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I read on of the questions concerning "Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead" which asked if I thought the poem had a tone of optimistic or pessimistic. Instead, I think that this poem has a tone of confusion, fear, and the lack of acceptance. This tone relates to the son because he seems afraid of death. By saying "I can't just say good-bye as cheerfully", the son expresses his sadness and unknowingness towards death. He does not yet accept death. He is not bashing on death. Rather, he is saying how he feels about his father accepting death and compares this to himself. He recognizes the fact that he is not ready at all. He still does not see it as a great thing. The juxtaposition of his father being happy to die and him being happy to live show that the tone of this poem displays the son's lack of acceptance towards death. The father has acceptance which strengthens the son's true feelings toward death. He is not negative towards death itself, but is negative towards how his father feels. He is making death somewhat depressing, but his father makes it seem like a good thing by saying "cheerefully" and "sureness of his faith".
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Chapter 10 Tone #3
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After reading "The Apparation", I found that the tone of the poem was one of vengence. This is due to both the imagery and the diction. The diction used in this poem adds a dark, angry scene. His anger transfers to the desire to haunt and make his once love's life. Some of these words are "sick, "wretch", "painfully", and "ghost". All of these words have a negative connotation. From this, I think that the poem is meant to reveal the speakers anger. It is almost like he is venting. In addtion to the diction, the imagery of the poem reveals the theme of vengence. When the speaker says "shall my ghost come to thy bed"(line4), the speaker is showing how he is following and haunting her. Also, he says that she will be "bathed in a cold quicksilver sweat"(line12). This image shows how afraid and frightened she will be of him. The way he words this stanza makes me think that he will enjoy her feeling this way because he is saying it in a biting way, like he doesn't care he would do this. Also, when he talks about her new guy, he is talking bad like no guy will ever be as good as him. He wants her to realize that her new guy cannot help her and if she had stayed with the speaker it would have all been fine.
After reading "The Apparation", I found that the tone of the poem was one of vengence. This is due to both the imagery and the diction. The diction used in this poem adds a dark, angry scene. His anger transfers to the desire to haunt and make his once love's life. Some of these words are "sick, "wretch", "painfully", and "ghost". All of these words have a negative connotation. From this, I think that the poem is meant to reveal the speakers anger. It is almost like he is venting. In addtion to the diction, the imagery of the poem reveals the theme of vengence. When the speaker says "shall my ghost come to thy bed"(line4), the speaker is showing how he is following and haunting her. Also, he says that she will be "bathed in a cold quicksilver sweat"(line12). This image shows how afraid and frightened she will be of him. The way he words this stanza makes me think that he will enjoy her feeling this way because he is saying it in a biting way, like he doesn't care he would do this. Also, when he talks about her new guy, he is talking bad like no guy will ever be as good as him. He wants her to realize that her new guy cannot help her and if she had stayed with the speaker it would have all been fine.
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