Where had I heard this wind beforeChange like this to a deeper roar?
rehtorical queation
31 Matching Annotations
- Oct 2018
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frothy
reminds me of like a rabid, dangerous animal.
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frothy shore
imagery
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Word I was in the house aloneSomehow must have gotten abroad,Word I was in my life alone,
Epistrophe "alone" reinforces how lonely the speaker is.
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Word I was in the house aloneSomehow must have gotten abroad,Word I was in my life alone,Word I had no one left but God
anaphora- "word I"
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Word I had no one left but God.
antithesis
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use of full stop. there are three periods in the poems.
- first one talks about how life is short. and reminiscing of a time when he went through a tough situation.
- second talks about nature is not friendly towards the speaker.
- third, talks about his loneliness but shows his great faith in God.
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Where had I heard this wind before
the speaker fears what is coming.
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Holding open a restive door,
troubled past
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restive
(of a person) unable to keep still or silent and becoming increasingly difficult to control, especially because of impatience, dissatisfaction, or boredom. dictionary.com
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Leaves got up in a coil and hissed
personification: reinforces the man vs nature theme
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Sombre clouds in the west
storms originate in the west
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Robert Frost
He proposed and the girl said no. The speaker is running from the world after he lost the only person in the world who made the world worth living. now the speaker has has become paranoid about the dangers in the world.
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roar
“Roar” is used to show the threatening aspect of his surroundings. the concept of man vs nature continues through out the story.
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massed
like an army
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Word I was in the house aloneSomehow must have gotten abroad,Word I was in my life alone,Word I had no one left but God.
w sounds remind you wind.
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Bereft
“Bereft” is the past tense condition of “bereave” where one has been left by someone for whom he or she cares about.
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colon describes loneliness and isolation, like a lost
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Summer was past and the day was past.Sombre clouds in the west were massed
sibilance reminds you of hissing or leaves blowing in a wind.
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Summer was past
passive voice; putting it behind him
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Bereft
deprived of something.
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‘Out, Out—’
a simple, sad story of a young boy who slices his hand off while cutting wood in front of his house
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He lay and puffed his lips out with his breath.
boy accepted his death.
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Doing a man’s work, though a child at heart
Boy should not have been doing a mans work
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snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled,
onomatopoeia
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Out, Out—’
Out out brief candle, candle represents life, from macbeth
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He must have given the hand
Boy helping saw instead of the saw helping boy
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saws
Saw is personification does whatever it wants
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hyphen creates a dramatic and suspenseful effect
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yard
Alternation of 11 and ten line syllabes represents sawing
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The
work creates detachment and makes no space for emotion.
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