Old Man
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- Created on: 11-05-15 13:41
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- Old Man (December 1914)
- 'in the name's there's nothing'
- absolute of nothing - complete certainty
- 'half decorate, half perplex'
- oxymoron - is it good or bad?
- shows his turmoil - he doesn't know how to feel about the name
- 'I like not, but for certain // I love it'
- juxtaposed - shows confusion
- strength of emotions - maybe he likes the memories but not the actual herb
- 'perhaps // thinking, perhaps of nothing'
- repetition of perhaps shows confusion
- idea of thinking of nothing - longing for simple days of no worries
- culture tells us to think before we act - Thomas may be longing for the days where you could live freely and old think of important things
- 'forbidding her to pick'
- destruction of nature by humans
- pronoun 'her' makes the two characters complete opposites - little girl v old man
- 'in spite of time'
- typical of Thomas to link to timing
- 'the bitter scent is lost'
- why does he want to find it if it is bitter?
- using human senses means the reader will respond to the poem in different ways - they aren't only hearing and seeing the poetry.
- 'and think of nothing: I see and I hear nothing'
- repetition of nothing shows how lacking he is.
- 'only an avenue, dark nameless, without end'
- metaphor for his memory - nothing left
- 'in the name's there's nothing'
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