Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Poems Symbols, Allegory and Motifs

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Poems Symbols, Allegory and Motifs

The little farm

The poem "Constantinople" begins with the narrator asking God to give him what he names a "little farm", a place where he could feel safe and at peace. The "little farm" is used in the poem as a symbol by the narrator, used to refer to the feeling of safety provided by believing in God or in a higher power.

Champagne

In "Epilogue to the Tragedy of Cato", the narrator presents a group of women which are portrayed as being extremely easy and with a questionable character. Before the narrator describes those women as being easy, they are described as drinking champagne. The type of drink they are consuming are used here as a symbol to suggest the women's easy nature and their promiscuous nature.

The mule

The main symbol used in "Fragment To ******" is the mule mentioned in the first line. The mule is used in the poem as a symbol to suggest the type of people who do not have any form of intellectual inclination and who cannot be trusted and care for nothing else but their own good.

The toilet

The toilet is the place whee the action in the poem "Friday, The Toilette" takes place and it centers around a woman's morning routine. The toilet, or rather the room where the woman washes herself, gets dressed and where she puts on the persona she will show the rest of the world. The toilet is used in this poem as a symbol to suggest the woman's inner feelings and her true personality.

The breast

The singing which the women in the poem "Impromptu, To a Young Lady Singing" get involved in affect the rest of the people in the poem, especially their "breast". This causes the people affected by this to behave in an extremely strange way. The breast is used in this context as a symbol to suggest the way in which a certain event or person can affect our feelings and emotions.

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