Value and wealth
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- Created on: 01-12-23 17:27
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- Value/wealth
- Hour
- “Bright as a dropped coin”
- The juxtaposition of the coin being dropped intimates a secretive or clandestine type of love.
- The simile alludes to the traditional good luck of finding a penny, implying how lucky they are to find an hour together, and the ‘wealth’ this unexpectedly grants them. This also has idiomatic connotations to the penny dropping, which could allude to the sense of realisation about the value of love above material possessions, making love comparatively more valuable.
- Coins, like rings, hold symbolic meaning of wholeness, fidelity and love, as well as wealth and comfort.
- “Midas light”
- Intertextual reference to Greek mythology of King Midas elevates the temptation of greed, but juxtaposes that the speaker recognises that their greatest happiness is provided by love, not by money or possessions.
- “Bright as a dropped coin”
- Ithaca
- “silver”/ “bronze” / “jewels” .
- Semantic field of rare and precious metals and their representation in nature reflects that, since the speaker sees their lover through nature, that the speaker is valuing the lover as highly as these valuable items.
- In terms of Greek mythology, silver has connotations of the moon, which holds symbolism of chastity, purity and femininity, as it is epitomised by Artemis
- Bronze holds symbolism of protection as it is associated with Talos, an automaton made from bronze who protected the island of Europa.
- The allusion to value and wealth epitomises the speaker’s love as priceless.
- “silver”/ “bronze” / “jewels” .
- Hour
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