?

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Card 5

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TG- Paradoxical state about love..

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Poetry quotes: HTGTF, Twiknam garden, holly sonnet 14