Comprehension:
Literary Example
Element
Speaker
(point of view)
Setting
(Time and
place)
1
Theme(s)
Tone
(poets
attitude)
Mood
(General
atmosphere)
a) Rhyme Scheme:
b) Imagery:
Lets Remember:
Imagery: Mental
c) Metaphor:
images created
using five senses
d) Alliteration: Allusion: A short
reference to other
works, history, art,
religion etc.
e) Personification:
Paradox:
Contradictory
f) Allusion: concepts that reveal
a
hidden/unexpected
g) Paradox: truth
h) Symbol:
i) Repetition:
2
C) Read the poem again and answer the following questions
using textual references:
1. How does the length of the poem contribute to the meaning?
2. What does the speaker mean when he says So Eden sank to grief
in line 6?
4. How does word choice (subside, go down etc.) affect the poem?
5. What do you think is the message the speaker wants to give to the
readers?
6. After reading the poem, have you changed your ideas about the
quotation All good things must come to an end? If so, how?