Streetcar Named Desire: Key Narrative Moments + 1st impressions:

Top 10 Most Memorable Moments:

• Blanche's arrival.
• Poker night.
• Stanley hitting Stella.
• Blanche's date with Mitch.
• Stanley throwing the package of meat at Stella at the beginning.
• Stanley finding out the truth about Blanche.
• Mitch trying to rape Blanche.
• Stanley raping Blanche. 
• Blanche loosing her grip on reality and getting sent to an asylum

1st Impressions: 

-Stanley is an instantly striking character, his violence builds up throughout the play; beginning foreshadows his future violence.

-Our attitudes to the characters change, this character development is evident when Mitch tries to rape Blanche - he becomes more like Stanley as opposed to the gentle opposite he was throughout.

-Stanley equates Blanche's past to being a prostitute as she survived from the profits of her relationships.

-Every part is tense.

-Blanche looses Belle Reve, comes from family of wealth and property. 

-When Stanley finds this out, the audience gets some backstory.

-Blanche's ex-husband was gay, she tells him he's 'disgusting' and he kills himself, she blames herself.

Christina Rossetti: #9: 'Up-Hill'

- Title: can mean the journey from birth to death to the afterlife, or an analogy for life's progression, or it could convey a spiritual journey. Can either be a struggle or up-lifting spiritual enlightenment.
-ABAB rhyme structure
- very structured
-Lots of rhetorical questions, one sided conversation - one question then one answer etc.
- Interrogative tone
- Rossetti worked with the poor so understood life's struggle, represented in this.
- Weary tone, showing length of the journey.
- 'road' 'journey' show journey, common metaphor for life.
- 2 characters: - 1: attitudes: concerned, seeking reassurance.
                        - 2: attitudes: reassuring, kind, comforting, self-assured, all knowing. Feels like the voice of religion or faith.
- 'Inn' security, could be analogy for religious faith or love and protection, Rossetti did have this love but rejected it.
- 'Those who have gone before' people who've died, the idea of being reunited with lost love/people. Reassuring, spiritual tone.
- Different to most of her poems, simple lexical choices; could imitate the narrator's confusion. Also represents a realistic speaking voice.
-Typical, obvious imagery.

Essay Tips: Linking Form To Effect

LINKING FORM TO EFFECT:

FORM:

-How the writer writes.

-How the reader may respond, reasons behind why the poet wrote this way.

-Term of address - refers to something.

-Firstly address form, then use synonyms then effect this = ANALYSIS.

KEY WORDS FOR LINKING:

-Highlights

-Foregrounds

-Draws attention to

-Suggests

-Emphasises

-Implies

-Conveys

-Portrays

-Instills X emotion