Creado por Diana Domingues
hace más de 7 años
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Pregunta | Respuesta |
"Full of desire I lay, the sky wounding me" | Full of desire usually positive In this case, the desire is consuming her |
"Each cloud a ship without me sailing" | Envious of tranquility, calm and freedom of sky and clouds Contrasts with her inner turmoil Unable to move on (idiom: Ship has sailed) |
"mortal death, heartbreak" | Conveys how important Raine thinks love is: One would die without it Hyperbole, conveys the extent of her feelings |
"My human speech forsook my fingers" | Losing grasp and control of her life Cannot express her emotions through words Enjambment: Cannot control her emotions |
" and out of reach were Homer's ghosts, the savage conches of the beach" | 'Ghosts' signifies she is troubled Calming images of beach now causes anger Literature (Odyssey and Iliad) now is out of reach (she cannot express herself through the English language) Enjambment: Cannot control her emotions |
"The sky spoke to me in language clear" | She can now understand English speech when she couldn't before The sky could symbolize how God spoke to her soul (Raine was a devout catholic) Volta - the words spoken completely changed her life |
"Know now that you are born along with these clouds, winds and stars" | Comparing her to nature. She shouldn't be jealous of nature as she is part of it Imperative, shows authority and wisdom |
"This world you with the flower and with the tiger share" | Juxtaposition. World is both delicate and fierce Life is filled with highs and lows -one cannot be without the other Contrasts with 1st stanza, when nature was wounding her |
"Burned with the holy fire of passion" | We are fueled by passion 'Holy' Love is sacred and important 'Holy' could also mean were are not fueled by romantic love, but God's love |
Short stanzas | Fleeting emotions, wants suffering to end quickly Idea of movement (moving on) |
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