Sweet Revenge - The English Department
Sweet revenge!
Stanza I
• Who is the speaker and what is she doing?
• Where is she and who is she ‘talking’ to?
• Why might the last line come as a shock to us?
• What does the last line tell us about the victim of the poison?
Stanza II
• What do we learn in this stanza about the speaker’s motive?
• What do the couple believe she is doing whilst she is in the laboratory?
Stanza III
• What is she doing in this stanza?
• How is her excitement and enjoyment suggested?
Stanza IV
• What do her questions suggest about her state of mind?
• What contrast does she notice in the substances?
Stanza V
• What does she wish for in this stanza?
Stanza VI
• What examples of her imagined power does she give in this stanza?
Stanza VII
• What is she unhappy about in Stanza VII?
Stanza VIII
• What do we learn about her rival in this stanza?
• Why is the speaker worried about the power of the poison?
Stanza IX
• What does the speaker say she tried to do the night before?
Stanza X
• How will the poison also be punishment for her ex-lover?
• How does the poet create a sense of violence in the words of this stanza?
Stanza XI
• Why does she remove her mask in this stanza?
• What is she willing to give for this one drop of poison?
Stanza XII
• How would you describe the speaker’s mood in this stanza?
• Where is she returning to and to do what?
• She allows the old man a kiss – how might a Victorian audience have reacted to this behaviour?
The whole poem
• How would you describe the poem’s rhythm and rhyme? What effect does this have on the overall tone of the poem?
• Browning takes pleasurable things and turns them upside down. What examples are there of this?
• What is the key emotion presented in the poem?
• What possible interpretations are there of the narrator’s character? Which do you tend to agree with?
• Do you think this poem is meant to be serious/comic/entertaining?
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