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Refusal To Mourn Death - Coggle Diagram
Refusal To Mourn Death
Structure of poem
Element
Rhyme scheme
ABCABC
Rhyme
making/breaking, flower/hour, darkness/harness, round/sound, bead/seed, corn/mourn, death/breath, murder/further, truth/youth, daughter/water, friends/thames, mother/other
Stanza
4 stanzas
Tone/ mood
Sad
Theme
Death, lament
Meaning of figurative languages in poem
Imagery
The poem is filled with vivid imagery, such as "the dark veins of her mother", "the riding Thames", and "the majesty and burning of the child's death"
Metaphor
"Shall I let pray the shadow of a sound Or sow my salt seed In the least valley of sackcloth to mourn". Salt seed is a metaphor for tears or grief, and valley of sackcloth symbolizes a place of mourning.
Personification
"Tells with silence the last light breaking": Silence is personified as telling something.
"the sea tumbling in harness": The sea is personified as something that can tumble and be harnessed
Genre
Narrative
The poem reflects on the dark reality of the city of london during the 1945 german air raids. the story mourns the death of a young victim
Type
Elegy
Main idea
Summarizing
By summarizing the text the key parts of the text suggest that the main idea relates to the death of a young victim
Synthesizing
By using synthesizing I know that the main idea relates to the past conflict of ww2. I can confidently say that the poem's main idea is about mourning the deaths of ww2 bombings on London
Identify how the poet uses a certain point of
view to narrate a subject matter in the poem.
The poet uses "I" throughout the poem makes the poem feel more deep and meaningful in a personal level. The poet is not just reflecting on a child's death but how the speaker can handle the situation. "I shall not murder
The mankind of her going with a grave truth"