Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The poem “Remorse for any Death” is recalled from the perspective of a third person objective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem “Shinto” is written in free form and as such does not have a fixed form and meter.
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem “Limits” the narrator uses the road as a metaphor for life. The metaphor is used here to represent the way in which life can be extremely hard and how at times there can be hurdles appearing in the middle of someone’s life which can make the act of moving forward extremely difficult and complicated.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find an alliteration in the poem “Shinto” in the lines “a book we thought we lost”
Irony
N/A
Genre
The poem “Remorse for any Death” is a meditative poem on death and the nature of life.
Setting
The action “To a Cat” takes place inside an undefined room in the distant past.
Tone
The tone used in the poem “Limits” is a neutral one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist in the poem “Limits” is the narrator while the antagonist is the passing of time.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in “That One” is between love and loss.
Climax
The poem “To a Cat” reaches its climax when the narrator and his lover get together and find happiness together.
Foreshadowing
The title of the poem “Elegy” foreshadows the religious tone used in the poem.
Understatement
The narrator claims in the first lines of “That One” how most people have one soul mate they meet once in their lives. This is however an understatement as the narrator later claims a person who loses the person they believed they have met their one should not be discouraged and keep in mind there will be other important people who will came in their lives.
Allusions
In the poem “Remorse for any Death”, the narrator discusses the nature of death and the way in which death affects everyday life. The narrator alludes through this poem the idea that death does not really exist but rather only a construct which is man-made. The narrator claims death is just the absence of life and as a result, it is not something which should be feared.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
We have a metonymy in the poem “Shinto”, a poem in which the narrator mentions deities. The term is used here as a general term to make reference the things we sometimes ignore but still have the power to influence our lives.
Personification
We find a personification in the line “humble windfalls” in the poem “Shinto”.
Hyperbole
We find a hyperbole in the poem “Remorse for any Death” in the line “the dead man is not a dead man: he is death”.
Onomatopoeia
The line “mirrors are completely silent” in the poem “To a Cat” contains onomatopoeia.
