The destructive power of love Flashcards
Paragraph 1
(TGG + S(AFK))
The authors portray love as something that becomes inevitable with loss, causing destruction for those who have it.
TGG-
1) “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past!”
2) “but it was all going too fast … he had lost that part of it … forever”
3) “To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size”. (The eggs)
S(AFK))-
1) “Who shall say that fortune grieves him?”
2) “Love but her, and love for ever” (Questioning whether we are fated to be with one person)
3) “Never met - or never parted we had never been so broken hearted”
Paragraph 2
(TGG + WSLTH)
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Love can turn to obsession for the characters which can take over from rational thought and cause destruction.
TGG -
1) ‘Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay’
2) ‘he says he’s read a Chicago paper for years on the chance of catching a glimpse of Daisy’s name.’
3) “He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths–so he could ‘come over’ some afternoon to a stranger’s garden.”
4) ‘His life had been confused and disordered since then’
WSLTH -
1) “sithens in a nett I seke to
hold the wynde”
2) “Yet may I by no meanes my weried mynde Drawe from the Deere”
3) “The vayne travaill hath weiried me so sore”
Paragraph 3
(TGG + S(AFK))
The destructive power of love can ruin a persons hopes and dreams for the future by adding a pessimistic taint to human life, after being ruined.
TGG-
1) “The green light”
2) “Her mouth was wide open and ripped a little at the corners”
3) “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that held them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made”
S(AFK)-
1) “Me, nae chearful twinkle lights me; dark despair around benights me”
2) “Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!”
3) “Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee, warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee.” (pledge and wage don’t fully rhyme but have a similar consonant sounds which regulates the meter and carries on the poem).
