The Poplar-Field

The Poplar-Field

1. Line 1: "The poplar are felled" metaphor for life

2. Line 1: "felled, farewell" alliteration exageration of them falling really slow

3. Line 2: "whispering sound" auditory imagery

4. Line 2: "cool colonnade" alliteration

5. Line 3: "The wind plays no longer, and sing in the leaves" auditory imagery and personification

6. Line 7 & 8: "And...And" repetition, increases the pace of the poem

7. Line 11: "his melody charmed me before" oral imagery

8. Line 13: "years are all hasting away" personification

9. Line 14: "long lie as long" the 'l' slows down the pace of the poem

10. Line 14 & 15: "with a turf on my breast, and a stone at my head, Ere another such grove shall arise in its head" when he goes away another pair of trees will grow because that's what life is