What does puce curses mean

It's enough to make Shmoop wish we had Duffy around to pack our suitcase for our next trip. Lines Some nights better, the lost body over me, my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear then down till I suddenly bite awake. Love's Here things in the poem start to change a bit. Before, Miss Havisham was incredibly bitter and angry. Now things seem to change; she tells us that some of her nights are better. What we love about the first half of line 10 is how sparse it is. She could have said, "There are some nights that are better.

She says something much shorter, as if she can't quite find the energy to form a complete thought. And why, exactly, are her nights better? She mentions sticking her tongue in "its mouth" and "its ear," as opposed to "his mouth" and "his ear.

And then, after the ear and mouth, she heads downward, and, well, you get the idea. Too much information, Miss H! But this fantasy ends quickly, and Miss Havisham bites herself awake. Does she bite the imaginary body? Does she bite her own tongue as she awakens?

Or has something bitten her? It's ambiguous, and though it's a sensual gesture, it's not exactly a happy follow up to the kissing, that's for sure. The fabric is in puce brick, with little decoration. Puce curses that are sounds not words. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

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Even here though the strength of her hatred continues to permeate and sour all of her most pleasant memories. The deliberate choice not to use pronouns for her lover — instead of his she uses the and its creates a sense of distance from him, while simultaneously depriving him of his humanity, and therefore makes it easier for her to continue to hate him.

The stanza concludes with the violent interruption of her dreams: till I suddenly bite awake.