To The Night Flashcards

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Style and Structure

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  • Lyrical in nature - set to music
  • Attention drawn to shorter lines in stanzas
  • Third stanza modulates rhythm of the poem to prevent it from becoming frenzied
  • Repetition used sparingly at first but increases
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Figures of Speech

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  • Personification - poem directly addresses the night
  • Day is personified in 2 + 3
  • Apostrophe - Addressing abstract objects as if they were animate
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Night

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  • Could be a metaphor for the speaker’s lover whom he can only meet with at night
  • Power lies in the juxtaposition of night and day (west vs east)
  • 3- contrasting descriptions of Night and Day. Night is positive while Day is negative
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