Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The action in the poem "An Elegy" is told from the perspective of a first-person subjective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem "My Picture Left in Scotland" is written in free verse.
Metaphors and Similes
The eyes are used in the poem "Song to Celia" as a metaphor to represent the feelings of affection one person may have for another.
Alliteration and Assonance
We have an alliteration in the line "Throughout your form, as, though that move" in the poem "An Elegy".
Irony
One ironic element can be found in the poem "On Poet-Ape". In this poem, the narrator calls his own readers as being unintelligent even though he knows he is insulting his own audience.
Genre
The poem "Song to Celia" is a love poem.
Setting
The action described in the poem "On My First Son" takes place inside the narrator's room.
Tone
The tone in the poem "My Picture Left in Scotland" is an auto ironical one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist in "On My First Son" is the narrator and the antagonist is the narrator's feelings of death caused by the death of his son.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in the poem "His Excuse for Loving" is between the desire to love and the fear that love will one day die.
Climax
The poem "A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior" reaches its climax when the narrator claims that a person can be saved only through faith.
Foreshadowing
The title "On Poet-Ape" foreshadows the comparison between those who do not have any artistical inclinations with animals or other creatures which do not have any type of superior intelligence.
Understatement
No understatement can be found.
Allusions
The main allusion in the poem "My Picture Left in Scotland" is the idea that a person's appearance can influence another person's feelings and may even stop a person from developing feelings of affection.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term poem is used in "On Poet-Ape" as a general term to make reference to a type of superior intelligence.
Personification
We have a personification in the line "so chaste a flame," in the poem "An Elegy".
Hyperbole
In the poem "His Excuse for Loving" contains a hyperbole in the line "Poets, though divine, are men".
Onomatopoeia
We find an onomatopoeia in the line "I sing be such" in the poem "An Elegy".
