Kategorien: Alle - love - separation - imagery

von Peter Clark Vor 14 Jahren

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Remembrance

The text explores a journey from self-doubt to new resolve following the death of a loved one, structured in eight four-lined verses. The language and imagery are rich, using personification of emotions and time, dramatic punctuation, and oxymorons to convey the poet'

Remembrance

Remembrance

Structure

To new resolve to carry on without him
Moves from self-dout over her faithfullness to her dead husband
Eight 4 lined verses

Form

A lyrical, elegy or lament

Theme

Despair
Remembrance and moving on
Getting over the death of a loved one
Love
Separation and loss

Language and imagery

Dramatic use of punctuation - ? ! - to show th strength of the poet's feelings
Oxymorons - 'rapturous pain' 'divinest anguish' - the joy and pain of memory
Personification of despair
Presonification of time as an unstopable wave
Repetition - 'cold' 'severed' 'hopes' 'bliss' - emphasises the effect of death
Second half - softer hymn like - 'bliss' 'rapturous'
First half - hard, harsh words - 'cold' 'sever' 'suffereing'

Tone

Ultimate tone - determined, certainty, courage, stoicism, strength of will and purpose
Then - loving, tender, fond, and passsionate
First - questioning and doubtful
Varies - mirrors poet's emotions

Rhythm and rhyme

Feels like an outpouring of emotions
Hymnal
Slow, sobre and regular