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17 Cards in this Set
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Umbrella Sentence |
In both "Pyphoria's Lover" and "I Think of Thee," the poets represent women as ultimately dominated by men, which reflects traditional Victorian gender roles in which women were subordinate to men. |
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Topic Sentence 1 |
Both poets present female sexual desire and it's consequences. |
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Topic Sentence 2 |
In both poems, women are represented as dominated by and submissive to men. |
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Topic Sentence 3 |
The form and structure of each poem also reflects the way women are represented. |
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TS1 PL - "struggling" to set her "passion free" |
L - Verb Pyphoria's torn between her desire for the speaker and the necessity of observing her society's strict codes of moral behaviour for women. |
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TS1 PL - When she let's her hair "fall" |
Symbolises the loosening of the moral codes that have restricted her I/R - Word associated for Victorian readers with 'fallen' women, who were ostracised for engaging in sexual behaviour outside of marriage - regarded as shocking. |
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TS1 IToT - "renew thy presence" |
L - Imperative verb commanding Suggests her desire for his physical presence. |
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TS1 IToT - "set thy trunk all bare" |
L - As a respectable Victorian women, she expresses her sexual desire euphemistically through metaphor commanding him. D - Her desire for him to "bare" himself to her emotionally not just physically. |
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TS1 PL - "perfectly pure" |
Pyphoria pays a terrible price for expressing her sexual desire: she's strangled by her hair that symbolises her desire. L/C/R - alliteration, powerful moral message to Victorian women about consequences of expressing their sexuality - thrilled Vict reads who had great appetite for sensationalist literature. |
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TS2 PL - "propped her head up" like a doll - "mine, mine" |
L - Although Pyphoria is active in first half of poem, the second half is dominated by active verbs describing the male speaker. I - Objectifies her after he murders her and possesses her. (Repetition) |
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TS2 PL - "pale for love of her" |
L - Refers to her as "it," impersonal pronoun D - Attempts to reassert masculine dominance he feels he lost when he was "Q" |
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TS2 IToT - "twine" |
L - Verb - Her thoughts revolve around him I - Emphasises extended metaphor of a vine. D - She is dependent on him as a vine depends on a tree. |
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TS2 IToT - "strong" - breathing " within thy shadow" |
L - adjective C - Vict belief that men were stronger than women L - Metaphor - He is protective I/C - She is overshadowed by him - Ironic as Barret-Browning was a more famous poet in her lifetime than her husband |
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TS3 PL - Dramatic Monologue from male speaker - "smiling", "glad" |
C - Pyphoria remains voiceless, reflects how Vict women lacked a voice, politically and socially.
L - Adjective, Verb D - Allows the speaker to project his desired image onto her, in attempt to justify murder. Suggesting she wanted to be killed. |
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TS3 IToT - Volta comes early in the middle of the 7th line; emphasised by caesura |
Breaks Petrarchan sonnet form to illustrate her desire for her love. Suggests her impatience for his physical presence. |
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TS3 IToT - "thee" |
Repeated pronoun Brakes the usual rhyme scheme by repeating the pronoun Reflects her obsession with him. |
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CONCLUSION |
Although both poems represent female sexual desire they ultimately represent women as inferior to, or dominated by, men. |
