What Is The Mood Of The Poem Postcard By Margaret Atwood

The overall theme of the poem is sacrifice, more specifically, for the people that you love. Throughout the poem color and personification are used to paint a picture in the reader's head. “Fog hanging like old Coats between the trees.” (46) This description is used to create a monochromatic, gloomy, and dismal environment where the poem takes

Conyus uses repetition at the end of this stanza to demonstrate time, how he sat watching this horrific scene for a while as the waves came and went, taking in what he was seeing and trying to digest how this oil spill got to this point where a new morning brings a new nightmare. This line also lacks the presence of other humans in this scene; the fact that he does not comment that others are watching with him gives the idea that he alone is observing, and that he alone is going through this feeling of sadness and mourning as he watches the carcass float in the tide of regret. The imagery is infused with the idea of being forced to relive a mistake over and over again, like a recurring nightmare that does not seem to ever leave because it haunts one’s unconsciousness from the inside

Another classmate commented that she liked how the first line seemed to have a completely different meaning when rereading the poem, since it illustrates how killing one’s own inner demons is a cycle. One student also felt disconnected at “with each glance your shadow grows darker”, since the poem is not clear about what this character is glancing at or where this dialogue is coming

The central theme of the poem is the death of a young girl, so it is clear to see that at some point in the poem the mood will put the reader into a state of sadness or pity for the little girl and her mother. The mood begins with the cover image for the “Ballad of Birmingham” in Dudley Randall’s Broadside Press. “The card format and the somber illustration of six figures huddled together, heads bowed, suggest a funeral” (Sullivan). The cover of the press is a black background with six white silhouettes with their heads bowed. “Drawings will do more than any other one feature” (Bornstein 713).

The postcard is the stimulus for the persona’s continuous pursuit of his identity. He has a dynamic identity which constantly changes throughout the poem, as he can neither identify himself as Australian, nor Polish like his parents. The ever-changing nature and absence of a fixed identity is conveyed through the personification, “I never knew you/Except in the third person”. The poet does not have any recollection of life in Poland, but is constantly reminded of it through the postcard which symbolises the connection between the past and how it has an impact in shaping his identity. The psychological barrier hindering his attempt to form a concrete identity is the interactions with his past, forming uncertainty in whether he should reject or accept his Polish identity.

In every stanza Poe repeats “kingdom by the sea”(2,8, 14, 20, 31). He does this to emphasize the memories and time he and his love spent there together. The most repeated phrase throughout the poem is “Annabel Lee”(4, 10, 16,

Repetition is a strategy used to attract a person 's thoughtfulness regarding a sure thought. Consider school. On the off chance that an instructor needs to express what is on her mind, is she going to say it once? No, she is going to repeat it various times so it starts to sink in. The same works with the repeated verses in this epic.

The author uses figurative language like metaphor and repetition to determine the theme ofin the poem. For example, “Don’t you fall now” In line 17 the author explains to never give up in life. You need another analyis sentence Another example, “And splinters And boards torn up And places with no carpet on the floor” Lines 4-6 can be interpreted to mean that there are many obstacles in your life you will encounter. You

The imagery in the third stanza is asking the woman to remember the love they had together in their relationship. "murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled/And paced upon the mountains overhead/ And hid his face amid a crowd of stars." (10-12). The speaker asks the woman to remember their love that departed into "a crowd of stars".

Imagery and tone plays a huge role for the author in this poem. It’s in every stanza and line in this poem. The tone is very passionate, joyful and tranquil.

Margaret Atwood’s father had died so, she is stuck in it. Father is like a cleat of the house. When her father died her house is like destroyed. Everythings has changed. Her profoundly know that how the feeling that losing something that can not find.

These lines from the poem reinforces the theme by stating the fact that we all die at some point. The lines also create imagery by illustrating the death that occurred on the Titanic and that it was one of a luxury. Lines six and seven also portray the scene of the ship and describes the many people that would all die together. Imagery reinforces the theme by adding a mental picture for the reader to think about as he or she continues to read the poem and tries to imagine the crash of the

For instance, readers are invited to question their lives as the poem says, “For that dash represents all the time that she spent alive on earth and now only those who loved her know what that little line is worth”. (9-12) This particular line invokes the reader to ask themselves what their “little line” is

The idea in the first stanza is the world being a stage, The second stanza compares humans to plants and how they eventually die and decay like plants, the third stanza expresses his concern for his lover/friend and

The theme of remembrance is constantly explored in literature. The poems ‘Piano’, ‘Poem at 39’ ’ are no exception to this. Piano and Poem at Thirty-Nine takes a slightly different approach to the theme, however Lawrence uses very strong and emotive language to convey a sense of nostalgia. . The mood of the poem is sad and nostalgic. Whereas‘Poem at Thirty Nine ’ adresses her relationship with his father , “how I miss my father”, she wants to return to the warmth and comfort of his childhood days .