In ‘Always Marry An April Girl’,Nash’s depiction of April can be seen as misogynistic through his negative views on women’s emotional, sensitive and fleeting nature. The poet plays on the noun “April” by constantly contrasting the woman and the month against each other. “April golden, April cloudy,/Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy”. The repetitive use of the noun “April” is used to juxtapose the adjective “golden” which represents autumn and the verb “cloudy” which could connote rain and gloominess.The listing of the woman’s characteristics could suggest how women constantly change how they feel due to their ‘sensitive’ nature, which creates a change in pace. The fleeting nature is shown through the oxymoron of the adjectives, “gracious” and
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“Her mantle lap/Over my lady’s wrist too much,’ or ‘paint must never hope to reproduce the faint/half-flush that dies along her throat’:such stuff/ was courtesy” This could show how in the sixteenth century women had to be covered up because sex was strictly not for pleasure and only for producing kids.The fricative alliteration “faint half-flush” slows down the pace as the first letter of each word is emphasised to highlight the personification of the duchess’s blush. A sense of emotion is shown through the verb “blush” which could suggest affection or attraction for someone and even embarrassment. The duke’s tyrannical nature could foreshadow the Duchess death through the quote “dies along her throat”.This could indicate that another man may have made the Duchess blush which could convey the duke’s bitter tone. As all of this is the duke’s hypothesis, it could be biased as the monologue is solely based on his point of view. In comparison, in “A Mother In A Refugee Camp” the mother’s love for her son is pure and is not built on jealousy or …show more content…
“Lost as a candle lit at noon,/ Lost as a snowflake in the sea.” The liquid alliteration creates a sense of lightness and illustrates the sensation of being completely lost in love.The similes suggest how the narrative persona wants to be just like a snowflake, as they melt and vanish into the deep sea. She uses the sea to demonstrate how deeply she wants to fall in love. The sibilance “Lost as a snowflake in the sea”, slows down the pace which creates a sense of heaviness, this juxtaposes with the sense of lightness created in the line before. With the use of imagery, the poet conveys the narrative persona’s need for love, and to simply feel so deep in love that she is lost in the dark as if she could vanish and fade away. Moreover,Teasdale displays the narrative persona’s longing for love and passion. “A spirit beautiful and bright,/Yet I am I, Who long to be/ Lost as a light is lost in light.” The plosive alliteration “beautiful and bright” slows down the pace and emphasises the elegance and beauty of love. The simile “Lost as a light is lost in light” this again creates the impression of being lost, the narrative persona hunger for love is represented by how she wants to fall so deeply in love that she loses sight of who she is, in this case this is shown through how she wants to be “lost in light” as in, invisible. The liquid
“Her mantle lap/Over my lady’s wrist too much,’ or ‘paint must never hope to reproduce the faint/half-flush that dies along her throat’:such stuff/ was courtesy” This could show how in the sixteenth century women had to be covered up because sex was strictly not for pleasure and only for producing kids.The fricative alliteration “faint half-flush” slows down the pace as the first letter of each word is emphasised to highlight the personification of the duchess’s blush. A sense of emotion is shown through the verb “blush” which could suggest affection or attraction for someone and even embarrassment. The duke’s tyrannical nature could foreshadow the Duchess death through the quote “dies along her throat”.This could indicate that another man may have made the Duchess blush which could convey the duke’s bitter tone. As all of this is the duke’s hypothesis, it could be biased as the monologue is solely based on his point of view. In comparison, in “A Mother In A Refugee Camp” the mother’s love for her son is pure and is not built on jealousy or …show more content…
“Lost as a candle lit at noon,/ Lost as a snowflake in the sea.” The liquid alliteration creates a sense of lightness and illustrates the sensation of being completely lost in love.The similes suggest how the narrative persona wants to be just like a snowflake, as they melt and vanish into the deep sea. She uses the sea to demonstrate how deeply she wants to fall in love. The sibilance “Lost as a snowflake in the sea”, slows down the pace which creates a sense of heaviness, this juxtaposes with the sense of lightness created in the line before. With the use of imagery, the poet conveys the narrative persona’s need for love, and to simply feel so deep in love that she is lost in the dark as if she could vanish and fade away. Moreover,Teasdale displays the narrative persona’s longing for love and passion. “A spirit beautiful and bright,/Yet I am I, Who long to be/ Lost as a light is lost in light.” The plosive alliteration “beautiful and bright” slows down the pace and emphasises the elegance and beauty of love. The simile “Lost as a light is lost in light” this again creates the impression of being lost, the narrative persona hunger for love is represented by how she wants to fall so deeply in love that she loses sight of who she is, in this case this is shown through how she wants to be “lost in light” as in, invisible. The liquid