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Flashcards by hayley-stewart, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by hayley-stewart
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| The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas where we would dive for pearls. | The bed ‘spinning’ represents their love and how it was intoxicating and disorientating. These are references to Shakespeare’s plays and adventures in different worlds. ‘Forests’ to the Forest of Arden in As You Like It, ‘Castles’ to Hamlet, ‘Torchlight’ to Macbeth, ‘Clifftops’ to King Lear and ‘Seas’ to The Tempest. All great works of art by Shakespeare, suggesting he was just as creative in bed and Pearls represent something that is rare, beautiful and precious. |
| "My lover's words were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses on these lips;my body now a softer rhyme to his, now echo, assonance; his touch a verb dancing in the centre of a noun." | Metaphor. Just as shooting stars are striking, magnificent and light the world, Shakespeare’s kissed brighten Anne Hathaway’s world.Their bodies rhyme with each other. They echo each other. Shakespeare’s touch is like a verb dancing in a noun. Noun as a metaphor of Anne’s body. By using the vocabulary of poetry and writing, Anne links writing with the body, and more specifically, with sex. In this poem, writing is like sex, and sex is like writing: both involve repetitions, forms, nouns, and verbs. |
| "Some nights, I dreamed he'd written me,the bed a page beneath his writer's hands" | In this metaphor, the bed becomes a page upon which Shakespeare writes Anne. The writing/sex metaphor is extended (the bed is a page, and Anne is the writing on it). |
| "Romance and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste. In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on,dribbling their prose." | references to writing. Anne mentions two genres of playwriting – romance and drama – both of which Shakespeare knew well. All the romance and drama contained in these pages was played out or begun on their bed, The word romance is deliberately placed at the end of the line nine to emphasize that this is what she most associates with their relationship not the drama. Duffy compares the poetry and sensuality of their lovemaking with those who slept in the other bed. In a withering, disparaging comment she asserts that they are only capable of dribbling their prose. The implication is clear — poetry symbolises the most skilful and creative use of language while prose by comparison is ordinary, utilitarian and unexceptional. |
| "living laughing love - I hold him in the casket of my widow's head as he held me upon that next best bed." | Alliteration makes the phrase song like and uplifting, suggesting their love is uplifting and joyful. These lines show how she sees him in his casket as she viewed him when they were making love. Since it was very passionate and loving, she views him as an intimate and loving man, as that is how he treated her on the second best bed. |
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