Genre
Love Vision Poem
Setting and Context
Set in the context of medieval romance
Narrator and Point of View
The narrator is the poet.
Tone and Mood
Sad, disheartening, buoyant, heartbroken
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is the narrator.
Major Conflict
The major conflict is that the Lover is bereaved because the love of his life was taken away from him encouragingly.
Climax
The climax is when the Lover and the narrator gets to the Fountain of Love and fall asleep. While sleeping, the God called Morpheus comes into the Lover's dreams to answer his endless questions. God reunites the Lover and his love shortly, but he wakes up to realize that it was just a dream.
Foreshadowing
The Lover’s reality about life is foreshadowed by the arrival of a Greek god Morpheus in his dreams.
Understatement
The power of dreams is understated. Through dreaming, the Lover accepts the reality that he will permanently reunite with the love of his life when he dies.
Allusions
The story alludes to fantasy and the suffering of losing a loved one.
Imagery
The imagery of loneliness is dominant in the book because it illustrates the suffering the Lover is going through in his life due to losing his beloved in a fateful manner.
Paradox
The main paradox is that the Lover reunites with his beloved but only wakes up and finds a dream.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between reality and dreams.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
The dead are incarnated when the late beloved reunites with her Lover in the dream.
