Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The action in the poem "A love song" is told from the perspective of a first-person subjective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem "Snake" has no form and meter because the poem is written in free verse.
Metaphors and Similes
The term flower is used in the poem "Lies about Love" as a metaphor for love. This metaphor has the purpose of transmitting the idea that love can grow easily and also that it is an extremely fragile feeling.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find an alliteration in the line "It must be wonderful to live and grow old./ Look at my mother, how rich and still she is! " in the poem "Beautiful Old Age".
Irony
The narrator points an ironic element in the poem "A Winter's Tale". In this poem, the narrator points out that the lover continues to come closer to him even though she knows nothing will good out of their encounter.
Genre
The term "Snake" is a meditative poem.
Setting
The action taking place in the poem "A Love Song" is situated inside the narrator's bedroom.
Tone
The tone used in the poem "Snake" is a violent one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist in the poem "Snake" is the narrator and the antagonist is the snake.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in "A Love Song" is an internal one that resulted from the narrator's desire to be with his lover and the availability to do so because of the circumstances in which he finds himself.
Climax
The poem "Snake" reaches its climax when the snake disappears after the narrator throws a log at it.
Foreshadowing
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Understatement
At the beginning of the poem "Beautiful Old Age," the narrator claims that old people are extremely happy. This is however proved to be an understatement towards the end of the poem when the narrator lists all the problems old people have to deal with.
Allusions
One of the main allusions in the poem "Lies about love" is the idea that what a person says can never be trusted and a person should always try to get every word in writing if it is possible.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term "sleep" is used in almost all of the poems as a general term to make reference to the idea of ignorance.
Personification
We have a personification in the poem "Tease" in the line "masculine machinery".
Hyperbole
We have a hyperbole in the poem "Tease" in the lines "When I hear you jingling through /All the chambers of my soul,".
Onomatopoeia
We have an instance of onomatopoeia in the line "I do forget the sounding of your voice," in the poem "A Love Song".
