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| Will You Marry Me?. by joseph1832(m): 1:34pm On Jan 13, 2016 |
I tell her I need her, just like the Earth need the Sun to survive. She ask me just how; can the Earth need the Sun to survive?, Then I tell her, can a man, real' survive without 'civic woman?. |
| Re: Will You Marry Me?. by joseph1832(m): 1:35pm On Jan 13, 2016 |
ANALYSIS OF THE POEM BACKGROUND: The background is centered around a man who wants to propose to a woman, both of them were sitting on a beach alone, appreciating the beauty of nature and watching the Sun set with the water playing with their feet. PLOT: The plot focus on a man expressing his love, desire and need to be forever with the woman of his dreams, but instead of expressing this love, desire and need literally by asking her to marry him, he decides to express it figuratively, using the Sun and the Earth as metaphors. He expresses this by using himself as the Earth and his fiancée as the Sun, stating that without the Sun, the Earth can't survive, that is without his fiancée, he won't be able to survive because his fiancée symbolizes everything a good woman is to a man, that is: wife, mother, goddess and sex. The word 'civic' as used in the poem mean a woman who knows her right and duties in taking care of her home and her man. STRUCTURE: The poem follow the strict structure of the Korean poem called Sijo. The poem consist of just one stanza written in three lines with the syllable structure of 16-14-16, which makes it a total of 46 syllables. The poem did not use any particular rhyme scheme and it did not follow any particular feet or meter structure. POETIC DEVICE: Metaphor: Explicitly used in line 1 of the poem. Symbolism: Used in line 1 and 2 of the poem, that is, the Sun and the Earth, used as symbols which stand for the woman and the man. Repetition: The pronoun 'her' and 'I' were repeated in line 1 and 3, three times in the poem. Elision: Used in line 3 of the poem to adhere to the syllable structure of the poem. End-Stopped Line: This is used at the end of every line of the poem. Palindrome: Used in the third line of the poem. The word 'civic' represent that. Rhetorical Question: Used in the third line of the poem. Tone: The tone of the poem is that of love and joy. THEME: Love Joy Desire Happiness Appreciation Expectation. 1 Like |
| Re: Will You Marry Me?. by Olakunle007(m): 4:24pm On Jan 13, 2016 |
Nice one. You've taught something with your write. |
| Re: Will You Marry Me?. by Nobody: 5:03am On Jan 14, 2016 |
 beautiful in its simplicity  Thank you for the analysis |
| Re: Will You Marry Me?. by joseph1832(m): 7:41am On Jan 14, 2016 |
Olakunle007:Oh yeah? Please what did I teach you? I'm curious. Nubian113:Hmm. You're welcome. |
| Re: Will You Marry Me?. by Olakunle007(m): 9:31pm On Jan 15, 2016 |
[quote author=joseph1832 post=41956423]Oh yeah? Please what did I teach you? I'm curious. Your analysis is more or less a compass |
| Re: Will You Marry Me?. by joseph1832(m): 9:42pm On Jan 15, 2016 |
Olakunle007, Oh. Well glad I can point you in the right direction. |
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