| Front | Ernest Dowson - Non Sum Qualis... Explore4: x4 Large 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; |
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| 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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