BYRON: Thirty Sixth Year

Question 1

‘unmoved’ move;

Answer 1

binary opposites reflect extrremes of love and byrons change in lifestyle
- half rhyme slow decay as anticipates death

Question 2

‘yellow leaf’

Answer 2

vibrancy perishing seasons of youth are ending

intertextual link to Macbeth, hamartia

Question 3

‘flowers and fruits of love are gone’

Answer 3

progression of age presented through the loss of flowers and fruits

Question 4

‘worm, the canker’

Answer 4

all he has left to him connote decay ‘canker’ = disease of fruit trees grief is like a disease spreads throughout the body

Question 5

‘fire…lone as some volcanic isle’

Answer 5

passion and energy inspiration still there nowhere for it to go, burns inside him

Question 6

‘the hope the fear the jealous care’

Answer 6

asyndetic listing emotions building up occurs in the middle of the poem burning passion with nowhere to go

Question 7

Awake Awake

Answer 7

anaphora, reviving spirirt
exclamatory remark celebratory next stanza is melancholy constantly switches between livliess and love, and death and lonliness elegiac

Question 8

and take thy rest

Answer 8

all regular quatrains with final line cut short reflections of mortality
catalectic