PERCY SHELLEY: Stanzas written in dejection, near Naples Flashcards
1
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‘the sun is warm and the sky is clear;
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- focal point is nature and expansiveness
- monosyllabic simple language therefroe reader can connect with title, disregard postive imagery
- ‘Near’ havent quite reached the beauty
2
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‘might’ ‘unexpanded buds’
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- conditional tense used twice
- wasted potential
3
Q
‘Solitude’
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no person is introduced loneliness is capitalised
4
Q
‘measured motion’
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emphasises restriction and control
ironic not features of lightning
5
Q
Alexandrine
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final line longer than others- lonliness seperation
6
Q
‘i could lie down like a tired child’
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- emphasises narrators vulenrability
speaker has regressed from powerful knowledgable adult to passive miserable child
7
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‘my cheek grow cold….last monotony
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monosyllabic- staccato- until monotony stands out physically demonstrating the weight of the feeling
speaker cant summon up the energy to create more complec
8
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STRUCTURE
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- rigid regular structure, iambic pentameter= firmly bounded just as human are bounded to mortality
- 10 verses rather than familar couplets or quatrains creates freedom and dream like quality
