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7 Cards in this Set
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miss havisham
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character from charles dickens great expectations. left on wedding day. now a bitter person
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1st verse
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refers to fiance who let her down so badly. wanted dead
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'wished him dead'
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2nd verse
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describes herself as an unmarried woman disabled by grief and despair. looks at self in mirror but does not rocognise herself
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'whole days in bed cawing noo at the wall'
'her, myself' |
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3rd verse
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psychosexual fantasy about 'lost boy' and what she does to it
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'my fluent tongue in its mouth'
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4th verse
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sums psychological predicament. 'honeymoon' has become lifetime devoted to hatred of men. angry lust for corpse of forme fiance, or any man.
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'give me a corpse for a long slow honeymoon'
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briefly describe the structure of the poem in terms of the content of the stanza's
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1st - theme of revenge
2nd + 3rd - develop description of life + state of mined 4th - returns ideas of death, violent hatred and marriage |
'give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon'
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what is the most obvious element to the structure of the poem which relates it to a dramatic monologue
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4 four-lined stanza's
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