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She was a Phantom of Delight vs. For My Grandmother Knitting (For My…
She was a Phantom of Delight vs.
For My Grandmother Knitting
She Was a Phantom of Delight
Voice
From the Poets POV, distant
"She was a phantom"
Unreal/ spiritual
Moves closer, POV changes with time
Links to Time
Poet comes closer to the phantom throughout the poem "Nearer View"
"And now I see"
Theme
First meeting then getting to know his wife
LOVE
Imagination/ perfection
Towards the beginning of the poem, but then more flaws are shown later on, and her loves her more for it.
Liminality
Half way state- getting to know her
"Praise, blame tears and smiles"- Antithesis
Compares her to nature "Dawn" "Dusk"
Structure
Stanza 1
Fantasy
Stanza 2
Reality
"Tears, smiles"
"Daily food"
He sees her as a real person now.
Images of Death- Mortal but beauty
Practical list of qualities
"The reason, firm, temperate, will, endurance, foresight, strength and skill"
Rhyming couplets
"Breath"/ "Death"
For My Grandmother Knitting
Voice
Second Person
Uses flashbacks to go to the Grandmother's more relevant younger life
Theme/ topic
About the Grandmother becoming useless.
Imagery
THERE IS NO IMAGERY!!!!!
GASP!!!!
Well, not conventional imagery at least.
Repetition
Hands
Links to the day to day, monotonous mundane life she leads
Need/ needles.
necessary
Structure
Only punctuation at the end of a stanza
Continuous
A poem of utility very piratical, no description of the grandmother herself. Contrast to Phantom of delight
Sudden flash backs.
Creates contrast