Quotes Flashcards
(17 cards)
Duchess quote 1
Notice Neptune, though- taming a sea horse
Wants that to be the last thing remembered by the messenger, powerful impression
Embarrassed of the smile he could not destroy, so gives himself the ability to control it.
Bronze statues are hollow, contain no substance inside, skin deep.
Copper can be melted and changed
The fresco and the memory of her smile towards fra Pandolf is permanent
Pluto- underworld
Jupiter- skies or heavens
Close relations with death and afterlife
Polytheism- duchess worshipped many, and many worshipped the duchess
Duchess quote 2
‘Thought a rarity’
Seen as special, however to Neptune it’s just a possession
Not a goddess, or an equal
other men saw the duchess as special, one of many to duke
Duke warns messenger that if the duchess’ behaviour was not rare, but common, the new wife would receive the same fate
Duchess quote 3
‘I gave command- then all smiles stopped’
Patriarchal power of ‘command’
Stopped sounds definite, however the untamed, uncontainable smile remains in the painting
A fresco, remains engraved in his memory and the palace walls
Structure- Duchess
Rhyming couplets- longing for partnership
Free form-cannot contain his emotions, could not contain the duchess
Duchess quote four
‘White mule’
Oxymoronic- mule seen as mixed and impure
White, pure ‘untainted by morality of a sexual nature’ by definition
Beast of burden, duchess was a burden to the duke
Sterile
Wordsworths views- Prelude
Nature is a living personality
Nature is influenced by a divine spirit
ROUSSEAU- nature vs nurture
Nurture- experience builds the individual
His experience with nature manipulated his morals, becoming a great teacher
Prelude quote 1
‘Small circles glittering idly in the moon’
Small- minuscule and insignificant detail
Naivety of self importance
Idly, without purpose or function
Childhood belief that nature is purely for beauty
Prelude quote 2
‘Until they melted into one track of shimmering light’
Navigation- moon cycles and constellations for direction and time
Nature aids humanity
A guidance in life
Prelude quote 3
‘Towered up between me and the stars’
Towered-man made and structured
Alternate definition- bird soaring at great heights
Nature is free, uncontrollable, and predatory
Some believe a link between heaven and earth
Tower- towered or spited churches, a new belief, guidance and teacher
Me- belittling height and vastness
Stars- egos-centric human belief that we are the core of the solar system, world revolves around humans as individuals
Barrier, encapsulates, restricts, contains
The emigree quote 1
My city hides behind me. They mutter death,
And my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight
Protected and maintained as shadow falls behind her
Personification
Shadow is what makes her human, something she carries around
Evidence of existence
Sunlight and darkness- oxymoron, antithesis, and text foils
Emigree quote 2
It tastes of sunlight
Epistrophe- sunlight
She always comes back to memories of her home
Synaesthesia.
Emigree quote 2 and 3
The bright filled paper weight
Docile as paper
Her city is pure
Symbolism of everything yet to come, a story yet to be told
The emptiness of the future is pinned down by the paper weight
Her and her country remain obedient to each other
Her memories of joy and happiness keep her attachment to her city
Remains quote one
I see broad daylight on the other side
Looter becomes intangible, ceases to exist
Light gives images of hope and happiness- a twisted irony
Remains quote 2
Probably armed, possibly not
Syntax and Caesura alludes to doubt, inconsistent thought, cognitive dissonance
Man made into machine, no individual
Man metamorphosise into mechanistic Automator
Remains quote 3
Somebody else and somebody else
Are all of the same mind
Removal and dislocation of personal responsibility
Robbed of conviction
Forged into a machine
Military- brain almost becomes censored or wiped
Man metamorphosise into mechanistic Automator
Bayonet charge one
King, honour, human dignity etcetera
Dissipation of desensitisation
Patriotic indoctrination caused by propaganda
aiding dehumanisation
Exposing realities of war
Bayonet charge quote two
In what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations was he the hand pointing that second?
His arm and rifle becomes a clock hand, where it is placed decides destiny and the fate of his ‘enemies!
