“Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone” by W. H. Auden Stop all the clocks‚ cut off the telephone‚ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone‚ Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin‚ let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead‚ Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves‚ Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North‚ my South‚ my East and West‚ My working week and
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After reading the first stanza the reader can almost hear or sense the feeling of the fly buzzing in such a still and quiet room. The contrasting sounds of the noisy fly and the stillness in the air draw the reader deeper into the poem. The image created by this contrast is like the color white on the color black. It stands out immensely and catches the reader’s eye. After the first stanza the reader is in full knowledge of the death of the poet. The second stanza reads‚ "The eyes beside
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the first stanza it begins with the ambulance arriving and bringing life and hope‚ “like an artery” is a symbol of life and also a symbol of hope. Another symbol of life in the first stanza is “The ambulance at top speed floating down” which means like an angel which represents life and hope. The writer portrays the idea of life and hope in the first stanza by using symbolism and symbolising the like of angels and artery’s which both are a symbol of life. In the second and third stanzas of “Autowreck”
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books. The title is a mock‚ serious title for it sounds like a piece of academic research Larkin uses first person persona to give expression to things he would prefer not to have attributed to himself. The structure of the poem divided into three stanzas; school years‚ adolescent years and the present. The tone is sarcastic and colloquial‚ that along with the shorter lines‚ creates a less serious poem from Larkin. In the first part of his journey‚ the persona is imaginative and loves to read‚
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and diminishment is pervasive. And the poem “No Road” is not an exception either. In his poems of this series Larkin invents stanza forms of intricate patterns that become one with the content of the poem. His rigorous adherence to these patterns brings the sadness into sharp relief and gives the emotions their authority. The poem “No Road” is divided into three stanzas each of which has its own idea and theme‚ but on the whole they make the poem be integral. The first part of the poem tells us
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Cleanliness here seems almost antiseptic‚ or negative and the idea of perfect regulation in ‘sanities’ repeats in ‘sanitary’‚ ‘levelness’‚ ‘straight’‚ ‘pedantic rows’ and ‘rational whine’. There is an uncomfortable edge to this perfection. While the first stanza is full of the semantic field ofregulation‚ and control‚ the second is rising ‘hysteria’‚ where even inanimate objects take on a ‘vicious’ tone. Pathetic fallacy puts ‘sickness lingering‘ in the garages‚ the ‘plastic hose‘ is ‘poised‘ like a snake
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and ’my’ in the poem delineates that it is a very personal and self-centered poem; cut off from the world..The repetition of the last line of each stanza-"And...done"‚ emphasizes the poet’s inability to escape his execution. It is an elegy encasing several metaphors that allow readers to resent the with compassion the plight of the poet. In the first stanza‚ Tichbourne makes use of antithesis to establish the circumstances of his life. he reflects on his short life‚ one which ended before he truly lived
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sisters with different aspects. The mythical side could be referring to the two sides of Persephone to show the connections between "shade and light". In the first stanza‚ it introduces the two sisters‚ different as dark and light. One sister is very happy while the other is awfully depressed. In the second‚ third‚ and last stanza‚ it talks about the aspects of the sister of the shade side. This sister is a logical‚ mathematical‚ and thinker sort of person. She spends her time dark shadowy room
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sympathise with the character. It is a poem of lamentation and has elements of being an elegy‚ as Marty seems to be in deep and serious reflection. The poem has a feel of being a ballad as it is constructed of many mournful short stanzas and is often quiet meditative. Stanzas 1 to 8 are each quatrains which an A/B rhyme scheme. This creates a light-hearted feel‚ which makes the context of the poem less mournful by allowing the poem to flow smoothly. Hardy creates clear‚ vivid imagery throughout the
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adds on to the tension of what the potential and meaning of language really is. The poem is arranged into five stanzas‚ each with its own setting and time of day to unify the whole literary piece into one length of time; a day. It starts from one midnight to the next‚ taking the reader through a journey that could possibly be compared to the length of one’s lifetime. The first stanza starts its time during the late night. This is evident because the speaker addresses the way light works in the dark
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