3.2 The Waking: Attitude and Feeling of A Writer Towards His Subject

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3.

2 THE WAKING
THEMES In The Waking, the theme is The Circle of Our Lives. TONE In The Waking, the tone is sentimental.

Themes: The central thought of the poem.

Tone is the attitude and feeling of a writer towards his subject.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow" and "I learn by going where I have to go.

This poem uses the various poetics sound devices such as alliteration, rhyme, rhythm, assonance

POEM: THE WAKING By Theodore Roethke

Dies is perpetuated by the cycle of life, so that the worlds of the living and the dead are never fully separate.

We can follow the movement of waking and going, waking and going, until we feel like a leaf caught in the current of the lines and the words.

4) Rhythm The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.


"I hear my being dance from ear to ear."

MESSAGE Mood is the emotional attitude the WRITERS MOOD Message: What the poem is trying to say by the things that happen in the poem.
1) Time is precious and goes by quickly; do not be in a rush to grow up.

author takes towards her subject.


Mood in this poem is Melancholic. Melancholic are characterized by the element of Earth. In this poem, it relates to the nature of the world and appreciating life.

5) The journey we take to attain that knowledge is the most important part of our life process.

LITERARY DIVICES

1) Alliteration - The repetition of consonant sounds within close proximity, usually in consecutive words within the same sentence or line. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear

4) Use our time on Earth wisely to uncover the truths of our own spirit as well.

2)

Internal rhyme - The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. I hear my being dance from ear to ear I wake to sleep and take my waking slow

2) You will have to face your fears sometime so try to conquer them and be brave in doing so.

3) You learn by going; without experiencing something yourself, you cannot truly identify with it.

3) Paradox- A statement containing two diametrically opposite ideas. "We think by feeling. What is there to know?"

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