Death and the Moon Flashcards
1
Q
What is it about?
A
An elegy honouring a loved one who has died — Adrian Henri, with whom she had a ten year relationship, ending in 1982.
2
Q
‘The moon is nearer than where death took you’
A
- Distance to loved one after death - tries to connect
3
Q
‘Fistful of earth , hard rain, tough confetti, and tossed it down’
A
- violent/harsh imagery
- distorted positivity of grief
4
Q
‘The black night is huge, mute, and you are further forever than that’
A
-fricative alliteration
- acceptance stage of grief
- gloomy imagery
5
Q
’ like morse code on the wood over your eyes, your tongue, your soundless sleep. Then as I slept my living sleep the ground gulped you’
A
- Oxymoronic
- Simile
- These ways of communicating
6
Q
Links to Streetcar
A
- Blanche doesn’t accept life as it is and as a result, she is doomed to fail
- Allan Grey – both experience the death of a loved one
- Loss of Belle Reve – denial
- Anger and frustration at Stella
- Talks about the grim reaper and death
- Irritable
- Struggle to communicate
7
Q
Context
A
Eulogy to her ex-husband’s partner comforting her in his death
