Gone, Gone Again Edward Thomas
Connotations:
Personification – “Footsteps of life”, He personifies life, and by life he means people, because it’s important to being happy in life. And another reason for making life so important would be because how lonesome and horrid war can be and from seeing so much death.
Imagery – “Outmoded, dignified, Dark and untenanted”, The empty house is described by these description but once again is linked to war. From being in a trench so long, war gets “outmoded”, War is often glorified or “dignified”, all war is “Dark”, and the longer war goes on the more vacant or “untenanted” it becomes. But Edward Thomas could quite possibly be describing himself and how he is feels from being in the war.
Allusion – “Blenheim oranges” this is an allusion to tell of the location in the poem, It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England. And at that time, England was involved in World War 1.
Repetition – “Gone, gone away”, the narrator repeats this phrase and it shows that he is lamenting about how his life has passed him by because of war but also because the man he was before the war is gone too.
Pun – “Not one pane to reflect the sun”, by not one pane he is mean that he has no more pain because he feels nothing and nothing could hurt him more than the war.
Attitude:
Elegiac is eminent throughout the poem. The narrator can be seen as an old man who has lost his youth to the war, who is sad because all his friends are dead, who is empty on the outside and has no “panes” to reflect to outside world but also no pain because there is nothing left in the world that can harm him. He is alone and knows this..
Shift:
In the first through 5th paragraphs, the narrator is lamenting over the past and the loss of his friends, and then the last two paragraphs shift to more of sorrow because of how empty he is and there is nothing left for him.
Title:
The title mean that his life, friends, happiness and everything that he was
Personification – “Footsteps of life”, He personifies life, and by life he means people, because it’s important to being happy in life. And another reason for making life so important would be because how lonesome and horrid war can be and from seeing so much death.
Imagery – “Outmoded, dignified, Dark and untenanted”, The empty house is described by these description but once again is linked to war. From being in a trench so long, war gets “outmoded”, War is often glorified or “dignified”, all war is “Dark”, and the longer war goes on the more vacant or “untenanted” it becomes. But Edward Thomas could quite possibly be describing himself and how he is feels from being in the war.
Allusion – “Blenheim oranges” this is an allusion to tell of the location in the poem, It was found at Woodstock, Oxfordshire near Blenheim in England. And at that time, England was involved in World War 1.
Repetition – “Gone, gone away”, the narrator repeats this phrase and it shows that he is lamenting about how his life has passed him by because of war but also because the man he was before the war is gone too.
Pun – “Not one pane to reflect the sun”, by not one pane he is mean that he has no more pain because he feels nothing and nothing could hurt him more than the war.
Attitude:
Elegiac is eminent throughout the poem. The narrator can be seen as an old man who has lost his youth to the war, who is sad because all his friends are dead, who is empty on the outside and has no “panes” to reflect to outside world but also no pain because there is nothing left in the world that can harm him. He is alone and knows this..
Shift:
In the first through 5th paragraphs, the narrator is lamenting over the past and the loss of his friends, and then the last two paragraphs shift to more of sorrow because of how empty he is and there is nothing left for him.
Title:
The title mean that his life, friends, happiness and everything that he was