Loves Philosophy
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A deeper look at this poem
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Figurative Devices
1.Imagery- First stanza is filled with images to give the reader a visual sense, oceans with the rivers, winds in the heavens.
Second Stanza- gives imagery of waves hitting each other, the sun lighting up the earth, moonbeams on the water
2. Personification; The moonbeams kiss the sea (Line 6, Stanza 2)
- The moonlight shines onto water which is reflected and can be seen, the moon "kisses" the water
3. Personification; The mountains kiss high heaven (Line 1, Stanza 2)
- Mountains are high into the sky, heaven is perceived to also be up in the sky, in the clouds, the mountains are supposedly touching heaven
4. Rhetorical Question: "Why not I with thine?" (Stanza 1, line 7), " What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?" (Stanza 2, Line 7)
Both of these questions aren't meant to be answered. It is a way to express my love in a way to sort of make the girl feel a little guilty that there is so much love in the world but it is not between us. It is used as a method to get someone to think and to react mentally.
5. Metaphor: "No sister flower could be forgiven if it disdained its brother" (Stanza 2, Line 3) No man should ever go against another man, a man for a man. This is referring to the humans as a flower.
6. Hyperbole: "Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine" (Stanza 1, Lines 4-5". This is an exaggeration of the actual statement because not everything in the world has a match, it is saying that by law nothing is single but that is clearly not 100% true. This hyperbole is used to prove to the girl that everything should have another half, and that half should be her.
1.Imagery- First stanza is filled with images to give the reader a visual sense, oceans with the rivers, winds in the heavens.
Second Stanza- gives imagery of waves hitting each other, the sun lighting up the earth, moonbeams on the water
2. Personification; The moonbeams kiss the sea (Line 6, Stanza 2)
- The moonlight shines onto water which is reflected and can be seen, the moon "kisses" the water
3. Personification; The mountains kiss high heaven (Line 1, Stanza 2)
- Mountains are high into the sky, heaven is perceived to also be up in the sky, in the clouds, the mountains are supposedly touching heaven
4. Rhetorical Question: "Why not I with thine?" (Stanza 1, line 7), " What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?" (Stanza 2, Line 7)
Both of these questions aren't meant to be answered. It is a way to express my love in a way to sort of make the girl feel a little guilty that there is so much love in the world but it is not between us. It is used as a method to get someone to think and to react mentally.
5. Metaphor: "No sister flower could be forgiven if it disdained its brother" (Stanza 2, Line 3) No man should ever go against another man, a man for a man. This is referring to the humans as a flower.
6. Hyperbole: "Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine" (Stanza 1, Lines 4-5". This is an exaggeration of the actual statement because not everything in the world has a match, it is saying that by law nothing is single but that is clearly not 100% true. This hyperbole is used to prove to the girl that everything should have another half, and that half should be her.
Voice: Dramatized, use of I, referring to themselves
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