Comparing My Last Duchess And Hitcher
Compare the ways mood is presented in ‘The Laboratory’, ‘My Last Duchess’, ‘Hitcher’ and ‘Salome’.
Mood is a state of feeling stimulated by a particular apparatus or situation. It can also be a distinct emotional characteristics/ theme of a particular item.
Mood is reflected in the four poems by the different poets utilising various devices and techniques such as the diction, language, alliteration etc, in order to display a certain message to the audience.
The poem ‘Hitcher’ refers to the environment in order to set up the mood. The first stanza holds the quote “I’d been tired under the weather”, which shows that the weather stimulated the feeling of the character in this poem, in this case the character is referring that the weather was responsible of making him feel tired. This shows that he wasn’t feeling quite well and maybe was depressed or was not in a good piece of mind.
Then in the last stanza of the poem states “the outlook for the day was moderate to fair”. This was stated after the murder which suggests that suddenly after he committed the murder, the weather seemed so much better to him than before the murder or maybe the weather was consistent all throughout, when the character thought something to be physiologically different. On the other hand, perhaps the character just used the weather as a …show more content…
The opening lines; “that’s my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she was alive” connotes that every time the character looks at a particular object (in this case perhaps a portrait or a certain part of a wall) it stimulates, what seems to be, the same reaction each time. The character feels that the Duchess is still alive when he looks at that item. If the item is just a wall perhaps he recalls the memories with the Duchess or in case of that item being a portrait, this could be a comment on how well the painting is painted that it looks
Mood is a state of feeling stimulated by a particular apparatus or situation. It can also be a distinct emotional characteristics/ theme of a particular item.
Mood is reflected in the four poems by the different poets utilising various devices and techniques such as the diction, language, alliteration etc, in order to display a certain message to the audience.
The poem ‘Hitcher’ refers to the environment in order to set up the mood. The first stanza holds the quote “I’d been tired under the weather”, which shows that the weather stimulated the feeling of the character in this poem, in this case the character is referring that the weather was responsible of making him feel tired. This shows that he wasn’t feeling quite well and maybe was depressed or was not in a good piece of mind.
Then in the last stanza of the poem states “the outlook for the day was moderate to fair”. This was stated after the murder which suggests that suddenly after he committed the murder, the weather seemed so much better to him than before the murder or maybe the weather was consistent all throughout, when the character thought something to be physiologically different. On the other hand, perhaps the character just used the weather as a …show more content…
The opening lines; “that’s my last duchess painted on the wall, looking as if she was alive” connotes that every time the character looks at a particular object (in this case perhaps a portrait or a certain part of a wall) it stimulates, what seems to be, the same reaction each time. The character feels that the Duchess is still alive when he looks at that item. If the item is just a wall perhaps he recalls the memories with the Duchess or in case of that item being a portrait, this could be a comment on how well the painting is painted that it looks