Life After Death (AQA A-Level English Literature A): Flashcards
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Position of 'Life After Death' in Birthday Letters
Position of 'Life After Death' in Birthday Letters
Second-to-last poem
Month & year of Sylvia Plath's suicide
Month & year of Sylvia Plath's suicide
February 1963
Form & stanza type of 'Life After Death'
Form & stanza type of 'Life After Death'
Free verse using tercets (three-line stanzas)
What wolves symbolize in the poem
What wolves symbolize in the poem
Primal mourning or Plath's lingering spirit
Technique: Hughes repeatedly addresses 'you' (Plath)
Technique: Hughes repeatedly addresses 'you' (Plath)
Direct address
Structure dividing the family's trauma
Structure dividing the family's trauma
Day and night division
Metaphor for Hughes' helplessness & guilt
Metaphor for Hughes' helplessness & guilt
Hanged man strung up in high chair
Purpose of enjambment throughout poem
Purpose of enjambment throughout poem
Prevents closure; grief can't be neatly resolved
'In our separate cots' symbolizes
'In our separate cots' symbolizes
Isolation from each other & regression to childlike state
Sound technique in 'cold February' & 'numb snow'
Sound technique in 'cold February' & 'numb snow'
Assonance (long vowels evoke chill numbness)