Sea + Sardinia Flashcards
(17 cards)
What is the genre?
-Travelogue
-lyrical + modernist elements
What is the audience?
-fans of Lawrence,
-modernist + romantic literature movement
-interested in travel and reflection
What is the purpose?
- inform + capture like a typical travelogue beauty of natural world
- explore freedom + escapism
- deep disillusionment with modern, static life
- to express the emotional and philosophical liberation that Lawrence finds at sea
Give me three contextual factors
- heavily censored, infamously for Lady Chatterley’s Lover, due to explorations of sexuality and critiques of industrial civilisation.
- Felt need to escape post-war cultural landscape and connect with natural world.
- modernist writer, writing style reflective of romantics. Movement concerned with beauty + power of nature, destructive tendencies of modern technology, dehumanising effect on societies.
What is the fist voice?
Lawrence adopts an awe-struck, sensuously naturalistic voice that immerses the reader in the elemental beauty of the sea.
Quote 1
Ah the lovely…
Quote 1 : analysis
- exclamatory tone = instinctive expression of delight
- spontaneous emotional release
- x 5 rep of pre-mod = sincere delight for sublime beauty
🌍 Nature triggers emotional awakening.
🎭 Romantic genre: nature = sensory impressions to evoke spiritual renewal
quote 2
‘sea like sequins shaking’
quote 2 analysis
-simile, alliteration = sacred tone
- imagery = glamorous precious image
- kinetic beauty = symbol of enchantment and elegance.
🌍 Reader immersed in a shimmering, alive world.
🎭 Literary travel mythologises landscape.
quote 3
the sky all golden …
quote 3 analysis
-colour symbolism, rep
-divine warmth, joy, vitality energy
- repeated “all” creates a totalising heavenly scene.
- 🎭 Romantic nature worship through light symbolism.
🔁 Pattern: Elemental grandeur, light as redemptive force.
quote 4
a golden hour for the heart of man
quote 4 analysis
-Lawrence links landscape to emotional truth
-Metaphor + exclamation.
- “Golden hour” symbolises a sacred moment of clarity “Heart of man” universalises this feeling — it’s not just personal, it’s deeply human. Nature reflects and restores emotional truth.
- Reader invited to feel uplifted, emotionally reconnected, as if nature offers healing or revelation.
- Romantic travel writing uses landscape as a metaphor for emotional or spiritual journeys.
- nature = emotional awakening, in contrast to modern life’s dullness.
voice 2
Through a philosophical and reflective voice
quote 1
ah if one could sail for ever…
quote 1 analysis
