Passing and glassing (Final)

Question 1

STRUCTURE

Answer 1

-regular structure
-regular rhyme scheme in stanza 1 and 3
-steady rhythm through iambic tetrameter
-each stanza is a couplet (reflective)

Question 2

‘ALL THUNGS THAT PASS ARE WOMEN’S LOOKING GLASS’

Answer 2

looking glass- emphasis on self reflection in contrast to societal standards

awareness of transcience off time, immediately establishes momento mori

Question 3

HER BLOOM MUST FADE

Answer 3

first of many reference to flower symbolism- symbolises a passimg state of fertility? , PRIME INEVITABLY FADES

Question 4

WITHERED ROSES

Answer 4

REFERS TO OTHER WOMEN, AGE MAKES APPEARANCE WITHERED

roses also a reference to love and passion, implies decay of passion with age (as women grow old society percieves them as less desireable)

shade- cycle of nature: inevitability of aging

Question 5

FALLEN PEACH

Answer 5

alludes to fall from grace e.g immoral sexual relationship

societies view that to age is to ‘fall’

Question 6

‘Unlovely, out of reach’

Answer 6

cESUREA HALTS RHYTHM, EMPHASISIING UNLOVELY

Question 7

‘of summer joy that was’

Answer 7

SUGGESTS FLEETONG NATURE OF SUMMER (PATHETIC FALLACY SHOWS INNOCENCE AND YOUTH, enjambment from line above suggests youth has faded

Question 8

tiring glass

Answer 8

a womans dressing mirror- ideas of vanity and efforts of women to look suitable for marriage

Question 9

faded lavender is sweet

Answer 9

LAVENDAR= maturity and grace

use of sweet shows there is beauty in age

Question 10

‘SWEET THE DEAD VIOLET’

Answer 10

violets associated with virgin mary, so represent innocence and purity- decay of it shows stripping of expectations of purity with age

Question 11

‘culled and laid and cared for yet’

Answer 11

CULLED- comes from a dark place, retrieged and laid out shows healing with age

culled- disregarded from victorian society as invaluable

Question 12

‘nOR NEED SHE CRY, Alas!’

Answer 12

marks point in which rossetti revers away from rhyme scheme

tells reader to not be sound abt the inevitability of aging

Question 13

are wisdom’s looking glass

Answer 13

mirris above stanza, suggests wisdom more important tan appearance

Question 14

‘according to our work and will’

Answer 14

COLLEXCTIVE USE OF OUR-Shared suffering due to masculine ideals

Question 15

for there is nothing new beneath the sun; our doings have been done,

Answer 15

BIBLICAL REF to eelesiastes 1:9- acceptance of life’s cyclical nature, futility of striving for novelty

Question 16

published and significance of time

Answer 16

1881

had just been diagnosed with graves disease in 1972(aging at fast rate and losing percieved beauty quickly)

maria died 1876