One flesh
- Created by: Kayla Follett
- Created on: 08-04-16 15:38
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- One Flesh
- Structure
- 3 stanza's, 6 lines in each one
- Rhyming scheme
- Irregular rhyming scheme.
- Title
- Marriage, always one, one body
- Contrast to what the peom is actually about
- Lanuage
- Metaphor
- "time itself's a feather"
- Contrasting lanuage
- "Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion
- "strangely apart, yet strangely close together"
- Frequent juxtaposition
- Simile
- "She like a girl, dreaming of childhood"
- Metaphor
- Theme
- Separation
- Passion will die
- "former passion"
- Broken marriage
- "it is like a confession"
- Nothing being done
- "it is as if they wait some new events"
- Imagery
- Separation
- Two separate beds
- "Each in separate beds"
- Tone
- Sad, negative
- Negative image of older couples
- "former passion"
- "dreaming of childhood"
- Meaning
- A child speaking about there parent's loss of relationship
- "Whose fire from which I came"
- "my mother and father"
- Speaking in 3rd person
- A child speaking about there parent's loss of relationship
- Structure
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