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FlashCards por Diana Domingues, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Diana Domingues
mais de 7 anos atrás
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| Questão | Responda |
| "Said the Lion to the Lioness" | Inverted syntax What is being said is more important than who is saying it |
| "When you are but amber dust" | Even dead, she is still precious |
| "Remember still the flowering of amber blood and bone" | Repetition of "remember" Implores her to stay alive and remember life (their sexual encounters) |
| "we shall mate no more till the fire of that sun the heart and the moon-cold bone are one" | Physical love will no longer occur, until they are both joined by death, where the love from the mind endures |
| "Skeleton lying upon the sands of Time" | Skeleton (death) awaits us once our hourglass of life runs out. Represents mortality, physical love will one day end, as well as life |
| "The mourning heat of the Sun" | Passion and physical love is hot and powerful like the Sun, although it will one day end |
| "greater the gold, more powerful than the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumes" | Enjambment Love of the mind is unending and is worth more and more powerful than all living things |
| "Once I was Hercules or Samson" | He compares his former self to Hercules and Samson, heroic figures from Greek myth and the Bible, who were immensely strong and both slayers of lions but unable to defeat time. Even the strongest will one day die |
| "flames of the heart consumed me, and the mind is but a foolish wind" | Love of the heart is intense like fire Love of the heart and mind is powerful and always present (cannot be destroyed or stopped, like the wind). |
| "Said the Sun to the Moon" | Mythical lovers, destined never to be together Sitwell is saying that Love is more meaningful than physical contact |
| "That never till Time is done will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one" | Only when the universe and time itself disappear will love disappear. But time is never done Sitwell doesn't think you can have both physical love (heart) and love of the mind |
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