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Nearing forty by Derek Walcott - Coggle Diagram
Nearing forty by Derek Walcott
Context
The poem shows how age blurs a poets imagination
The poem is about an insomniac listening to the rain and the cold which makes him shiver and therefore causes him to remeber his age
Inspired by sleepless nights of worrying and fear
Key language devices
Pathetic fallacy - rain and the weatehr
Personal pronouns - self critical of himself
Negative language - pesimis
Visual imagery - inspiration
Rain references - cynical
Simple refernces - contrast to the idea of complexity
Mathematical diction - makes him sound smart
Structural devices
One long scentence - shows how complicated his situation is - emotional outburts shows complexity
Irregular rhyme scheme shows a muddle up of ideas
Semicolon - caesura breaks up the rhythm and can be used to show a change in his thoughts or ideas
Enjabment - from start to finish
Shifts in tone
Negative all the way through
At the end there is a little ray of light and positivity
He thinks that not everything is as bad as we imagine
Deeper meaning
Despite negativity, creativity is always there
Things are not always as bad as we think
Topic areas - how is the speakers attitude towards "nearing forty" presented
Natural imagery to show that what he is going through is the 40s crisis and that uts a natural thing
Changing attutude - positivity at the end which juxtaposes the main idea creating irony
Negative diction to show cynisms and self-critisism