"Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead, scribbling on the sky."
What is imagery?
100
"He was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week and my Sunday rest, my noon, my midnight, my talk, my song."
What is a metaphor?
100
"Funeral Blues" pertains to the being and life
What is existenialism?
200
Mournful, distraught and grieving
What is persona/tone?
200
"Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; for nothing now can ever come to any good."
What is hyperbole/overstatement?
200
The words "Silence", "coffin", "mourners" and "scribbling" create a mood of hopelessness
What is connotative diction?
200
Art comes from emotions, dreams and spiritual psyche
What is the Symbolist Movement?
300
Trying to cope with and understand the loss of the relationship
What is the situation?
300
Stop all the clocks, cut off the TELEPHONE,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy BONE,
Silence the pianos and with muffled DRUM
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners COME.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
Hopeless
What is the tone of the poem?
300
Idealized vs. realistic view of rustic life
What is the pastoral poetry?
400
The author himself or everyone who can relate to a breakup
Who is the audience?
400
This poem is a spoken verse that expresses great insight into the feelings of the speaker
What is dramatic monologue?
400
The coffin represents emotional death
What is a symbol?
400
Attempted to describe emotional reality and introduced the idea of prostitutes into poetry