Tone/theme
What is the tone?
Heartbreak, delusion, love
What influenced her poetry?
Her mental illnesses.
Name the diction choice we talked about.
Bewitched.
The idea of love can lead to heartbreak and delusion causing madness to take over.
Why did she create this poem?
The anguish of waiting for a lover who never arrives.
What does bewitched mean in this poem?
She realizes that love was always just an illusion.
How does the theme relate to her history?
Because of the traumatic events she experienced, during her life.
What happened in her childhood that caused her lasting trauma?
Her dad died when she was eight.
What is one allusion in this poem?
It alludes to satan and God.
How does the tone relate to the poem/author?
The tone reflects on the author's harsh past of betrayal.
List the mental illness and disorder she suffered from.
Depression and delusion.
What was the purpose of the allusion that is used?
Two emotions are represented here which shows the speaker to engage the idea of depression. God is like the happiness that no longer exists, but hell's fire is her pain that is being created.