Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The speaker of the poem ‘Landscape with Flying Man’ is in the third person. The speaker holds the view that love will gives happiness and also causes untold pain.
Form and Meter
The form of the poem ‘Landscape with Flying Man’ is five stanzas with two lines each.
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem, The Ugly, the speaker uses the following similes, ‘I love you as I love the Hatchefish’ and , ‘who staple their menfolk to the vagina’s hide, like scorched purses stiff with seed …’ These similes have been used to liken the love that the persona has towards a lover.
Alliteration and Assonance
In the poem, The Ugly, the line,’ The Allmouth, the Angler’ has assonance. This is because of the repetition of the sound /a/.
Irony
The poem ‘Landscape with flying man’ contains situational irony in the instance where the flying man was given wings that were supposed to carry him home but he flew so much such that he fell.
Genre
The poems ‘Landscape with Flying Man’ and ‘The Ugly’ are narrative poems.
Setting
The setting of the poem ‘Landscape with Flying Man’ is unnamed at a time when the speaker was contemplating the joys and pains of love.
Tone
The poem ‘Landscape with Flying Man’ carries a regretful tone towards love, a somber tone towards the pain that comes with love.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The poems ’Landscape with Flying Man’ and ‘The Ugly’ have neither protagonists nor antagonists
Major Conflict
The major conflict in the poem, ‘ Landscape with Flying man’ was whether the flying man would reach home with the wings that his father had made him.
Climax
In the poem ,’Landscape with Flying Man’, the flying man falls from the sky and does not get home.
Foreshadowing
In the poem ‘ Landscape with Flying Man’, the speaker says that the flying man loved to fly so much. This was a foreshadowing to the later part of the poem that says that he fell because he flew too much more than the wings could handle.
Understatement
The line ‘nor gravity but love pulls us back down to the world ‘ is an understatement. It understates the pain that is caused by love. People such as Icarus have suffered greatly because of love as the poem puts it.
Allusions
The poem ‘Landscape with Flying Man’ uses literary allusion to the story of Icarus and Daedalus.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
In the poem ‘Landscape with Flying Man’ the wings represent power. Therefore metonymy has been used in the poem.
Personification
The poem ‘Landscape with Flying Man’ personifies love , ‘..but love that pulls us back down to to the world. Love furnishes the wings.’
Hyperbole
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Onomatopoeia
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