Tareas
-Voice: From line 1-8, is first voice, because the poet is talking to himself expressing his owns thoughts.
In lines 9-14 the voice is thesecond, because the poet is addressing to somebody whom he calls “fair creature of an hour”.
-Mood: the mood is melancholy and impotence.
- Summary: The poet expressing his fears about hispremature death. Because of that, he won’t be able to write his work, having a wide knowledge in order to achieve great poetry and dying without having time to live a real love , up to the point thatfinally reacts devaluating both, love and fame.
Parts of the poem:
- First part: (1-4 line) the poet is describing his fears of dying before being able to write his work.
- Second part (5-8line) the poet talks about his fears dying witch are going to steal him the possibility of achieving the knowledge of great poetry.
- Third part (9-12 line) Fears because he will never see thegirl and never taste the unreflective love.
- Fourth part (13-14 line) the poet is alone in the edge of live and death and he is meditating about his destiny.
Topic: Fear of death and itsconsequences: not achieving great poetry and lasting love.
Metrical Aspects: all the poem is a Shakespearean sonnet with a regular rhyme. The fourteen lines of the poem are iambic pentameters. The poemhas classical pattern in rhyme ABAB/CDCD/EFEF and a couple which rhymes GG.
- Enjambment: (line 1 and 2) “cease to be”/ “before…”
- Personification and Metaphor (line 2) “my penhas glean”
- Anaphor lines2 and3) “Before…/ Before”
- Comparison (line 4) “hold like…”
- Metaphor (line 4) “full ripen´d grain” ( it is refered to idea)
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-Parallelism(line5)
- Personification (line 5) “Upon the night”…face
- Metaphor(line 6) huge doudy
- Metaphor: (line7 and 8)
- Metaphor: (line8) “hand of chance”
- Polisindeton...
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