what would i give? (FINAL)

Question 1

STUCTURE AND FORM

Answer 1

-in tercets (simple structure)

-chiasmic structure

-each stanza is 3 lines (evokes holy trinity), Suggests all you need in life is the holy trinity

Question 2

rhyme?

Answer 2

internal rhyme suggests sometghing is trapped on the inside

-regular rhyme scheme

Question 3

effect of monosyllabic language

Answer 3

-disguises the complexities of religion

Question 4

what would i give for a heart of flesh to warm me through,
Instead of this heart of stone ice cold whatever i do

Answer 4

reference to Ezekiel ‘I will give you a new heart… remove your heart of stone’

-god as a cleansing force: will turn heart of stone to one of flesh if you accept gods love

-immediately establishes rligious theme

-‘whatever i do’- apathy, frustration

Question 5

REPITION OF ‘what would i give’

Answer 5

-reinforces that she would do anything to rid herself of sin

Question 6

‘what would i gove for words; if only words could come’

Answer 6

cannot express herself, ironic as she is a poet (emotions larger than words)

Question 7

‘O merry friends, go your way, I never have a word to say’

Answer 7

-indicative of exclusion, or self exclusion as her friends do not abide by her morals

-sense of moral superiority, they are yeilding to tempation

-perhaps excludes herself to supress feelings of temptation

Question 8

‘Scalding tears’

Answer 8

Oxymoron of scalding tears (echoes complicated relationship to god, both purity and pain to it)

Question 9

written?

Answer 9

1864- had already called off marriage to james collision (her love for god trumps anything)

Question 10

biblical reference

Answer 10

Ezekiel ‘heart of stone’