Parting at Morning Flashcards
The speaker’s purposeful and energetic tone best reflects the theme of
Duty
The speaker’s use of parallelism that blends the natural world with his own needs best reflects the theme of
Man and the natural world
The speaker uses what kind of point of view?
First-person
The rhyme scheme is best described according to what pattern?
ABBA
The sun being depicted as having human characteristics is an example of
Personification
The similar syntactical structures in lines 3-4 are examples of
parallelism
What does the informal repetition of “and” in lines two and three do?
It helps move the syntax along with the rhythm of a traveller impatient to arrive.
What is parting at morning?
Dramatic monologue
Who is the speaker of this poem, and how does he relate himself to nature?
The speaker of the poem is a man who is walking home after his endeavors with his lover. With the personification of the sun, it shows the reader and the sun on the same journey as they both start a new day. Also, this is shown as the ocean begins to stir.
What does the speaker have on his mind? What is his attitude in the beginning of the poem, and how does it change?
He is thinking about the night before with his lover, he is optimistic and in a dream like state, which is corrupted when he realizes he must return to the real world.
Where is the speaker, and how is his environment affecting him?
The speaker is outside, walking and observing all the nature that surrounds him. His environment affects him because he feels as though he is one with the environment, and the environment represents him.
Is this poem straightforward in its paraphrase and title, or is there a deeper meaning?
This poem is relatively straightforward. The title, “Parting At Morning”, is true to the poem of a man parting his lover during the morning hours, and each line says what it means. Overall, the poem is about how even though life can be great, our duties will always be waiting for us.
What is the overall theme of the poem, and how is this shown?
The overall theme of the poem is man connecting with nature, shown through the personification of the sun and the nature surrounding him, but also how this can be disrupted by aspects such as work and money.
Parting at morning consists of home many lines and how many stanzas?
This poem consists of four lines in one stanza.
What is the poem written in?
iambic-pentameter - a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable (the definition isn’t to patronise you, its because I keep for getting what iambic pentameter is ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) )
