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HELA Reading Comprehension - Coggle Diagram
HELA Reading Comprehension
Structures
Consists of three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet.
The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
Each line is composed in iambic pentameter, which means it has five feet per line, with each foot having two syllables accented weak-strong.
Main Ideas
The speaker uses metaphors to describe his old age.
Reading strategy
Summarizing
Keywords
Keywords help us find the important parts of the poem and helps us understand the poem better.
Summarizing helps us create a conclusion of the information from the poem and understand it better.
Point of view
first-person point of view
The speaker reflects on their own aging and mortality, using metaphors to convey the passage of time and the impermanence of life.
Figurative language
Metaphors
Twilight of such day: Represents old age, akin to dusk after sunset.
Death-bed: Suggests the final stage of life, where vitality wanes.
Yellow leaves: Symbolize aging and the passage of time.
The poem I choose
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
Structures of the poem
Genre
Lyric
Type of poem
Sonnet
Theme and mood
The theme is the process of aging
The mood is compassion, love and empathy