Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The poems are narrated from the perspective of a first person subjective narrator.
Form and Meter
The poems are written in an iambic pentameter.
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem ‘’Angle’’, the narrator compares the person whom he addresses with a mother capable of taking care of him and making his pain go away. The comparison is important because it transmits the idea that the narrator depends on the female character to take care of him and make him feel safe.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find alliteration in the line ‘’ "Spring! Spring!" He seems to cry,’’.
Irony
In the poem ‘’Angle’’, the narrator begins by trying to make the person left behind feel better. He acts in the first two stanzas as the protector but this attitude changes in the last stanza. There, ironically, he portrays himself as a small child, in need of protection and help from the person he was trying to protect from pain.
Genre
The majority of the poems are meditative ones.
Setting
The poem ‘’When Spring Goes by’’ is set on a field, during springtime.
Tone
The tone used in the poems is a depressing one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist in the poem ‘’When Spring goes by’’ is the spring and the antagonist is the frost.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in most of the poems is between life and death.
Climax
The poem ‘’At the cedars’’ reaches its climax when the two girls die in the accident.
Foreshadowing
The death of the two girls in the poem ‘’At the cedars’’ is foreshadows by the mentioning of the cedar trees, commonly used as symbols for death and misfortune.
Understatement
In the poem ‘’When Spring goes by’’ the narrator suggests in the beginning that spring was affected by front and may even regress back to winter. This is an understatement as in the second stanza the narrator describes the way spring wakes the vegetation to life.
Allusions
In the poem ‘’Angle’’ it is alluded that the narrator of the story is dead and he talks with a loved one who may want to join him in heaven.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
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Personification
We find personification in the line ‘’ constant, silver thrill’’.
Hyperbole
We find a hyperbole in the line ‘’ Close their burning skies.’’ in the poem ‘’Angles’’.
Onomatopoeia
We find an onomatopoeia in the line ‘’ When the sighs like sobs re-kindled’’ in the poem ‘’Angles’’.
