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The persona in the poem is undergoing a journey to find and observe the shipwreck which is an extended metaphor of the disasters and hardships that people go through in life. In the beginning of the journey, the persona has a mask to keep her alive during the journey. The mask represents the fake identity and the power and value that the persona places on this fabricated identity as they need it to ‘survive’ in the world. Additionally, the persona uses flippers to aid her journey, however they instead “cripple” them and force them to “crawl like an insect down the ladder”. This conveys the restrictive nature of society on an individual’s identity… However, once the persona discovers the shipwreck in stanza 8, they transform into a “mermaid”. This externalises the transformation of the persona’s identity to their true identity as they no longer need the fabricated identity. The mermaid represents the personas full adaptation and transformation to the new environment, thus demonstrating that true identity can be discovered through experiences. It also demonstrates that an authentic identity can be made of a combination of current and past identities and experiences. This is also evident in ‘Muriel’s Wedding’ as Muriel’s final identity is a combination of who she was and what she learnt as both Muriel and

The poem as a whole appear to be a metaphor for, or symbolic of the depression and loneliness felt by the speaker . In the very first line “I have been one acquainted with the night” (I. 1), tells that the speaker knows of the ‘night’ (a metaphor for loneliness and depression). The speaker also personifies the night by being ‘acquainted’ with it. In the second line, the usage of the word ‘rain’ is a metaphor for life’s problems, which the speaker seems to be immersed with . In the third and fourth lines, the speaker uses hyperbole when he says “I have outwalked the furthest city light/ I have looked down the saddest city lane” (I. 3; II. 1), a feat not humanly possible, because the farthest city light would suggest the end of the city, and the word ‘saddest’ is a relative emotion. The words “city light” is also symbolic of a community and friends, which the speaker is trying to

The final line of the first stanza emphasizes the power of the ocean and that it does not discriminate when choosing its victims since it willingly takes "the young, the bright, the fair" (8). The poem then transitions like the crest of a wave colliding with a sandy beach as it begins to talk specifically of those who find solace beneath the wrathful waves. The poem's structure also echoes the ebb and flow of the ocean as one wave flawlessly makes way for another. The second stanza begins by describing the slumber of the "wearied seamen" and by stating that they are resting "calmly" the speaker conjures an atmosphere of finality and peace (9). The poem also refers to the sea as belonging to the seamen through the use of the word "own" and in doing so he emphasizes that because the men spent their lives on the sea it became their home

Within The Seafarer, he mourns for the sea when he is on land, but seeks safety in his homeland while he is in cruising the ocean waves. In line's 23-30 lines' states the following, "Storm beat on the rocky cliffs and were echoed by icy-feathered tern and the eagle's screams; no kinsman could offer comfort there, to a soul left drowning in desolation. And who could believe, knowing but the passion of cities, swelled proud with wine and no taste of misfortune, how often, how easily, I put myself back on the paths of the sea." This represents a classic theme of isolation and longing for the near future, the light at the end of the tunnel. "Golden shakes the wrath of God, for a soul overflowing with sin, and nothing hidden on earth rises to Heaven. We all fear God. He turns the earth. He set it swinging firmly in space. Gave life to the world and light to

Also Night could be referring to the darkest part of the day which would be comparing night to the worst that is to come. The next example of a metaphor is in the third stanza. “Looms but the horror of the shade” (10). By saying that, shade is an unexpected life event. Shade could also be used to foreshadow the incidents that are to come.

When I began to interpret the meaning of this poem the biggest thing that stands out is the storm and the rain which could mean that the narrator is depressed or very sad. I think in this poem the narrator drinks a lot and is under the influence of alcohol. In the beginning of the poem he talks about an overflowing wineglass although all of the wine either spilled out or he drank it all but considering he is drunk I would assume that he drank it all. When you combine the alcohol with being depressed is what the feeling of the poem really is. Through the poem the narrator talks about his drinking and how his depression is consuming him. Depression is when you’re feeling really sad about your life or something in your life. In the middle of the poem it says “Over the table’s scales of rust, Shining like chained sores” which would mean that the drinking is an old habit and he has been following the pattern of getting drunk and being depressed for a long time. Rust forms when water continuously sits on a table and the more the water the more the rust forms so that would represent how often he gets drunk and depressed with the depression continues to

Imagine Dragons’ “Demons” is a poem that has much symbolism and tone involved through its entirety. “Demons” is a song about anger and darkness, and involves a relationship between two people. But how is this translated into the poem? Throughout his entire poem, the characters are revealed in some way shape or form. Though many will just sing the song or hum the tune, they do not get what the words actually mean.

The last area of The Hollow Men opens with a nursery rhyme substituting the `mulberry hedge' by the `prickly pear'. This component suggests the desert flora, abridging every one of the elements of death's other/dream/dusk kingdom: dryness, aridity, isolation, repugnance and stationary nature. The empty men go 'round it at five o'clock in the morning. This roundabout development depicts a picture of kids moving as an inseparable unit and singing like in a customary, custom diversion. The time when this happens, when nighttime and dimness disperse and the sun starts to sparkle, additionally has an exceptional essentialness. That is the season of restoration, of coming back to life, of trust in the vacant men. Be that as it may, every one of the components disclosed appear to deride the empty men's circumstance, as though the kids' melody did not need to welcome the daylight, but rather to drive it off and bring indefinite quality once more. This custom of `interruption of life' is produced inside of the remaining verses of Part V.

