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Now let no charitable hope by Elinor Wylie - Coggle Diagram
Now let no charitable hope by Elinor Wylie
Context
Sad and hopeless poem of being without love in ones life
The speaker shuts down any hopes and dreams of ever finding a lover and considers herself alone in the world
In contrast it shows how she felt this way eventhough she had marriges and affairs
Key language devices
Metaphor - to describe feeling of hopelessness and despair
Personification - to give human qualities to abstarct concepts
Repetition - to show rhyth and flow
Imagery - to creare atmosphere and emotion
Irony: to create contrast with the speakers current situation and what they believes
Key Structural devices
Stanzaic structure - gives a sense of balance and order in contrast to the chaoes of the actual ideas and emotions shown in the poem
Enjambment - to create a sense of fluidity and progression as well as continuity
Repetition - unity + cohesion in the poem
Punctuation - creates pauses and breaks the text - used to organise the poets emotions due to the fact that its an outburst
Shifts in tone
Initial desparing tone - bleak + hopelessness
Progression turns into a defeated tone - the speaker becomes defited and resigned
Sardonic - bitter tone
Resigned - the poet accepts defeat + fate as well as their current situation
Deeper meaning of the poem
Loneliness - no love
Speaker trapped in society and wants to escape
Topic Areas - how does the title of the poem link to the deeper meaning
The cold and hard reality the speaker has to face daily being a women in the 18th century
How the speaker gained strength + fighting with hardship + courage and dignity to get to where she has
Speaker dreams of escaping society