Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The poems are told from the perspective of a third person objective narrator.
Form and Meter
The poems have no fixed form and meter because they are modern poems
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem ‘’Bushed’’, the narrator mentions at one point how birds fall from the skies like Valkyries. The comparison is used in this context to show just how much the natural environment was degrading.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find alliteration in the lines ‘’ her legs swam by/ like lovely trout/ eyes were trees’’.
Irony
No irony can be found in the poems.
Genre
Meditative poems
Setting
The action of the poem ‘’Bushed’’ takes place near a mountain and a lake.
Tone
The tone used in the poems is a hopeless and depressing one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist in the poem ‘'The Bear on the Delhi Road'’ is the bear and the antagonists are the two men hurting the bear.
Major Conflict
In the poem ‘’The Bear on the Delhi Road’’, the major conflict Id between nature and mankind.
Climax
The poem ‘’Bushed’’ reaches its climax when the wind shapes the tip of a mountain into an arrowhead shape and the narrator knows he is going to be killed by it.
Foreshadowing
The term ‘’plush feet’’ is used in the poem ‘’From the Hazel Bough’’ as a way of foreshadowing the idea that the woman in the poem is a prostitute.
Understatement
In the poem ‘’Vancouver Lights’’, the initial idea transmitted is that the light spread by the lamps in the continents is beneficial. This idea changes however towards the end of the poem when the lamps become a negative aspect.
Allusions
One of the elements alluded in the poem ‘The Bear on the Delhi Road' is how the two men who captured the bear and put it to dance are unhappy with this as much as the bear is. The men do this because they need to live and so they are willing to put the happiness of another being into danger just so they could live as they want.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term ‘’mountain’’ appears in many poems as a general term making reference to the idea of nature and power exerted by nature.
Personification
We find a personification in the line ‘’the great flint to come singing into his heart’’ in the poem ‘’Bushed’’.
Hyperbole
We find a hyperbole in the line ‘’ On this mountain's brutish forehead with terror of space’’ in the poem ‘’Vancouver Lights’’.
Onomatopoeia
We find an onomatopoeia in the poem ‘’Bushed’’ in the lines ‘’ sent messages whizzing down every hot morning/ boomed proclamations’’.
