Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The poem "Travel: is told from the perspective of a first-person subjective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem "Underground System" is written in an iambic pentameter form.
Metaphors and Similes
The term "train" is used in the poem "Travel" as a metaphor by the author. Through this term, the narrator wants to transmit the idea that life is a journey and everyone must take a train or rather decide where their life is supposed to go and what they want to achieve from it.
Alliteration and Assonance
We have an alliteration in the line "That flourish through neglect, and soon must send" in the poem "We talk of taxes...".
Irony
No ironic elements can be found in the poems.
Genre
The poem "Underground System" is a meditative poem.
Setting
The action described in "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" takes place inside the narrator's bedroom.
Tone
The tone used in "Two Sonnets from Memory" is a violent one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist in "When the Year grows old" is the woman looking out of the window and the antagonist is the winter.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" is between love and separation.
Climax
The poem "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" reaches its conflict when the narrator admits in the last stanza of the poem that his lover is no longer by his side.
Foreshadowing
The first stanza in the poem "When the Year grows old" foreshadows the death of the woman described in the last stanza of the poem.
Understatement
In the first line of the poem "We talk of taxes..." the narrator implies that the person to whom this poem is addressed to is a friend. This is proven to be an understatement later in the poem when the narrator admits the "friend" is just someone whom he actually hates.
Allusions
One of the main allusion found in the poem "Two Sonnets from Memory" is that both freedom and love are illusions which a person usually grows out from once they reach adulthood.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term "house" is used "Underground System" as a general term used to refer to the stability offered by the family structure.
Personification
We have a personification in the line "Set the foot down with distrust" in the poem "Underground System".
Hyperbole
We find a hyperbole in the line "Yet shall be seen no more by mortal eyes" from the poem "Two Sonnets from Memory".
Onomatopoeia
We have an onomatopeia in the line "the day is loud with voices speaking" in the poem "Travel".
