3.2 The Waking: Attitude and Feeling of A Writer Towards His Subject
3.2 The Waking: Attitude and Feeling of A Writer Towards His Subject
3.2 The Waking: Attitude and Feeling of A Writer Towards His Subject
2 THE WAKING
THEMES In The Waking, the theme is The Circle of Our Lives. TONE In The Waking, the tone is sentimental.
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
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.
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.
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?"