Loss in Hardy's The Convergence of the Twain and Kipling's Harp Song of the Dane Women

The first stanza begins with a strong statement: "Abortions will not let you forget." It shows the sorrow

In the first stanza, the writer uses many techniques to convey the feeling of loss, when he says,

without warning”. Then in the third stanza, where he illuminates the allure of letting go of

Stanza 3- That morning both roads were equal- no one has walked on either path that morning. He will take the second one and save the first for another day even though he knows life will get busy and he won’t return.

Both of the ways Countee uses his diction and tone plays a significant part in the theme of both of the poem.

Readers are aware of this ambiguity. Here the heaviest flashback thoughts and the short-lasting issue set up a continuing contrast throughout the poem, which enchants its effect.

In stanza two, ambiguity is more prevalent. Although there are some elements of abstruse, Ammons uses specific words in repetition to create a degree of complexity for the poem. Ammons uses words such as “summary”, “deeper”, “longer”, and “length” to convey the point. I question why Ammons used these words, in particular, “summary” and “deeper” because the overall second stanza conveys a message of an idea or item of great importance. “Summary” and “deeper” contradicts that message because both words contrast each other. Summary generally means a short version on main points of an idea or event while deeper is a term people use to compare two objects or items. Although Ammons does not in any

The poem progresses from mourning of the deceased to praising of his achievements and fate to die before his glory withered. Therefore, the tone shifts from somber and quiet to upbeat and positive. Such shift of tone is achieved by Housman’s use of sounds. In first two stanzas, Housman describes the funeral procession as he remembers the time when the young athlete was proudly brought home after he won a race. Then, he solaces the mourners by reminding them it is better that the athlete “slip betimes away from fields where glory does not stay” (lines 9 and 10) because the laurel “withers quicker than the rose” (line 12). The soft “s” sound stands out especially in second and third stanza and it creates a sense of calm and quiet tone and evokes an image of townspeople mourning the death of their “hero”; Consonance of “s” sounds is present in words “shoulder, set, threshold, townsman, stiller, smart, slip, betimes, fields, does, stay, grows, withers, and rose.” In addition to consonance, soft sound alliteration in “road all runners” (line 5) helps to create a quiet tone. As the poem progresses into praising of the young athlete in stanzas four through seven, the consonance of hard “c”, “t”, and “f” sound become prominent. Readers can immediately detect

     Another contrast is the vision of the woman before the bombing at the church and after the bombing at the church. At the beginning she is described in a whole stanza, as if a camera were slowly panning her entire figure. Her beautiful hair and white clothing make one think of a pure, angelic figure. Then, suddenly, in one line, her description is a new one, “Her eyes grew wet and wild.” It seems like the camera now just flashed to her face as it turns to look at it. The short verses long descriptions show the reader her state of being. The long lined description gives a feeling of sereneness, then the one-liner shows the reader her panic and shock

This contrast relates to the theme because it shows how an adult can negatively be affected by materialistic things such as money. In the first stanza there is a strong use of positive imagery- representing a child’s mind. For example, “grass grows soft and white”, gives a floral and peaceful description about the place used in the description. However, in the second stanza there is the use of negative imagery. The imagery used helps to describe a dark and lifeless city, a phrase which influences this would be, “smoke blows black”, which means pollution. Within the second stanza, the narrator introduces personal pronouns. These pronouns influence the reader’s thoughts about the

its singular form is appearing in the first stanza line 3 but here the prevalent impression is one of immensity, landscape without horizon, being lost.

The poem is opened by a country woman discovering a dramatically changed woman that used to work beside

The last two lines of the poem possess an extremely powerful sense of defeat and sorrow.

In the fourth stanza, the speaker begins to explain more items that have been lost and it apparent that the

The next stanza shifts to images of the dead land with clutching branches and roots. We can see from this