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Cried Madder Movement Ernest Dowson Sum Qualis Explore4

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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine;
Back •self-destructive impulse when struggling to cope with loss "I cried for madder music" => high volume + fast pace to contrast his slow, vapid life without her 
•excessive emotion and behaviour in reaction to discontent and lost love - wine/promuscuity/nocturnal lifestyle "lamps expire" + "feast is finished" famine 
•fricatives 'feast is finished' and alliterative 'madder music' creates sense of airy energy of free movement as he enters in a dance of death towards the end of the poem + relate to indulgence context
•unhealthy alcoholism typical of Decadent Movement used to obliterate his discomfort

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