Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The poems are narrated from the perspective of a first person subjective narrator.
Form and Meter
The poems are written in an iambic pentameter.
Metaphors and Similes
The narrator compares his tears in the poem "Liquid Light’’ with the seas and oceans of the world. This comparison has the purpose of making the reader understand how the narrator suffered because of his loved one.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find alliteration in the line "With Mary's arboreal aplomb against a reminiscent blue.’’
Irony
No ironic element is present in the poems.
Genre
Meditative poems
Setting
The poem "Larksong’’ takes place on a field at the beginning of May.
Tone
The tone used in the poems is a depressing one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is the narrator and the antagonist is the lover that eventually leaves him.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in the poems is between life and death.
Climax
The poem "Larksong’’reaches its climax when the lark passes over the narrator and the ice melts.
Foreshadowing
The beginning of the poem "Anniversaries’’ opens with the narrator talking about the sky. This reveals the later revelation that the lover has died.
Understatement
No understatement can be found in the poems.
Allusions
In the poem "Larksong’’ the narrator alludes to the fact that a person can’t perceive their own pain in a healthy manner. The ones who are capable of perceiving the pain of others in the best way are those looking at it from the outside.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The narrator uses the term "anniversary’’ to make reference to the passing of time.
Personification
We find a personification in the line "nomadic day’’.
Hyperbole
We find a hyperbole in the lines "Sweet soul in the athletic rain/And wife now to the weather.’’
Onomatopoeia
We find onomatopoeia in the line "A laverock in its house of air is singing’’.
