Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The poem ‘’Grief’’ is told from the perspective of a first person subjective narrator. This is suggested by the way in which the poem starts, the first line being ‘’I tell you’’. This creates a personal poem and transmits the idea that the narrator is writing about her own personal feelings which she communicates with the reader.
Form and Meter
The poem ‘’Love’’ is written in an iambic pentameter.
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem ‘’Only a Curl’’, the major metaphor used is that of the curl. In this context, the curl represents the way a person can remember a loved one even when they are away from one another.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find an alliteration in the poem ‘’A Lady’s Yes’’ in the line ‘’ Fit for Yes or fit for No !’’. Through this alliteration, the narrator wants to transmit the idea that a person may at times change his or her mind quickly and that we must accept this change. The alliteration also has the purpose of making the reader aware of these changes, as to prepare the reader for them.
Irony
An irony appears in the poem ‘’The Cry of the Children’’ when an adult tries to comfort the children about death by telling them that they should not worry about graves because they are only for old people. The children point out that ironically, this is not true, as many children die in their youth and end up being buried alongside their adult counterparts.
Genre
The poem ‘’The Lady’s Yes’’ is a meditative poem in which the narrator looks at the reasons why a woman may change her mind about a possible or a current partner and how the men can prevent this from happening.
Setting
The action in the poem ‘’A Musical Instrument’’ takes place near a lake and also inside a boat in the lake. The time however is not mentioned but because the God Pan is the main character we can assume that the action takes place in a distance past.
Tone
The tone in the poem ‘’A Man’s Requirements’’ is a condescending one, thus proving that the things men ask from women are more than often not reasonable and not on the same level with the things men demand from women.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist in the poem ‘’Mother and the Poet’’ is the mother and the antagonist is death which took her children away from her.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in the poem ‘’A Musical Instrument’’ is between art and the destruction an artist does in order to create art.
Climax
The poem ‘’Love’’ reaches its climax when the man and the woman in the woman fall in love with one another and thus their life starts revolving around love.
Foreshadowing
In the beginning of the poem ‘’A Musical Instrument’’, the narrator mentions the damages done by the God Pan. This foreshadows the damage done by music, damage explained later in the poem.
Understatement
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Allusions
In the poem ‘’A Lady’s Yes’’, the narrator analyzes the different reasons for which a woman may change her mind and her answer when it comes to marriage. The reason why a woman may change her opinion is because she sometimes sees the truth about the man she chose and thus she no longer wants to be with him. This statement makes men responsible as it transmits the idea that men have to make changes in their lives as well if they want to have faithful wives or the prospect of finding a wife.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term ‘’feet’’ is used in the poem ‘’The Cry of the Children’’ as a general term to make reference to the power possessed by children. Because the children claim their feet are weak, this suggests their lack of power, both physical and mental.
Personification
We find a personification in the poem ‘’Only a Curl’’ in the line ‘’weak tears of relief’’.
Hyperbole
We find a hyperbole in the lines ‘’ And the babe cries ! — has each of us known /By apocalypse’’ in the poem ‘’Only a Curl’’.
Onomatopoeia
We find an onomatopoeia in the poem ‘’Grief’’ in the line ‘’ in loud access /Of shrieking and reproach.’’