Rotation 7, blog 1

Rotation 7, blog 1
“Final Love Note” Clare Rossini
-made up of three stanzas
-feels more like a story when read aloud
-need the next line for the idea to make sense (enjambed)
-the second line on the poem the letter “e” is repeated (internal alliteration):
“Never touching. Yet your shade commingled.”
-doesn’t seem like there is a real beat in the poem
-has a euphony feel to it:
“Pure – green, wooden – hearted, all your leaves moved/ summer – long, then suddenly caught fire.”
-the last part of this example, “suddenly caught fire” seems to change the vibe to cacophony
-the words before are pretty and light and then the word fire is a drastic change
-“My heart beats. Then a dull thunder shakes the house” – auditory – gives off a sense of a heart beating really hard, as if someone else can hear it
-the thunder you can hear during a storm
-but, it seems contradictory because it says a “dull thunder” yet it shakes the house  a dull thunder couldn’t do something this intense
-“yet it shakes the house” hyperbole
-“dull thunder”  understatement
Tone: seems like lonely and sad
“In winter I endured your silences” and “right out of my lilies, while you, elm, died on –”
-even though in a sense this poem seems like a person is being talked about because there is a line that says, “As human lovers do,” this poem seems to be about a tree in this persons front yard
Simile: “never tiring/ as human lovers do.”
-comparing the sounds this tree makes to a pair of lovers
At the end of the poem: “I hear the chain saw cry out ecstatically.”
-saying how this chain saw is excited about cutting down the tree
“Your many arms are falling”  all the branches on the tree  personification



“Neutral tones” Thomas Hardy page 241
Has a rhyme scheme
First stanza: 1 and 4 lines have end rhymes
-2 and 3 lines have end rhymes
Second stanza: 1 and 3 lines has slant rhymes “rove and love”
-2 and 4 lines has slant rhymes “ago and love”
Third stanza: 1 and 4 lines have end thymes
-2 and 3 lines have end rhymes
Fourth stanza: 1 and 4 line has end rhymes “deceives and leaves”
-2 and 3 lines have end rhymes “me and tree”
-made up of four stanzas
Visual imagery: “And the sun was white”
“And a pond edged with grayish leaves”
“Starving sod”
Assonance: “And a few leaves lay on the starving sod; / they had fallen from an ash, and were gray.”
Good diction choice: “your eyes on me were as eyes that rove”  makes the reader think a lot
-the next line: “Over tedious riddles of years ago”  paints a picture for the reader of how someone is looking at this person with wandering eyes, as if they can’t hold the other persons gaze
-good amount of punctuation usage
-the lines don’t need the next line to make sense
“They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.”
-the sound of the language seems to be euphony
-“and some words played between us to and fro/ on which lost the more by our love.”
-seems to change to cacophony towards the last stanza: “your face, and the god- curst sun, and a tree”
-the line: “Alive enough to have strength to die”  opposites
-makes the reader think a little more about what the writer is exactly talking about
-not a straightforward poem