The WoB question went well, we had done a question on marriage in class!
I will keep this one short, but:
- Connoted the idea that marriage is presented as a hub for the WoB to achieve sovereignty, using 195-218 as the comparison passage.
- Connoted the idea that marriage is presented as a debased concept; it is a sacred bond, but the Wife either misunderstands, or chooses to ignore this.
AO2 I mentioned:
- Dynamic verbs
- Exegesis
- Catachresis
- Metaphors
- Allusions
- Rhetorical questions
- Forceful tone
- Patronising tone (comparison passage)
Couldn't get enough of AO3, did my best to make many points relevant.
The anthology poetry? Well, this is where Beth's blog REALLY came into clutch, I compared it with Effects, wasn't quite able to finish, but this is what I got:
- Central contrast (what happens in the poem)
- Pathetic fallacy in Simmonds
- Both retain a solemn and modest tone, yet a newborn is typically positive whilst parent's death is negative
- Simmonds has an instance of anaphora and a lot of repetition; listing brought in
- Jenkins has an erratic rhyme scheme until the very end, where there are couplets
- Simmonds' poem also ends in a positive light, but less subtlely, using direct speech
- Similar in that it is one long stanza
- Embedded emjambement in Effects
- Sprinkling the central contrast throughout to show how the similar devices used put forward a different meaning
We were taught incorrectly so I was expecting to compare it to another anthology poem walking in; but even now, I have no clue what I would compare Effects or Genetics to, and I found Simmonds' poem to be okay, at least.
With that said, good luck and peace out!