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.
His poor treatment there is more shocking because he has been drawn as a character who had, “worked hard” and ”owed nothing to any man.” Mrs Edwards, the daughter, is confused at first by the nun’s reaction to seeing her. When the nun asks, “Is your father lighter or darker than you?” she begins to realize that he will not be admitted there. The nun sends them away and delivers the platitude, “God bless you dear”. Mrs Edwards replies “and God pity you sister”. Her father dies at home, and she has endured the agony of watching him die.
The poem, “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” shows how much Bradstreet misses her husband. She is sad while he is away. “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” states: I, like the Earth this season, mourn in black, My Sun is gone so far in's zodiac, Whom whilst I 'joyed, nor storms, nor frost I felt, His warmth such frigid colds did cause to melt. My chilled limbs now numbed lie
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
In the novel the main character, Harry Hodby and his father, Mr. Hodby have both lost someone close to them. Because of this, they can both understand how love can endure beyond the grave. Harry lost his close friend Linda in a dreadful flood. This was devastating for Harry, he loved Linda a lot and as mentioned in poem The Flood, he often goes to Pearce Swamp “…to remember Linda/ and the day of the flood…” Harry also lost his mother, Mr. Hodby’s wife. On Sundays, they go to visit her grave.
Hamlet, Text commentary: “O that this too too solid flesh would met” (1.2.129) – “But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue” (1.2.159) This extract takes place after the conversation between Hamlet, Gertrude and Claudius about Hamlet’s too long mourning. In this excerpt, which is the very first soliloquy uttered by Prince Hamlet, there is a tension between the world of the living and the one of the dead. Actually, Hamlet is deeply affected by the death of his father (the world of the dead) and the recent wedding of his mother with his uncle Claudius (the world of the living). He is torn up between sadness and disgust. His only solution to escape sadness is to leave the living to join the world of the dead but at this moment of the play, Hamlet his not able to take this decision yet.
The poem “Waiting for Icarus”, by Muriel Rukeyser, is written from the point of view of a woman that was in love with Icarus, and mourns his death. This is an interesting point of view on the myth because nothing was really known of a woman in Icarus’ life, and this somehow makes his death all the more tragic. When the poem begins, it is not yet known who the narrator is, which adds a sense of mystery to the poem. It begins with a list of everything Icarus had said to this person, promises they made, things they would do together, and things they have done together. The repetition of “He said” before every sentence shows that this was something the narrator had been thinking about for a while and kept repeating inside her head.
Maria Portillo January 14, 2013 A.P English Literature – Period 4 Modern Love by George Meredith In the poem, Modern Love by George Meredith, it defines the feelings about a husband and a wife, who both had suffered in a loveless marriage. Meredith uses literary devices to convey the view of “modern love”; he uses alliteration, metaphor, and imagery throughout the poem. Meredith uses alliteration in the first line of the poem, “she wept with walking eyes (line1).” Since the beginning of the poem the readers could notice that the wife was already unhappy, since she had cried, probably for unhappy marriage. He also writes, “were called into her with a sharp surprised (line 4)”, meaning that she wanted to escape the marriage but couldn’t, and that the time that is poem was written it referred to the marriage in the 19th century. Which both the wives and husbands were forced to marry, without loving each other.
There's racial discrimination toward them, Sanaubar leaving, Hassan's harelip, and the soldiers' taunting of Hassan. We soon learn, however, that Amir has anything but a charmed existence. Amir's mother died giving birth to him. It's clear he feels a great lack in his life, and he throws himself into poetry and writing, we think, partly as a tribute to her. In addition, Amir feels an enormous amount of responsibility for his mother's death – as if he not only caused it but, more sinisterly, was responsible for it.
Sylvia Plath’s ‘Morning Song’ is one of the constituent poems of her final anthology ‘Ariel’ written before she committed suicide. The collection was composed in a seemingly manic surge coinciding with a period of anguish and rage concerning her traumatic impending divorce with her British husband and poet Ted Hughes. He left for another woman, leaving Sylvia with their two children. In her rather short poem ‘Morning Song’ Plath employs many poignant images to convey a disconcerted ambience of disillusionment concerning her maternal experience. The poem may be referred to as a confessional poem in the sense that it emphasises visceral and intimate emotions and personal details of Sylvia Plath’s life in a seemingly unflattering manner.