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A Leave - Taking by Algernin Charles Swinburne - Coggle Diagram
A Leave - Taking by Algernin Charles Swinburne
Context
Poem is highly emotive
Stark of painfull expression of both lost love and the human condition filled with suffering
Poem is about how a women has rejected the poets love and how now he feels alone and sad
Key language decives
Personification: the songs "my songs" they are his companions
Hyperbole: repetition of "all" shows melodrama
Similie: speaker shows his pain as "bitter as a tear" this also shows his advanced ego
Modal verbs: shows taht everything that has happened and how the poet is feeling was her choice as if he were to be blaming her
Mixture of past and present
Nature imagery persistent throughout
Key structural devices
Questions with immediate answers shows his desperation
Direct speaach: used to create sympathy, he does anything possible to get her attention
Alliteration
Anapohora shows his consistency to try and be with her
Same structure throughout makes it sound like a song with an uplifiting tone
6 septets
Iambic pentameter to give it a fixed rythm
Caesura - indicating obstacles that stop him from getting with her
Shits in tone
Gradually becomes more negative
No dramatic shifts
Last stanza is very reflective
Negative + bitter + sharp
Deeper meaning
Speaker is upset the woman he is addresing is not responding to his woos
Poet could be juding and discriminating lesbians
Poet could be having a dig at Petrarchan lovers
Topic areas for - How are strong emotions shown in the poem
Hyperboles + melodramtic language
Structure... repetition, rhyme for emphasis
Natural imagery + fertility