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15 Cards in this Set
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"Winter Day" |
Pathetic fallacy reflects how they are emotionally cold towards eachother |
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"Sun was white" |
The sun is drained of life, like how love was drained from their relationship |
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"chidden of God" |
Bleakness- the narrator now sees everything in a negative way |
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"Starving sod" |
Alliteration of sibilance and personification of the ground emphasises the impression of suffering- the lifeless ground reflects their dying relationship |
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"ash" |
Their love has burnt out. |
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"rove//Over" |
Enjambment mimics how her "eyes" move over his face. The similar sound and look over "rove" and "Over" reflect the boredom that his former lover feels. |
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"riddles...played...lost" |
Semantic field of game shows how relationships should be fun and playful but theirs became "tedious" and he "lost". Riddles are confusing and usually take alot of thinking to solve, clearly the couple were not prepared to put in the effort to solve these "riddles" |
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"The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing" |
Oxymoron emphasises her complete lack of feelings towards him. "Deadest" could be argued is not a word. The uncommon superlative emphasises how bored and unhappy she was, which was beyond death. |
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"Alive enough to have the strength to die" |
She was the one who ended the relationship. She chose to let her smile die. Ambiguously, the narrator may be telling the reader that she chose to let the love between them die as well. |
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"bird a-wing...." |
Ellipsis represents the time that passes between the third and fourth stanza. The third stanza is about his relationship, the fourth is about how the painful memories of relationship affect him in the present |
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"wrings with wrong" |
Alliteration emphasises his pain and anguish |
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Poem ends and begins with the pond |
Cyclical structure. Endless cycle of how a past memory will cause him pain in the present |
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"God-curst" |
The "t" in crust is more harsher than "chidden" in the first stanza. This shows how he has become more bitter over time. |
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"Greyish" |
Repetition of colour from the first stanza emphasises the decay and how his life will always be pessimistic |
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Form |
First and last lines of each stanza rhyme- memory of past returns to affect the narrator in the present. Indented first line slows the pace of the poem by creating a pause, hints at his sadness |
