Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The poem “The First Snowfall” is told from the perspective of a first person subjective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem “Auspex” is written in an iambic pentameter.
Metaphors and Similes
We have a simile in the poem “The Washers of the Shroud” in which death is compared with a running water. This similarity appears in many others pieces of literature but also in mythology.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find alliteration in the poem “She Came and Went” in the line “Lights on to sing, then leaves unbent”.
Irony
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Genre
“The First Snowfall” is a meditative poem.
Setting
The action described in the poem “She Came and Went” takes place inside a forest in an undetermined time.
Tone
The tone used in the poem “Auspex” is a happy and one filled with wonder.
Protagonist and Antagonist
In “The Washers of the Shroud” the protagonists are the women who go by the river to wash their clothes while the antagonist is the water which pulls them in.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in the poem “A Revolutionary Hero” is between life and death.
Climax
“An Indian-Summer Reverie” reaches its climax when summer finally arrives and the whole world changes as a result.
Foreshadowing
Joe’s death in the poem “A Revolutionary Hero” is foreshadowed by the description of the enemy army approaching the man and the town in which he lived.
Understatement
In the first stanza of the poem “Are Ye Truly Free” the narrator claims humankind is free to do as they want. This is however an understatement because later in the poem the narrator agrees humans are not free to do as they want.
Allusions
In the poem “She Came and Went” the narrator describes seeing an angle sitting at the entrance of a tent. This may be an allusion made to the Biblical story of Abraham who once fought an angle and who also had the opportunity to be a host to two angels.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
In the poem “George Washington” the president whose name is also the title of the poem is used as a general term to make reference to the greatness of the United States.
Personification
We find personification in the line “as a twig trembles” in the poem “She Came and Went”.
Hyperbole
We find hyperbole in the poem “Are Ye Truly Free?” in the line “men unworthy to be fed”.
Onomatopoeia
We find onomatopoeia in the line “a silence deep and white” in the poem “The First Snowfall”.
