We see this in all living things. ... If this is her only son, then her family line could quite possibly end with him. ... They carry themselves proudly as "[t]hey march on their soles up Main Street" (39). ... As the speaker later "stand[s] on top/of our back steps and breathe the rich air" (43-4) he insights into a brighter tone. ... Perhaps we all could learn a lesson from the skunks as well. ...
The portrayal of nature in the poem: the mad gusts' of the merciless iced east winds that knive' and the poignant misery of the dawn', is negative and introduces the idea that the soldiers in the salient are under attack, not only by the enemy, but from nature as well. ... There is the feeling that something will happen at any moment, this is underlined by Owen's use of ellipsis dots at the end of every sentence in Stanza one, which allude to a sense of anticipation and of something ready to come to a head at any moment. ... There is also the use of alliteration: fligh...
The speaker intimately says that when body and soul unites it challenges all boundaries. By using the words "ordinary swoon", the speaker suggests that love is something completely universal, but also natural and that their love can be distinguished from all other relationships. ... The anaphora of "not" emphasizes that, despite the rapid passing of time that tries to erase the memories of the past, the speaker will do everything in his might to remember the finest details in their relationship: the "whisper[s]", "thought[s]" and kiss[es]". ... In l...
That's all, nothing else... That's all, nothing else... But, with the air of a lord or lady, he perched above my chamber door upon a bust of Pallas (39-40). ... His eyes have all the likeness of a demon that is scheming, and the lamp shining over him casts his shadow on the floor. ... The repetitive six line stanzas written in iambic octameter keep a strict rhyming scheme: abcbbb, where b is the end-rhyme for Lenore which is consistent throughout the 108 lines of the poem. ...
