Created by Brianna McCarthy
over 8 years ago
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Question | Answer |
On Anticipation | - Uses emotive language in the imagery of winter London: dampness, death, forbidding, sadness - interrupted by travel brochure, “Winter Sun”, - imagery of the imagined landscape: “relief, sweet, turquoise, I imagined there to be waterfalls.” - Demonstrates power of anticipation in contrast between bleak imagery and the pleasant sensory language |
Happiness/ why to travel | “Our lives are dominated by a search for happiness” “We are inundated with advice on where to travel to; we hear little on why and how we should go.” |
Fulfullment | ” A Rebours” by Huysman: anticipates an imagined London, constructed by Dickens. In central Paris, on way to London, fulfils his thirst for the imagined London. Decides to return home: “How wearing it woud be actually to go to London… a person could travel so wonderfully sitting in a chair.” |
DB in Barbados | When DB arrives in Barbados, after two months anticipation, “Nothing was as I imagined” |
Thought | Journeys are the midwives of thought |
On the exotic | "I stopped by a red front door and felt an intense longing to spend the rest of my life there." |
Furniture | The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not |
Mountains | See how small you are next to the mountains... |
Hospital | Life is a hospital in which every patient is obsessed with changing beds |
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