Remembrance

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Ephesians 2:5-6

luonut Tim Lovegrove

ELISABETHAN ERA

luonut Elena Corelli Grappadelli

Their Eyes Were Watching God

luonut Alicia danley

Fast Break

luonut Justin Owen Cruz

Remembrance

Structure

To new resolve to carry on without him

Moves from self-dout over her faithfullness to her dead husband

Eight 4 lined verses

Form

A lyrical, elegy or lament

Theme

Despair

Remembrance and moving on

Getting over the death of a loved one

Love

Separation and loss

Language and imagery

Dramatic use of punctuation - ? ! - to show th strength of the poet's feelings

Oxymorons - 'rapturous pain' 'divinest anguish' - the joy and pain of memory

Personification of despair

Presonification of time as an unstopable wave

Repetition - 'cold' 'severed' 'hopes' 'bliss' - emphasises the effect of death

Second half - softer hymn like - 'bliss' 'rapturous'

First half - hard, harsh words - 'cold' 'sever' 'suffereing'

Tone

Ultimate tone - determined, certainty, courage, stoicism, strength of will and purpose

Then - loving, tender, fond, and passsionate

First - questioning and doubtful

Varies - mirrors poet's emotions

Rhythm and rhyme

Feels like an outpouring of emotions

Hymnal

Slow, sobre and regular