Poetry 2

Analysis of the poem
POEM
The poem communicates Memories of a lost lover.
THEME
The theme of the poem is about how losing someone can be detrimental to the people who loved him or her.
TECHNIQUES OR DEVICES USED
Imagery: There is the use of imagery to evoke the reader to get the visual picture of the scene (Herbert 1). In the first stanza, the poet uses the phrase “the well-tended garden” and the “fountain.”
Metaphor: The poet chooses to use certain phrases to communicate how powerful the pain of losing someone could become. The poet, for example, uses the phrase, “birds singing in ecstasy” to portray her sense of losing a person she valued in her life (Herbert 1).
Hyperbole: The author uses this technique to communicate the strength of her thoughts towards the subject matter. She says that” Fountain, birds, and grass were shaken by my thinking of your name.”
WORKING THESIS
Identifying the speaker of the poem and who she is addressing
The speaker is a woman in pain of losing someone she loved.
Identifying what the speaker is communicating
The speaker visits a place with a garden and a fountain, which was the last place she met his lover. She has good, but painful memories of her love.
How the poetic devices are used to communicate the message
The poet uses imagery, hyperbole, and metaphor to convey the message to the reader of the poem.
Analysis of why the writer wrote the poem the way he or she did
The writer uses imagery, hyperbole, rhyme, and metaphor to help communicate her message to the reader.

INTRODUCTORY PARAGRAPH
The poem revolves around a person who lost his love. The speaker misses the presence of his lover. She, therefore, decides to visit a garden which was the last place where they met before they parted ways. She finds the garden in the same condition it was during her last visit with his lover. The condition of the garden makes her remember the good times they had but also makes her feel pain, imagining that she will never see her lover again, yet other things will always remain the same. The poet uses imagery to provoke the emotions of the audience (Herbert 1). She makes the reader imagine the pain they would go through after losing someone, and life continues as if the person never existed.
Thesis: The speaker presents a poem that represents her individual feeling of love, and at the same time, her tone suggests that she is in pain of losing her loved one. The speaker’s use of hyperbole, imagery, and metaphor reflects her thoughts of hate towards nature for remaining the same despite her losing her lover.
Works cited
Herbert, Jillian. Flyers: including poetic devices. Buderim: Jillian Herbert, 2013. Print.