During wind and rain anaylsis
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Rough draft "During Wind and Rain" by Thomas Hardy
No matter how happy life can be, death awaits all. In the poem “During Wind and Rain”, the author, Thomas Hardy, emphasizes his growing thoughts about death through the use of alliteration, personification, and punctuation. With these devices Hardy creates the main point of death awaits all. In the poem Hardy also uses Imagery to convey a sense of gloom.
The most striking image of death is found in the alliteration, “rotten rose is ripped”. The three ‘r’ sounds shows the violence of the wind and of death. With the use of this ‘r’ sound, Hardy highlights the importance of the sentence because it is harsh or cacophonous. The image Hardy creates shows his feeling about death and how it ties back into every day events. Hardy even suggests that in time the weather will plough through the stone that contains the names of the family. He seems bleak or dark here while he describes the scene.
Additionally Hardy uses the word ‘sick’ to associate death with illness and decay through the use of personification. With the use of personification, Hardy also creates a better image for the reader to picture, as well as adding emphasis to the overall theme of death. Hardy ends each stanza with a reminder of death which hints that Hardy thinks that all the happy scenes of life are bordered or framed by signs of death. Along with personification, punctuation is also used to stress the overall theme of death. Hardy structures his words into unfinished sentences that last many lines. Through his punctuation of a dash he can insert comments, somewhat like the use of brackets. Almost every line has a single complete image. The use of exclamation after ‘O!’ supports the poems central feeling or tone of sadness and death.
Although Hardy never exactly says death controls everyday life, he implies it through the use of many poetic devices such as Personification, Alliteration, and Punctuation. The many times Hardy sounds
Rough draft "During Wind and Rain" by Thomas Hardy
No matter how happy life can be, death awaits all. In the poem “During Wind and Rain”, the author, Thomas Hardy, emphasizes his growing thoughts about death through the use of alliteration, personification, and punctuation. With these devices Hardy creates the main point of death awaits all. In the poem Hardy also uses Imagery to convey a sense of gloom.
The most striking image of death is found in the alliteration, “rotten rose is ripped”. The three ‘r’ sounds shows the violence of the wind and of death. With the use of this ‘r’ sound, Hardy highlights the importance of the sentence because it is harsh or cacophonous. The image Hardy creates shows his feeling about death and how it ties back into every day events. Hardy even suggests that in time the weather will plough through the stone that contains the names of the family. He seems bleak or dark here while he describes the scene.
Additionally Hardy uses the word ‘sick’ to associate death with illness and decay through the use of personification. With the use of personification, Hardy also creates a better image for the reader to picture, as well as adding emphasis to the overall theme of death. Hardy ends each stanza with a reminder of death which hints that Hardy thinks that all the happy scenes of life are bordered or framed by signs of death. Along with personification, punctuation is also used to stress the overall theme of death. Hardy structures his words into unfinished sentences that last many lines. Through his punctuation of a dash he can insert comments, somewhat like the use of brackets. Almost every line has a single complete image. The use of exclamation after ‘O!’ supports the poems central feeling or tone of sadness and death.
Although Hardy never exactly says death controls everyday life, he implies it through the use of many poetic devices such as Personification, Alliteration, and Punctuation. The many times Hardy sounds