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Meaning: A lover preserves a moment in time with his beloved by strangling her Intention: To shock the "numbed" Victorian reader into questioning: 1. contemporary preoccupation with illicit sex out of wedlock and 2. which is worse, violence or sex Tone: Measured madness - ababb rhyme scheme - "the intensity and asymmetry of the pattern suggests the madness concealed within the speaker’s reasoned self-presentation" Style: Dark Romanticism. Gothic even http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/how-to-read-poem/how-to-read.html Death table analysis: Framework: Victorian prudishness Approach: Stylistic (content) analysis Lexical: (words) The speaker of the poem is articulate and unapologetic. He insists, "No pain felt she; /I am quite sure she felt no pain." - in plain language, mimicking natural speech, but as with his other dramatic monologues as psychological portraits, each metaphor requires close attention, as it portrays the subtleties in th...

Waves suggest that there were academic movements that began and ended, which is only an epistemological approach to feminism We look at these theorists: Virginia Woolf (the abject, bisexual writing and deconstructing sexual difference), Simone de Bouvoir, Judith Butler (androgynous writing, the present continuum) and Marcel Proust (the narrator's gender is unknown) (also Freud, with the homopsychologicus and homophilosophicus) Interpellation, identity, subjectivity are concepts tied with theoretical movements trying to bring back focus to individuals Virginia Woolf brought focus back to women themselves- the feminine continuum, feminine tradition, alternate forms & rhythms, a journey backwards rather than forward (going back to the mothers, back to Lesbos), breaking the chronological way of understanding progress/modernity (which she saw as the patriarchal method of understanding history as linear). She studied at Oxford. a continuous present wrt time/space/writing ...