Laura "whisper'd like the
restless brook" described as
"like a rush-imbedded swan, /
Like a lily from the beck / Like
a moonlit poplar branch"
Relating her to nature shows how
curiousity is natural. Swan shows her
elegance and feminity. Lily shows
chastity. All three are stuck and can't
move. Suggests Laura has no free will.
Animals
Goblin Market
"One had a cat's face,
/ One whisk'd a tale"
Imagery
Sexual
Goblin Market
"...cautioning lips, / with tingling
cheeks and finger tips. / ....
pricking up her golden head"
"She suck'd until her lips were sore"
Gustatory
Goblin Market
Fruit references throughout
Twelfth Night
"If music be the food
of love, play on..."
[women's] love may
be called appetite, /
no motion of the liver,
but the palate"
Olfactory
Ghosts
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Love as suffering
Twelfth Night
Olivia: "Even so quickly
may one catch the plague?"
Violent Imagery
Orsino relating love to hunting
(first scene where Orsino alludes
to the myth of Acteon)
Antonio: "...my desire /
more sharp than filed steel"
Orsino calling Cupid's arrow
"rich golden shaft" allusions
to arrow peircing the skin"
"If music be the food of love...
so that it may sicken and die"
Jane Eyre
Symbolism
Jewels
Twelfth Night
Malvolio: "...play with
my - some rich jewel"
symbolises power
Olivia gives away pearls and
jewellery to show affection
Othello
Structure
Irregular meter or rhyme scheme
Goblin Market
Quickens the pace.
Shows sense of urgency.
Varied syntax
Twelfth Night
"Where's Antoinio, then?" tacked
on the end of a line shows how he
is just an afterthought to Sebastion.
Lists
Asyndetic (no
"and" at the end"
Goblin Market
Listing of the fruits
Personification
Goblin Market
"Moon and stars gaz'd in at them / Wind
sang to them lullaby" Nature's children