This is an allusion to the Book of Revelation, which prophesied the return of Christ as a joyous and glorious occasion. However, Yeats is troubled by the revelation given to him by the Spiritus Mundi, the collective spirit of mankind during the poem's climax. He describes the second coming not of Christ himself, but of a sphinx found in the desert with a “gaze blank and pitiless as the sun” (Yeats 15). The desert is significant in the Bible: it is the home of the devil and now this “rough beast”. For Yeats, the beast’s arrival represents the coming of the new chaotic civilization created by war. Likewise, “the indignant desert birds” circling above the sphinx represent the coming death and decay of society: vultures prey on the dead (Yeats 17). Yeats goes on to claim that “twenty centuries of stony sleep/Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle”(Yeats 19-20). These twenty centuries are once again an allusion to the Bible, Christ was born roughly 2,000 years ago, and Yeats compares these centuries to an infant’s slumber for one night. The cradle holding the infant represents the idea that something has been recently born, in this case, a new civilization left in the wake of society's implosion. The last lines of “The Second Coming” are foreboding the chaos to come, as well as making a religious allusion to the birthplace of Christ. This city, Bethlehem, is the embodiment of all that is good, however, a “rough beast” that slouches toward the city threatens to corrupt this goodness (Yeats 21). While Yeats did not know about these events, today, the beast could be interpreted as the awfulness of the twentieth century: Hitler and the Nazis, totalitarianism, World War 2, and the atomic bomb. Consequently, these horrors were a direct result of the WW1 and Europe’s descent into

However, the other worldly dream would result in the death of the narrator. In the beginning of the poem, there is an apparition of a beautiful women who reflects the characteristics and desires of the speaker. When the two “merge together”, the women vanished leaving the man with an unforgiving obsession to be reunited with her. As an example of his obsession, a caring and loving women tends to the man’s every end, but he doesn’t acknowledge her presence. Through the rest of the poem, the reader is pulled through the winding and desperate journey of the Poet. Like the Mariner, the voyage occur on a boat that would ultimately leave the occupants alone and on the verge of death. The two are pushed into unforgiving waters, that plunge them closer to the supernatural world. As the Poet floats on, he comes to the conclusion that death is the only way for him to be reunited with his love. During his observation of the moon that “gleamed through the darkness”, he passively accepts the darkness. “But when heaven remained/ utterly black, the murky shades involved/ an image, silent, cold, and motionless…” The outcome of the speaker in Alastor advises readers not to get caught up in perfection and forget about the necessity of pure human

More subtle literary devices, like alliteration, are also used to some extent. There are not as many in the poem; however, they are linked with diction that makes them stand out. After the speaker leaves the Spiritus Mundi, the “darkness drops”(line 18). By stating that darkness drops, the speaker is hinting to the reader that the world is already engulfed in complete darkness and sin. Darkness is compared to an object of great weight because it falls on the world (humans) and they are unable to lift it. The alliteration also goes back to the idea of peace and anti-war sentiment when the speaker states “stony sleep”(line 19) was over twenty centuries. Sleep is typically associated with peace and quiet which is why the speaker uses this diction.

The poem is also about mysterious of life, “The big sky river rushes overhead, bearing asteroids of mist, blind fish and old space suits with skeletons inside.”

The Third section of the poem, stanzas( 9 to 12), the father moves through “dooms of feel,” instead of “dooms of love”. He learns to receive and show the full range of human emotion . “septembering arms” he describes part of the body of his father. He mentions the September is the nine month of the year, it is symbol to the birthstone and sapphire, like his father arm, he gives a lot free, he opens the mind and the soul of the people. “if every friend became his foe he’d laugh and build a world with snow.” The father is tolerant and respectable person with his friends even they stabbed him, he laugh at them and pardon them. “snow” this word in the last line of this stanza symbolize something bad will happen, sad, death, and despair

The speaker describes it as sweet, but then he describes “Of the night wind, down the vast edges drear” (27). The speaker sees the night as an evil, that howls around humans, in our lonely and vulnerable world. Night is also the last word of the poem, which leaves the reader in the dark, lonely, confused, faithless world, with feelings of abandonment, and fear. The moon is also a key part of the night, bringing the light to the night, but the light does not seem completely good either. “Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land” (9). The speaker seems to be hinting that even the moon has evil in it; blanched makes the moon seem unnaturally pale, and almost a little like death. The final two stanza shows the speaker’s opinion of the world related to faith, and it appears that the speaker has lost his faith. “And we here as on a darkling plain” (35). This is a simile to the faithful ugliness of the world. The speaker believes that the night he sees of calm and tranquility is an illusion, and the real world is the roaring of the

He uses the word ‘gyre’ which is an important symbol in his poetry. The gyre describes two types of historical cycle – order and growth, chaos and decays – as explained in his poem “The Gyres”. In addition he also describes ‘the falcon’ turning inside the ‘gyre’ until it loses its way. The reader can convey the idea that the falcon symbolise us as human being and the ‘falconer’ as God and we as human have lost our way in the spiral of history development (gyre) until we cannot hear the God’s voice. Furthermore, the line ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold’ foreshadows the chaos that are coming soon because the centre (order of life) has collapsed. In the line four until six the author jumps into the scene of violence and terror. It activates the reader imagination to imagine the worst picture of the world. The author describes the chaos by using phrases like ‘tide’, ‘loosed’ and ‘drown’ which all are related to water, those phrases may symbolise the flood in the Book of Exodus but this time there is no