Poems Havisham Flashcards
Free verse but some structure to it
Suggests she is mad but still has come control left in her
Havisham is written in
Free verse but is structure into 4 stanzas of four lines
Beloved sweetheart bastard
Makes her seem as she is unhinged as she cannot even put a sentence together to begin
I’ve dark green pebbles for eyes
As if she has physically hardened over the years, becoming stony and cold because of what happened
Spinster. I stink and remember
She has become a spinster because of him. This pun shows she literally stinks but also the her thought of him are stil lingering
cawing Nooooo at the wall
Cawing is a crows sound suggesting she sees herself as a lowly creature, the fact that no is elongated emphasises the fact that she has been shouting at the walls for a long time
Trembling if I open the wardrobe
Shows she is terrified of what she looks like and what she has become
her, myself, who did this
A list of herself as if she does not recognise herself anymore
myself, who did this-to me?
For a moment she almost takes responsibility for what has happened to her but then quickly changes tone to one of anger, taking the blame off her
Puce curses
Suggests violence in her curses
Sounds not words
She is so angry she cannot even put it into words
Some nights better, the lost body over me
Depersonalises him, like he is just a body
Bite awake
Paradox between hate and love, sexually pleasuring him in her dreams then taking out her revenge on him through it
Love’s-Hate
These words are in the same sentence to show they are close but they are in different stanzas to show that they are opposites
Red balloon bursting
Red is colour of passion and blood, bursting suggests violence
