Saturday, November 14, 2009

Literary terms in this speech?

Hey, so I have to write about literary terms in this speech... I need to focus on imagery and symbol, and have five others as well. Help please! I can only find a couple... the language confuses me.





There is a willow grows aslant a brook,


That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream;


There with fantastic garlands did she come


Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples


That liberal shepherds give a grosser name,


But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them:


There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds


Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke;


When down her weedy trophies and herself


Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide;


And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up:


Which time she chanted snatches of old tunes;


As one incapable of her own distress,


Or like a creature native and indued


Unto that element: but long it could not be


Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,


Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay


To muddy death.

Literary terms in this speech?
Hoar, meaning gray with age, usually refers to a person. In this speech it is referring to a tree.





Coronet is a crown. Here it is being used to describe a flower (this also happens in Andrew Marvell's poem called _The Coronet_)





Either the flowers or the willow is "clambering to hang" as if it were putting out effort to do something. Personification?





Trophies ... also referring to flowers





A brook (inanimate) is weeping (animation).





The willow is wearing clothes.





Simile: mermaid-like





The flowers lift up the tree (animation to an inanimate object)





The tree then CHANTs (more personification)





Simile: The tree is LIKE a creature ...








The tree's leaves, being wet, are heavy. The poet here pretends they are heavy because they drank something ... personification again?

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