Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The poem ‘’A Walk’’ is told from the perspective of a first person subjective point of view.
Form and Meter
The poem ‘’Evening’’ is written in an iambic pentameter.
Metaphors and Similes
In the poem ‘’The Panther’’, the main character, the panther, is used here as a metaphor which stands for every person who at one point may feel trapped for one reason or another. the fact that we, as humans, are compared with a dangerous animal also has the purpose of transmitting the idea that we are more powerful we might think we are.
Alliteration and Assonance
We find an alliteration in the poem ‘’A Walk’’ in the line ‘’ going far ahead of the road I have begun’’.
Irony
N/A
Genre
‘’The Panther’’ is an allegorical poem.
Setting
The action in the poem ‘’Evening’’ takes place on a field in the middle of the night.
Tone
The tone in the poem ‘’A Walk’’ is a positive one, having the purpose of making the reader fell hopeful about the future.
Protagonist and Antagonist
In ‘’Sonnet 6’’, the antagonist is mankind and the protagonist is nature.
Major Conflict
The major conflict in the poem ‘’The Black Cat’’ is between sanity and insanity.
Climax
The poem ‘’The Panther’’ reaches the climax when the panther in the cage catches a glimmer of hope and is no longer feeling trapped in the cage.
Foreshadowing
The possibility of rain is foreshadowed in the first stanza of the poem ‘’Behind the Blameless Tress’’.
Understatement
In the beginning of the poem ‘’Evening’’, the narrator claims there is no one else awake in the middle of the night except form him. In the second stanza of the poem, this is proven to be an understatement as the narrator admits there are other people on the field watching the sky.
Allusions
At the end of the poem ‘’A Walk’’, the narrator claims that the feeling of hope for the future many feel can be compared with the wind. This comparison has the purpose of alluding the idea that hope is fleeting and often has no power to influence a person’s life.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The term ‘’bars’’ is used in the poem ‘’The Panther’’ as a general term to make reference to all the things which a person may experience and which may affect their lives to such a degree they fell trapped and limited in their actions.
Personification
We find personification in the poem ‘’A Walk’’ in the line "a gesture waves us on’’.
Hyperbole
We find hyperbole in the poem ‘’The Panther’’ in the line "rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles’’.
Onomatopoeia
We find onomatopoeia in the line ‘’him praise signet ring’’ in ‘’Sonnet 6’’.
