Emotional Analysis Of Visiting Hour By Norman Maccaaig

As Wendy Martin says “the poem leaves the reader with painful impression of a woman in her mid-fifties, who having lost her domestic comforts is left to struggle with despair. Although her loss is mitigated by the promise of the greater rewards of heaven, the experience is deeply tragic.” (75)

death, as seen in the lines, "Now dust / is her hands and dust her heart." (9-10) meaning that once you die you'll become dust. The last line of the poem, "There's never an end to it." (11) solidifies the poem with its meaning that there's a circle of life and it never ends.

The main character in this poem is an address to a lovelorn man, spoken by a seductive voice from beyond the grave to encourage him to rejoin a dead lover by taking his own life. He is told that he may find her through suicide. Although the poem might appear to display a faith in life after death, the intense desolation of his experience points, rather, to an expression of longing for death and an inability to endure more life in such grief-stricken loneliness. The poem dramatizes the conflict between his life and his lover, does he really want to go to stay with her, or not. A voice inside the man's head is coming from beyond the grave to tempt him. This voice stands for his lost love encouraging him to join her on the other side. He feels betrayed and abandoned, being left alone to face the cruel outside world. Appropriately,“Luke Havergal” reads like a revealing and realistic short story in verse, providing readers with a snapshot portrait of a lonely main

She says “yet many a man is making friends with death.” Many people don’t have somebody there to show them the right way because they still haven’t found love. The imagery helps us understand the meaning of a poem and what the author is

The speaker explains the ride she is going on with death and what she saw in her past. For example, in the third stanza, (again because it's a juicy stanza with full of signposts,) she explains that she witnessed her childhood again by identifying her past school where the children played, the fields that were filled with grain, and the setting sun that was nearby. This is important to the story because this shows that he speaker is having a flashback before her death, and everybody understands that a flashback are reminders of what happened in your past that is located within a human's

To begin with, the narrator is greatly shocked by the negative side of the world and he uses sad imagery to add depth to his song. The narrator exaggerates, “hide my head; I wanna drown my sorrow, no tomorrow, no tomorrow”. The song narrator mentions with great dispute that the immunity of the world is highly in danger due to the negativity that seeks to exist in it. The narrator uses sad and dark imagery to add depth to his song and implicate satire; there is no securing future for the world to exist in. Next, the narrator tremendously justifies that there is decline of positive sense in the world and he uses dark/sad imagery to add greater meaning to the text.

Although both poems personify death, their view of the “deaths” image, and characteristics set a boundary between the two poems, affecting their encounters within them. In “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”, “tis centuries” since her encounter with death, yet “feels shorter than the day” that she had headed towards eternity. These lines in the poem express to us that it is truly a day she will never forget, thus setting the mood of the poem: serene and comforting. With this in mind, supports the speaker’s personification of death. She describes death, not as a negative fearful being, but as a suave gentleman who attends to her wishes.

This poem is interpreted as a farewell letter to Bradstreet’s husband. She decides to write the poem considering she lies on her death bed during labor. Given that in the 16th Century death during childbirth was common, the author fears there is a chance of death. She expresses feelings of sorrow and sadness as she comes to the conclusion death is inescapable. “Fading world hath end” (1), “adversity doth still our joys attend” (2), she introduces death as inevitable and how all things come to an end; how happiness isn’t eternal. Death is coming for the speaker “How soon, my Dear, death may my steps attend,” (7). Knowing her fate the speaker writes the memoir, as adieu to her husband, her children and in a way her life on Earth. The author portrays death as a common thing, a place where all things done in this life meet.

Thus, implying that the speaker had a trepidation of death that would not allow her to embrace the idea of an end that we all know will someday come. In the poem, an image of death is presented to the reader that is peaceful and calm instead of one that is petrifying and cruel. Death is not only kind enough to stop for the speaker, he is kind enough to offer the speaker the power of reflection as they travel into the next life so that the speaker would

In the second stanza of the poem the poet presents the reader with a funeral setting. The mourners are all seated, and a service begins. The poet describes this service as being quite intense ("like a Drum (that) Kept beating—beating"). The intensity of the service causes the poet’s mind to go numb. The numbness represents the death of her mind.

In the first stanza she imagined death stopping for her. The poem also describes how she died. She was using literary devices to describe what she saw. She also used figurative language in the stanzas. Death personified as a suitor takes the speaker past a school “ We passed the school, where children at recess in the ring, we passed the fields of gazing grain, we passed the setting sun.”

In a poem called “The Last Toast” she does not back away from using a superfluous amount of repetition, giving this poem a more spoken word vibe. Repeating “To eyes, To lips, To age…” she gives us a sense of comfort in relating the contents of the poem to the title, “The Last Toast”. When we look through all of the poems shown here we find that each poem has a continuous theme, death. No matter the story line, she finds a way to incorporate the cold, reality of death.

The next three stanzas refer back to the biblical story of Lazarus. She depicts a woman with disgusting features. This goes back to the lost faith of Martha and how she exclaimed that Lazarus would have been long been decaying and death upon him even if Jesus brought him back. Then, the next two stanzas refer to the holocaust. She says “I have nine times to die” meaning the holocaust survivors, mainly referring to women, go through a lot and literally die more than once and always seem to come back stronger.

The poem by Emily Dickinson entitled the “The Last Night That She Lived” is about the death of a family member. The death was rather expected as it seems. The reason we know this is because the whole family was already gathered in order to be there when she passed. Dickinson was labeled as a dark and morbid writer in her time. In the poem “The Last Night That She Lived,” we get to experience the sadness, grief, and even spirituality of Dickinson’s feelings when dealing with her experiences of death.

As previously covered, the speaker is diving deeper and deeper into his thoughts about life. This entire poem seems to set up a