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After by Philip Bourke Marston - Coggle Diagram
After by Philip Bourke Marston
Context
Marston was blind due to the scarlett fever he had when he was 3 years old
The poem is adressed to an unseen listner and Mary Nesbit, his wife before she died of disease - must be the prime
The poem is intensively personal
Key language devices
Time adverbials - separate past and present
Sibilance soft "e" sound - euphony
"great grief" - emotive language / plosives / hyperbole
Similie - "like a ghost" - no longer alive
simple language - rawness of his pain
sensory imagery - touch / see/ hearing - hightens emotive nature of the poem
Deperation shown through verbs - "cling and sweep"
Person he wants is mentioned as you
Key structural devices
same rhyme in all the stanzas : ABBA
All stanzas have been endstopped - cycle of grief
Anaphora in 1st - on going suffering
Enjamnment connects before last stanza to the last one - overwhelming emotion
Repetition of "a little time"
Iambic rhythm - time passing - steady - iambic tetrameter
Semicolon: suffering on going
Catelexis - on the 3rd line - weak ending
long, long years - repetition creates hyperbole
shifts in tone
S3 + S4 - lonely + purposeless
S5 - emotive suffering - desperation
S2 - sense of remorse - dreams unfullied
S6 - Intense grief - going to last for ever
S1 - positive tone but with hints of negativety
deeper meaning of the peom
completly grief stricken
nothing to look forward to
The decription of imagery are relayed through other senses such as touch and hearing
imagery associated with touch
clinging - doesnt want to let go
kissing - pationate intimate
Topic areas
Diary structure shows journey of his grief
perceptual imagery to show intensity of his emotion
Tension between positive and negative
Structural features