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On his Blindness

"when i consider how my light is spent"=how he spent his life, how his sight is used up.

"ere half my days"=before my life is over

"in this dark world and wide"=alliteration, blind

talent=money, servant that buries his talent is considered lazy and receives nothing.

"though my soul more bent to serve there with my Maker"= desires to serve God. soul more bent -metaphor.

my true account"/worth wants to show he has used talents wise.

chide=scold

does God demand day labour with without sight?

"i fondly ask"=foolishly ask

but Patience prevents him from saying something stupid=personification.

God doesnt need anything to be happy, not mans work or his gifts.

yoke=burden

"they also serve who stand and wait"=paradox reflects on his blindness.

the world is too much with us.

worldly philosophy.

"late and soon"=we are too materialistic, spend time and energy in this way.

"getting and spending"=wealth and posessions.

"we lay waste our powers"=natural energies talents.

we are alienated to nature

"sordid boon"=worthless gift cheap shameful.

sea=woman

moon=lover personification

"out of tune"=mankind too busy to even notice these things of nature.

"suckled"=closeness

"creed outworn"=set of beliefs

lea=grass

forlorn=sad

proteus=protector who is difficult to see.

triton=symbolising ideal union between mankind and nature: halfman half dolphin.

when i have fears

Because I could not stop for death

lines1-4:

he thinks about the possibility of dying before he has accomplished his 3 desires:

1)being able to write down all the poetry with wich his brain is teeming.

2)express in poetic form him passionate response to nature :what he feels/observes.

3)to be able to look upon love/indulge a woman.

expresses fear of death in"cease to be"

Gleaned=sustained metaphor=picking up poor bits of grain while harvesting.Garners=grain store that stores fullripened grain.

he wonders if his pen will have a chance to harvest the rich poetry.

he compares his ideas in his brain with a field of grain which he hopes will have time to be harvested.

charactery=letters,marks etc.

creates a pun.

lines 5-8:

he identifies himself with the romantic movement.

Based on an observation of nature.

starred face=wordplay=scarred face.

he sees drama and romance in the billowing clouds.

he knows nature is a source of endless poetic inspiration.

the imminence of death assiles him again,he dreads he maynot live long enough to write down what he feels/observes.

'the magic hand of chance' is the hand that writes the poem.

lines 9-14

"unreflecting love" when someone reflects it comes back. keats apears to be content with it.

lines 12-14

contains climax of poem.

realises one truth:when one comtemplates ones mortality, one stands entirely alone. on the shore of the world with the sea as death=the great unknown before one. then all ones desires for fame and love SINK to nothingness.

Mending wall

notes

poem for my mother

"that isnt everything" questions poems relevance.

"Hunched" task is a chore and not enjoyable

contrast between mother and daughter

"shrivelled burnt granadilla skin=metaphor

long period of time in water assosciated with hard work.

"slid like a ball" =simile

uses papeer(soap) to wash clothes.

she feels poem has been devalued.

"grabbed and used"=harsh attitude.

her attitude is not gentle as one would expect from a mother.

"a poem isnt all there is to life" emphasizes mothers attidue.

"blue ringedgaze" tired and overworked

looking over my shoulder= cursory gaze.

"and my words being clenched smaller and

smaller" like used soap, her poem is being reduced to nothing.

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