Anne Hathaway
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- Created by: maryhannahlynch19
- Created on: 10-04-17 12:03
THEMES
Timeless/great love, sensual/physical/****** love, power of literature/writing/imagination, death/grief/remembrance.
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STYLE
Modern/not Elizabethan language, metaphors.
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STRUCTURE
Enjambment, 14 line structure associated with love poetry, sonnet and three quatrains and a couplet Iambic pentameter used in Shakespeare's writing, embedded rhymes, dramatic monologue, spoken by Anne Hathaway.
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Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed...
Extract from Shakespeare's will which critics use to say that he didn't love Anne, but Duffy uses this to introduce the poem which says that he gave her that bed as it was their marital bed.
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The bed we loved in was a spinning world /of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas
The reader is transported to a magical landscape with this metaphor which shows that Shakespeare was able to take them away to another world on their bed, like he could in his writing.
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we loved in
Shakespeare gave Anne the second best bed because that is what it meant to them.
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spinning world
Their love and passion was so strong that it made Anne dizzy.
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world
Their love was the centre of her life .
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we loved - he would
Past tense to show that he is dead.
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dive for pearls
Both pearls and their love was precious and something which they had to fully immerse themselves for.
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My lover's words were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses.
Metaphor shows that Shakespeare's poetry and his love for Anne were intertwined. Enjambment makes the lines flow into each other which implies a deep and intricate relationship. Assonance creates a sensual tone. Stars and kisses are beautiful.
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my body now a softer rhyme /to his
Anne's body is more feminine compared to Shakespeare's harder, more masculine body.
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rhyme - echo - assonance - verb - noun
Anne's word choice is writing focused because Shakespeare's love making is similar to his poetry so Anne links the poetic vocabulary to the body. Both sex and writing involves these things.
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echo - assonance
As the man Shakespeare takes the more dominant role in their intimacy yet they work together.
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a verb dancing in the centre of a noun
The verb is active and the noun is passive. He is touching her. "Dancing" has connotations of joy which shows how they delight in each other. The comparison elevates their ********** to something poetic.
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Some nights, I dreamed he's written me, the bed
Anne imagines that like a character in a play she only feels truly alive when she regards herself through his imagination. "The bed" refers to the opening lines and reinforces the idea that the bed represents their love.
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...the bed /a page beneath his writer's hands.
The enjambment extends the metaphor that she felt as if she was his character which means she felt alive near him. Anne is the writing, the bed is the page.
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Romance /and drama
"Romance" is isolated at the end of the line to show that it is what Anne most associates with their love. Shakespeare wrote both drama and romance. Anne thinks that the plots for his plays were inspired by their **********.
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by touch, by scent, by taste
The senses are used to show that Anne vividly remembers the ********** and to allow her to immerse herself in their passion after he is gone. She gets to experience Shakespeare as a man, other people only see his writing.
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the other bed, the best,
The parenthisis highlights that although it was the best bed, it was not an insult of Shakespeare not to give it to her as she has the marital bed.
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our guests dozed on /dribbling their prose.
Guests experience in bed contrasts with hers as their time isn't as adventurous. "Dribbling" implies a boring, everyday style of writing which shows that their time in bed isn't as exciting. "Dozed" implies their sex life is worse than Anne's.
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My living laughing love-
Shows he still exists in her memory as she can vividly remember him. Alliteration slows the reader down and allows the words to dance across the page. The dash creates a pause which give the reader time to reflect on this before the ending.
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I hold him in the casket of my widow's head /as he held me upon that next best bed.
The final couplet has the masculine rhyme "head" and "bed" which gives the poem a definitive ending and pays respect to Shakespeare. Anne's mind can capture his energy, a real casket can't. The bed is a symbol of her enduring love for him.
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Card 2
Front
Modern/not Elizabethan language, metaphors.
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STYLE
Card 3
Front
Enjambment, 14 line structure associated with love poetry, sonnet and three quatrains and a couplet Iambic pentameter used in Shakespeare's writing, embedded rhymes, dramatic monologue, spoken by Anne Hathaway.
Back
Card 4
Front
Extract from Shakespeare's will which critics use to say that he didn't love Anne, but Duffy uses this to introduce the poem which says that he gave her that bed as it was their marital bed.
Back
Card 5
Front
The reader is transported to a magical landscape with this metaphor which shows that Shakespeare was able to take them away to another world on their bed, like he could in his writing.
Back
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