Corrina Metaphors

Firstly, the speaker’s attitude or the tone demonstrates how a person can be the cause of their own misery. From the very start of the poem the speaker has a depressing tone. Any little event that occurs the speaker reads it as a negative occurrence that adds to his ever growing misery. For Example, when the speaker says “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” The speaker hears a knock on the door and opens it to see that there is no one there. Instead of going back to sleep he demonstrates his negative attitude by

You really feel a sense of hopelessness then in line eight of stanza two you see your first word that has some kind of hope to it which is the word lightness. Once you go to stanzas three and four you see a shift from once hopelessness to maybe there is hope in the mist of darkness. Also, another thing that the poet does is how in some lines there is an extra spacing between certain words, I think by him doing that he wants the reader to really focus on this words because if you notice the spaces are in between words that are simple and could be overlooked so by putting the extra spaces it will make the reader notice it more. For me the turn(volta) it’s happening in line eight line “As how its lightness after was a gift”, like a said before this line is the start of a different word tone compared to what was said before that line and also what is said after. This line does a good job at showing this next start of life like for example it says in line eleven “ I couldn’t while they watch me set it

In each of the poems, “Thanatopsis”, “Dust in the Wind” and “Don’t Fear the Reaper” they are mostly meaning death. The main point each poem is making is to live life to it’s fullest and not to fear death.

The speaker believes that love is hard to come by and that he is sad that he may not encounter it, since death is just around the corner. The speaker then also talks of “unreflecting love,” thus depicting that the speaker has never experienced real love and is unlikely to ever experience it, because he is so worried about death’s fast approach. However, at the end of “When I have Fears,” the speaker reflects that his goals for literary prowess and love are “nothingness” in comparison to the grand scope of things. There is hope after death, and Keats’ narrator finds solace in this. Although he has not achieved everything he had wanted, the speaker is still appreciative of what he was able to do. On the other hand, Longfellow’s speaker in “Mezzo Cammin” takes on a much more sorrowful and negative tone. Using diction of “half of my life,” “years slip,” and “not fulfilled,” Longellow shows that the speaker is really dreading and mourning his day to go. It seems that the speaker’s fear of death completely and irresolutely hinders him from accomplishing any of his goals. He is too busy being pessimistic about his life that he is unable to live in the present. He is also unable to dream into the future. Unlike Keats’ speaker, Longfellow’s speaker is completely stunted in from any possible growth. He is too stuck in the Past and its images of “smoking roof, soft bells, and gleaming lights.” This hazy

The sense throughout the entire poem is that the speaker is nervous about embarking on a new journey in their life. Something encapsulated perfectly when the speaker says “this is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself” (24). The irony here is that many children dream of becoming older from the time they can talk. Hell, maybe even before that. They see a distorted view of freedom in adulthood and oppression in childhood. This speaker’s view of blossoming out of childhood, however, is bleak and contrast with what most children want. Maybe the speaker is scared of getting closer to going to high school, having to leave certain things or people behind or, maybe they just fear change in general. The poem does not hand the correct interpretation to the reader and leaves it up for interpretation, something that makes the poem more powerful by allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions as to why the speaker is apprehensive about reaching their new milestone. Thus rings the bell, calling for a pause of reading and the start of thinking. This openness leaves different readers with different backgrounds, different experiences and different personalities to all read differently into what the speaker fears about growing up. A reader who grew up affluent may attribute this concern as a normal progression of feelings which starts as fear but grows into excitement due to having new experiences to enjoy. A reader who grew up poor may think the speaker realizes they will have to make tough decisions to survive and that the best years of their life are behind them. This openness of having different people read differently into the speaker’s irony is why a thirty-two-line poem leads to an infinite amount of interpretations. As well as being used for humour, irony is also used to highlight certain expectations of growing

The tone Gray builds throughout the poem is one of darkness.  Since there is no direct action and plot during the course of the text, the tone it bears is generally passive, although it changes towards the end.  The tone is characterized by the pessimistic and dark foreshadowing that echoes throughout the poem.  Reappearing reference to war and the brutality of battle further aid the development of the gloomy tone.  As the poem progresses, the tone changes.  This becomes evident in the last three stanzas, when the loom is finished and “the work is done”.  After the achievement of this task the mellow tone shifts towards excitement and motivation. Stanza 14 shows this change in tone utilizing two back to back exclamations or demands that hastily call for immediate action to spread the fate.

