March
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- March (April 1914)
- 'Now I know that spring will come again'
- Symbolising the end of war - they thought that war would be over by Christmas.
- Certainty of spring shows passion and longing for better days
- 'Perhaps tomorrow'
- Faith that something will happen but no idea when or how - blind faith.
- 'cold burning // of hail and wind'
- oxymoron - cold burning - shows his emotional termoil
- enjambment creates a pause which implies that Thomas can't think properly in the wind and hail.
- 'the primroses // torn by the hail'
- something delicate is destroyed by nature - showing that nature has a dark side
- enjambment symbolises the destruction - even the poem is broken
- 'sun filled earth'
- happiness filling life
- links to his depression - the sun is joy
- 'the mighty sun wept tears of joy'
- nature feels emotions too - therefore, we shouldn't be destroying it
- Thomas may have wrote this because he felt war was destroying nature - to a 21st century reader it could be to do with global warming.
- personification of the sun
- nature feels emotions too - therefore, we shouldn't be destroying it
- 'quiet as the primoses'
- simile - delicate and ascetically pleasing
- nature imitating other nature - all interconnected - we have removed ourselves from nature
- 'cared not what they sang or screamed'
- oxymoron - nature is so wide a diverse, it cannot be classified by humans
- 'hoarse or sweet or fierce or soft'
- polysyndetic - Thomas understands that there are so many options - so much life of different variations
- 'Now I know that spring will come again'
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