The Dream Songs Literary Elements

The poems are narrated from a third person subjective point of view.

The poems are written in an iambic pentameter.

In the poem ‘’Dream Song 14’’ the narrator compares the people able to feel happiness and find happiness in everything with dogs. The reason why the narrator compares these people with dogs is because he wants to transmit the idea that those people find happiness in every small thing.

We find alliteration in the lines "Peoples bore me,/literature bores me, especially great literature."

One ironic element is presented in the poem ‘’Dream Song 14’’ when the narrator talks about the great literature and art of the world and claims that those things does not produce any happiness in him.

Meditative poems

The action in the poem ‘’Dream Song 29’’ takes place inside a forest.

In some of the poems, the narrator uses a condescending tone, mocking the reader and other characters.

The protagonist in the poem ‘’Dream Song 29’’ is Henry and the antagonist is the woman killed by him.

The major conflict is between life and death.

The poem ‘’Dream Song 14’’ reaches its climax when the narrator sees the dog leaving and going towards the mountain.

The beginning of the poem ‘’Dream Song 76’’ foreshadows the murder at the end of the poem.

When the narrator claims Henry killed the woman in the poem ‘’Dream Song 29’’ is an understatement. Through this, the narrator wanted to transmit the idea that Henry wanted to get rid of that person for good, almost as if he was killing her.

The narrator alludes in the poem ‘’Dream Song 14’’ that he tried to be just like everyone else and deny he was feeling bored.

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We find personification in the line "All the bells say: too late.’’

We find a hyperbole in the line "terms o' your bafflin odd sobriety.’’

We find onomatopoeia in the line ‘’ the little cough somewhere, an odour, a chime.’’.