Another device used is the “ABAB” rhyme scheme which is a repetition in the speaker’s voice, as if the questions are simply monotonous. Also by making almost every line a question, the reader starts to wonder if the narrator can even hear the echo voice, because if he did, maybe he would state that in the poem. Pack uses these devices to create a wall barrier between the two speakers enough that it is clear that two people are speaking, but clear enough that they cannot see each
Comparison The message of rubbish at adultery is that having an affair isn’t always the best thing, because someone will always be complaining. The poet wants us to understand that everyone should be truthful to one another. The poet also wants us to know that some people just aren’t made to be adulterers because they can’t stand feeling the guilt of knowing that they are ripping apart their family. The message of half of our love now is saying that a relationship can be ruined just like that and can never be the same as it was, but the other half of the poem is saying that even though a relationship can be ruined just like that, it can be healed over time. The language used in rubbish at adultery is very formal.
This poem seem to have three important factors within its prose: a man longing for his lover or a lover, a lover or unknown woman to the speaker, and a great distance between the two full of madness and dreaming. This is shown in the structure of the poem. The first line shows the speaker saying, “I lie here thinking of you”. The second stanza is significantly longer than the third stanza. This second stanza shows the wilting and withering of the speaker’s sanity because of his distance from the lover.
The most powerful image of the poem comes when she says; “it’s finally having a man reach out for you then caving in around his fingers” (17-20). This demonstrates wanting or needing any kind of love you can get and staying attached to it and despite abuse. In this quote the speaker not only alludes to finding someone but also domestic abuse. The narrators desire to fit in and be socially accepted comes at a price of losing her self image as well as her control. She is not comfortable in her skin and that leads to her dependence on others to fill that void.
He thinks he knows exactly what the poet is thinking. But in fact, he does not understand at all. The evidence is that he makes the poet angry at him. What the narrator sees in people around him are just their false hearts. He does not try to reach the true one which is the door to the soul.
His loneliness is a more tangible expression of his alienation problem. Loneliness is what the novel revolves around, because the novel is mostly Holden going from one place to another, doing one thing to the next to find the desired friendship and love. He constantly recoils from introspection, which was the reason why he could not figure out why he was behaving the way he was. But introspection hit home with him after he met Phoebe again when she alleges that Holden “[doesn’t] don’t like anything that’s happening” (Salinger 169). This was when Holden realized his cynicism and negative outlook on life when he struggled to think of anything or anyone that he actually liked.
Then the last two lines of is written in 3rd person, “a child”. The “child” which the narrator refers to is in fact his former self but using 3rd person shows he no longer feels like that “child”. So by structuring his poem in such way, highlights the conflict he has between his past and present and it’s also strengthened to the readers. The poet begins the poem by setting the scene. “Softly” creates a warm setting to the readers, but then with a juxtaposition of “dusk” creates a negative image which becomes a conflict to the first one.
Cheever uses a small amount of dialogue with in the story intending on the focus being on the characters actions rather than words. The blatant descriptions of Blake reveal the crudity of his character through his lack of concern for others, repeatedly cheating on his wife, and his tendency to feel superior to others. Often times the three simple words “how are you?” can be the hardest to say. Generally, the question is asked when people have not seen each other for a while and do not have much else to talk about; therefore, the question serves as a conversation filler. Though asking the question may be awkward for either person, it is a polite and courteous thing to do.
Arsat's guilt has blind their life for having a happy one. Arsat is also distraught about his life and the guilt, which is haunting him for his betrayal to his brother and to his country. At the beginning he thinks that was worth fighting and sacrificing for his lover and country, but gradually he realizes that the guilt of his betrayal would hang over him forever preventing him happiness and peace. In the other hand, what Arsat feels respect love, is just an illusion of an endless happiness and with the dead of Diamelion he ended up realizing that he is alone with the agony in his isolation. Arsat's love for Diamelen made him blind and he couldn´t think in anything else but Diamelen becoming himself in an incompletely man living in a word of illusions and fake hopes.
The poet is trying to convey his concerns about how people are losing themselves in the midst of trying to pursue what society as deemed as ‘success in life’. He uses literary techniques and vocabulary to emphasize on his points The poet conveys his concerns through the form of the poem. Throughout the poem, symbols such as ‘&’ and short forms such as ‘thru’ are used instead of the full word, which is usually used when people are so busy that they cannot afford to type properly. This signifies the poet’s purposeful intent of using these symbols to portray how the people are so caught up in their work they do not even have time to spell out full words. Enjambment is used in the poem (our slaves are not alive // & we become the sameness) making the poem seem choppy, but at the same time it flows well when read as a whole.