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ABOUT THE WRITER: Refer to Walsingham DICTION: Sounds: AlliterationPLOSIVE SOUNDS: - P- ‘ play of passion’ , ‘play’, ‘playing’- emphasis on theatrical imagery - D- ‘ division’, ‘dress’, ‘drawn’ , ‘die’, comedy – not clustered together - T- The tiring, ‘ this’, ‘short’ - G- grave’ NASAL SOUNDS- melodious, theatre -‘ mirth the music’, ‘mothers’, ‘ marks’, ‘march’ LIQUID SOUNDS: -‘life’, ‘like’, ‘latest’, ‘ still’, plodding sounds ‘ play’, ‘playing’ SIBILANCE: - ‘ short’, ‘sharp spectator’, ‘ searching sun’ and sounds Assonance – ‘ sits and marks still’ –I- Death INTERPRETATION: What went after the play and before- abyss Adult memories- consciousness, darkness- unconscious ‘spectator’ links to script and angels Seems life is preplanned but ‘ spectator’ - free will Humourous- graveyards have a purpose- to save us from sun burns Tone is light and humorous- befitting a comedy ‘playing’ linked to ‘jest’ RHYME Scheme: AA/BB/CC/DD/EE- inevitability of death and the musical feel Type: Rhyming couplets FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE (images) Simile: ‘Our graves that hide us from the searching sun/ Are like drawn curtains when the play is done.’ Metaphor: Heaven- Metaphor of God Searching sun- appreciation Mother’s womb- preparation for life Analogy: A similarity between like features of two things, on which a comparison may be based LIFE- THEATRE LIFE- PLAY OF PASSION, all LAUGHTER- MUSIC OF DIVISION BEGINNING OF LIFE (WOMB) – TIRING HOUSES GOD- CRITICS, diction and alliteration GRAVE- CURTAINS (simile) Metahors Repetition: ‘ Our’ – ANAPHORA- gives it a universal point of view Juxtaposition/ Oxymoron: ‘hide’ and ‘search’ Rhetorical Question: At the beginning – anticipation and wonder Structure: Indentation: Inevitability of death Enjambment : JUST ONCE- ‘ Our graves that hide us from the searching sun/ Are like drawn curtains when the play is done.’ – Ending of life Caesura: ‘Our mothers’ womb// the tiring houses be’ ‘Heaven// the judicious sharp spectator is’ – 11 syllables ‘Thus// march we, playing, to our latest rest.’ Metre: Dropped syllable- instead of attiring- tiring houses Syllables are between 9-11, the lack of stability adds to the analogy of theatre Rhythm: SLOW PACED- Caesura, number of syllables (9-11) and ‘passion’, ‘ division’, ‘mother’, ‘comedy’, ‘ spectator’, ‘judicious’, ‘ searching’ , ‘earnest’ , very less enjambment IMAGERY Action/ Scene (Theatrical) -‘ tiring-houses’, ‘dressed’, ‘short comedy’, ‘jest’ , grave compared to curtains- ‘ Our grave that hides us from the searching sun’ , ‘Are like drawn curtains when the play is done’ - Dropped syllable, Simile, Metaphor -Nasal sounds and p – play Auditory- ‘music of division’ – intermission music Rhyme scheme, variety Examiner/God- ‘judicious sharp spectator’ with sibilance KI ