Poetry

• I was angry with my friend

  I was angry with my foe


  Juxtaposition- friend and foe are completely opposing ideas this emphasis's how he is angry at everything and everyone

  Personal pronoun shows how his anger is personal and the repetition makes it seem as if it is still growing
• And I water'd it in fears

  Night and morning with my tears


  Metaphor- shows that he is making it grow

  Suggests that his anger never stops growing and that it is all consuming and controlling
• And it grew both day and night

  Till it bore an apple bright


  Religious imagery and refers to Eve stealing from the Garden of Eden from the tree of life in the book Exodus

  The apple looks positive but inside it is poisonous because it grew out of anger. It is quite deceiving.
• In the morning glad I see

  My foe outstretched beneath the tree


  He has killed his enemy which shows how evil the narrator is.

  The narrator is very villainous because he is happy and joyful to see his foe is dead.
• So now I moan an unclean thing

  Who might have been a dove


  Dove has connotations of purity which suggests that the nobleman has ruined her by taking her virginity.

  Unclean shows that it is not right and it should not happened.
• To lead a shameless shameful life


  Shows how society think of her as an embarrassment but she does not view herself as that.

  Oxymoron shows how confused and conflicted about the situation.
• Your love was writ in sand


  Shows how Kate's love is just temporary and is not genuine like her.

  The metaphor suggests that the only reason Kate loves him is for the money and wealth so one day her love will fade away just like when the waves wash the things you write and build in the sand at the beach.
• My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride


  The only thing she has over Kate is the nobleman's son.

  Suggests that while other people may find it a shame and embarrassment she finds her son as her pride and a gift from the nobleman.
• Half a league


  To make it sound as if horses are galloping because they were on horseback which gives the reader a vivid image of what is happening.
• Into the valley of death


  Repetition and Metaphor suggests the location of the battle.

  The soldiers are riding into their death and they can't escape their impending doom.
• Someone had blunder'd

  Theirs not to make reply

  Theirs not to reason why

  Theirs but to do and die


  Blunder means that a mistake has been made so someone had told set them up against the Russian troops.

  The rhyme emphasizes the soldiers duty right despite being aware of the blunder.

  They can't turn away because they will be killed and if they go back then people will be ashamed of them.
• Into the jaws of death

  Into the mouth of hell


  Personification= swallowed by the enemy and can not escape

  Makes the enemy look like monsters and the soldiers are their prey.
• People eat sleep love normally

  while I seek out the tragic the absurd

  to make a subject

  Triplets= they do normal activities and have happiness hence the love

  People have no idea what happens behind the scenes
• I took a pair of peach, sun-glided girls

  rolling, sill-crumpled, on the grass in champagne giggles


  High class lifestyle so happy and fun

  Champagne suggests expensive and rich
• a small girl staggering down some devastated street


  Shes injured weak unable to walk

  Something bad has really happened as the street is war-torn
• Instinct prevailing, she dropped her burden

  and mouth too small for her dark scream


  Makes her seem evil

  The child is her burden and it is a noun and it is what is keeping her from escaping

  Shows how loud her scream was and the person was shocked that sound came from her mouth
• Even in hell the human spirit triumphs over all

  Even in war humans choose themselves over others but they do not have choice
• I am born academic

  By dey got me on de run


  Assume that he is sporty because of his skin colour.

  He has no choice but to do what people tell him to do and is treated like an animal as he has no choice.
• Yu put me in a pigeon hole

  They make him feel small and trapped.

  So he can not make decisions for himself and they make him feel like he is animal so he is inhumane.
• I have no chips on me shoulder


  Hes got worry's and concerns about his future.

  Unsure on how to feel or he is careful and cautious on the way he acts
• An juss fe de record

  Sum of me best friends are white.


  Mocking the white people who are racist but justify themselves by saying Oh I've got a black friends