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Rooms by Charlotte Mew - Coggle Diagram
Rooms by Charlotte Mew
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Key language devices
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Negative tone - “the steady slowing down” - toward death -> lack of excitement ‘D’ consonance - “the steady slowing down”- weighted
Symbolism - "Paris" and "Geneva", two cities symbolise different telationships that the main character goes through, "Paris", symboises a young and romantic relationship meanwhile "Geneva" shows a more business and work-orientated environment
Repetition of "we" shows they are now "united in death" after so long being apart or separated by diseases
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Key structural devices
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an irregular rhyme scheme represents the different twists and turns that life takes and that nothing is absolutely un changeable
Shifts in tone
1st shift when the authour goes from talking about beautiful rooms to a "little damp room with a seaweed smell" - this shift creates a bitter and claustrophobic feel for the relationship in comparison to the previous ones described
2nd shift when the author adds another person into the poem, it goes from describing rooms as a symbol of her relationships to talkink about her sister, this change in tone makes more effective the idea that she is fed up, tired and wants to lie down in her grave
Deeper meaning
The rooms convey different memories about her romances, they all seem to end in a sad tone and she appears hopeless as she is turned down various times. Finality is shown when the rain and sun is mentioned ad these 2 together create a rainbow and this creates positive imagery, when she dies she is happier as she is 'with her sister'