The phrase ‘no sleep’ is a euphemism for death and suggests that she will pay for what she has done. This is similar to Farmers Bride as he is frustrated that she will not interact with him. This is shown when he says ‘three summers since I chose a maid’; this suggests that she has been avoiding him for the past three years, which is frustrating for him. The word ‘maid’ implies that she is still a virgin, suggesting that his frustration could also be sexual In Sister Maude italics are used to emphasise her hatred for her sister Maude. This is used in the last line of the poem ‘Bide you with death and sin’; this symbolised her outrage at her sister and her hope that she will pay by going to hell after death.
The use of the word “solitary” emphasizes the chief’s sadness and loneliness over the loss that he is feeling. The chiefs “eyes that lost their lustre” (9) represents that he is not happy; therefore his eyes are lacking enthusiasm. What remains are regret, sadness, and perhaps even disgust. Johnson also uses the word “melts”, “The sky-line melts from russet into blue” (1) that creates an image of change. The melting represents the tragic slow loss of the land and chief himself.
Madison Carroll Ms. Diana AP English Literature 1 November 2012 Assignment #3 Despairing Companionship “Modern Love,” a poetic sequence by George Meredith, describes a skeptical view regarding of modern love. Meredith’s devastating tone, complex similes and metaphors, and dark imagery convey a sad and regretful outlook on modern relationships. “Modern Love” is riddled with a tone of regret and heartache, making this modern love more like the opposite of love. The speaker says, “she wept with waking eyes” and her “strange low sobs” were “strangled mute.” The words describing this woman are full of grief, full of “vain regret.” Her husband is painfully aware of his wife’s sadness, through her reaction to “his hand’s light quiver by her head” and her sobs that were “dreadfully venomous to him.” The speaker’s worried tone shows that the husband wishes for his wife to be happy, but his actions of loving care and cautiousness do nothing to quell her tears. This view of modern love is hopeless, full of despair for both the man and his distraught wife.
Compare how a characters voice is created in “My Last Duchess” and ONE other poem. The characters’ voices in “My Last Duchess” and “The River God” are created in very similar but also different ways. In both poems we can see that the characters are created as quite lonely in, “My Last Duchess” and “The River God”. The writer of “My last Duchess” uses euphemism to display his loneliness to the reader. “This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.” This quote creates a sense of loneliness to the reader seeing as the speaker is saying that “all smiles stopped” implies that the person who smiled is no longer alive but now dead.
In the poem, “My Picture”, Abraham Cowley’s figurative language and melancholy diction emphasize the pain and loss that the speaker will soon experience when his beloved leaves him. Cowley uses two significant types of figurative language - imagery and hyperbole. His diction alters depending on whether the speaker refers to himself or to his beloved. Through the use of figurative language and shifting diction, Cowley effectively captures the speaker’s mournful state of mind. The imagery and hyperbole that Cowley uses to convey the speaker’s condition the day after his loved one leaves him suggests that the speaker is incapable of living without his beloved.
The metaphors found in this poem bestow upon the reader a sense of the overdramatic; “the world drops dead” is an overstatement of the desperation she is feeling. Nothing exists but her lost love. The first line of the first stanza reads: “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead:” (1) When she closes her eyes everything in existence fades from her mind and she is no longer thinking of the many problems that exist in the world, she can only think of her former lover. This line carries throughout the poem showing the significance of emotions. The second
I will show how these two poets convey the theme of loneliness through their poems. In 'Medusa' we see a few language devices being used, "wasn't I beautiful? Wasn't I fragrant and young? Look at me now." we see a device of rhetorical question used here an this is showing how she misses her old self and that how she is comparing her self to her past and this is also used in the second poem to compare her life to how she was.
It alludes perhaps to the music played at New Orleans funerals, it reflects the “blues” that the speaker himself is experiencing over this sudden and painful loss, and it references the poem itself, the expression of sadness through words, meter and rhyme. As a whole, the poem pays tribute to an individual who was the center of the speaker’s affection and conveys the emotional devastation of loss and the disillusionment with life that often accompanies it. To the ones associated with the dead person, time had come to a standstill. All communication had been cut off, and therefore the telephone, a metaphor of contact and communication has to be cut off. The dog barking with a juicy bone is silenced as instinct no longer reigns.
At the same way she confirms her anguish “Please let me know beforehand/And I will come out to meet you/ As far as Cho-Fu-Sa” (Pound, lines 27-29). The Merchant’s Wife depicts herself as a sad person due to her husband’s work. Nature plays an important row in her sorrowful letter. Despite of her strong appearance, she feels weak because her image of nature demonstrates her sadness of the husband’s journey. Work Cited Pound, Ezra.
Paper Summary: In W. H. Auden's poem, "Funeral Blues," the speaker uses well-constructed poetic language and form to convey her attitude toward the subject of death. It explains how Auden manifests an extremely bitter interpretation of hopelessness and eternal sadness on the part of the speaker as a result of losing a loved one. The speaker in the poem is deeply saddened about the loss of her loved one and the fact that it was a force beyond her control. This person has been taken from her life in haste at a most inopportune time, and she feels as though her life has become pointless. It shows how, through Auden's use of tone, language, and structure, he portrays a very well-defined image of death and its effects on the individual, which is by no means desirable.