The fourth refrain creates a negative possibility that nothing will change and it will remain one-sided unless the speaker wanted to take action. It goes from asking will it change to “Must is be forever dark?” / Must your random love / Only leave me desiring more?” (25-27). In the final refrain in the poem the speaker goes on to start from the beginning and questions the situation by asking “Why is it forever dark?”(38), this line makes it seem as though the speaker knows that there is no point in trying anymore, however, is still hopeful for a good ending.

There are two main tones in this story, a happy one and a gloomy one. These both tones come together in the poem to create the theme of desires and significance in life. The poem first begins with a happy tone. The old man in the story is happy and welcomes/accepts his chances of dying. This is shown by him saying things like he is ready for heaven and is finally done with picking apples. In line eight he says, "I am dosing off," he is indicating that he has finished everything planned and is ready for his judgment. I believe that this tone sets up the theme of desires and the significance in life, but does not necessarily complete it. As we keep reading through the poem, it starts to introduce a sad mood. He starts accepting his fate when

Throughout the poem, Allen uses an elegiac tone which is a tone of mourning. From the very first line, the reader is prepared for what will follow in the subsequent lines and stanzas. In the first line, Allen says he is outraged, and that is why is crying out to the world to stop the destruction of a generation. In general, Allen is crying about the oppression and subjugation in the society. The speaker in the poem appears to be smart. The speaker’s words do not come out in a proper order which makes the reader imagine that he was from a long sleep and he has been awakened by the reality of things and he wants us to join him through his lane and tell us what he saw. The speaker does not use proper English, and there is a lot of syntax in the verses which help the reader in understanding that the person speaking is drugged or has some mental illness. For Allen, he embodies the mental illness of his friend he is dedicating the poem too in a mental

When Whittier wrote this poem, he was 71. In other words, he was in the “eventide” of his life. A time where he is close to death and has found balance in his life. So, the first sentence could be seen as Whittier (or the narrator) realizing that when life is coming to an end, people need not think of the “poor and inadequate…shadow-play/ of gain and loss, of waking and of dream” (2-3). Instead, people must notice the goodness in life.

“When I Have Fears” by John Keats has a miserable tone as the speaker expresses his thoughts about his death. From the first two lines, the speaker introduces his fear of his ending. He says, “When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain” (Keats 1-2). It may be assumed that the speaker is the poet from these lines, since the word “pen” is associated with writing and expression. Keats describes other activities and desires that he will not be able to do or have because of his death that he believes he will encounter soon. He speaks about his yearnings and love in a way that seems as if he is already dying, or being deprived of his wants. This constructs the miserable tone. For example, “That I shall never look upon thee more, /

The poem ultimately ends with disappointment, with the line “Each year I hoped they’d keep, knew that they would not.” This helps tie the overall theme that nothing truly stays the same, that everything ends, including

From what I understood about this poem the speaker wishes that there was more time to love and appreciate his love interest. The theme I picked up was racing against time and seizing the day because throughout the poem he mentions time being this intangible object interfering with his infatuation with his lover. In the first stanza the author uses deep symbolism that upon further inspection describes his mentality, he compares coyness to a crime because there is not enough time to be shy, humans are limited to their short tie on earth. Other symbols include the speaker referencing the great flood and Noah ark, the end times and time’s winged chariot. I really liked this poem because of its complexity and use of symbols, it’s a tough read and

This can already be detected in the first five lines: They set the stage for the rest of the poem by creating a dark and dreadful atmosphere caused by the rain (line 1) and the wind (line 2). The latter can also be ‘felt’ by the reader by means of the accumulation of fricative sounds in the first two lines (i.e. an alliteration of /s/ in “set”, “sullen”, “soon”). Line 5 again emphasizes the negative tone with the “heart fit to break”. As already mentioned above, line 6 represents a sudden reversal, stressed by the inversion of the sentence: Porphyria enters the cottage, lights the fire (line 8f) and substitutes warmth (line 9) for its antithetical opposite, namely the cold (line

In the first few lines of the poem, the writing shows how many people fear death, but then shows how in reality, death has no power over them. The writer then goes on to write how it does not matter if he dies because afterward he will go to a place much better, and here the author refers to the hope for the future in reference to heaven. After that, death get call a slave because he is only ever included with evil thoughts and unfriendly people. This again demonstrates why people should not the fear death because he has no control over anybody and his only power it to kill which means nothing. Finally, the poem displays another times, how after death complies with his job, then he actually dies and the people he killed get to live forever in heaven, showing again how he has no power and how hope can be found in