Robert Gray: Poems Literary Elements

The action in the poem "In Departing Light" is told from the perspective of a first-person subjective point of view.

The poem "Harbour Dusk" is written in free verse.

The term stars is used in "Twilight" as a metaphor to represent the high aspirations a person may have at some point in their lives.

We have an alliteration in the poem "Twilight" in the line "These long stars on stalks that have grown up".

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"In Departing Light" is a meditative poem about the true natrue of old age.

The action in "Harbour Dusk" takes place in an empty park at sunset.

The tone in "A Bowl of Pears" is an accusatory one and violent one.

The protagonist in "Wing-Beat" is the summer and the antagonist is winter.

The major conflict in "In Departing Light" is between youthfulness and old age.

The poem "Wing-Beat" reaches its climax when the narrator returns home.

At the beginning of the poem "Byron Bay: Winter" the narrator mentions the idea that humans have a very limited eyesight. This foreshadows the later claim that humans often miss what is the most important thing around them because they do not have the capacity to see it.

At the beginning of the poem "A Bowl of Pears," the narrator claims what the man in the woods means no harm and that his axe poses no danger. This is later proven to be an understatement when the man is described as cutting down the trees in the woods.

One of the main allusions we find in "In Departing Light" is the idea that sometimes it is better to die than to deal with the problems which come with old age.

The sunset is used in the poem "Harbour Dusk" as a general term to make reference to the end of a long term relationship.

We have a personification in "A Bowl of Pears" in the line "and they cried as they were cut down".

We have a hyperbole in the poem "Harbor Dusk" in the line "a sky of mulberry and orange chiffon."

We have an onomatopoeia in "In Departing Light" in the line "gurgling unintelligible words".