Snaith School// Wife in London Poem quotes and brief explanation

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Rhyme Scheme
Emphasisng the depressive mood and emotion behind the poems message.
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"Fog hangs thicker"
Imagery provides the reader a sense of mourning and darkness. The words "fog" and "cold" illustrate winter, when the weather is dull and gloomy.
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"He-has-fallen in the far south land"
The use of euthmism allows the author to provides the reader with a less offensive way of a death.
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"Like a waning taper the street-lamp glimmers cold"
Similie compares the waning light of the street lamp to the life of the solidier that is fading away.
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"His hands whom the worm now knows"
The irony of the excitement of the return of the husband, but in fact the husband will never return.
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"Shaped so shortly"
Alliteration
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"She"
Symbolises the many women whos husbands have died in war.
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"Fog hangs thicker"

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Imagery provides the reader a sense of mourning and darkness. The words "fog" and "cold" illustrate winter, when the weather is dull and gloomy.

Card 3

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"He-has-fallen in the far south land"

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Card 4

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"Like a waning taper the street-lamp glimmers cold"

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Card 5

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"His hands whom the worm now knows"

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