Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
An unnamed speaker narrates the poem.
Form and Meter
Iambic pentameter
Metaphors and Similes
A broken mirror in 'Days I Enjoy' is used as a metaphor to represent the speaker's past painful memories.
Alliteration and Assonance
Alliteration is in line, ‘Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens in the poem ‘Days I Enjoy.’
Irony
The irony is towards the end of the poem 'So It Ends' when the speaker thinks that the best option could have been killing her boyfriend instead of facing a humiliating breakup.
Genre
Love narrative poem
Setting
Sissinghurst Castle
Tone
Sad, reflective, disheartening, and sanguine
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is the narrator.
Major Conflict
In the poem ‘Days I Enjoy,’ there is a conflict between the speaker and those who force her to socialize. The speaker prefers to remain lonely and meditate about her life.
Climax
The climax comes in the poem, 'And So It Ends,' when the speaker breaks up with her lover, who claims that he wants to concentrate on serving God.
Foreshadowing
In the poem 'Beechwoods At Nole,' the speaker's beach memories are foreshadowed by her childhood.
Understatement
The unnamed speaker underestimates the possibility of being hurt by her lover.
Allusions
The poem 'And So It Ends' alludes to the possibility of betrayers in love.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
A nude knife is used as a metonymy for fearlessness.
Personification
The knife is personified as naked.
Hyperbole
The hyperbole is the line, 'Would slash me with a naked knife’ in the poem ‘And So It Ends.’
Onomatopoeia
N/A
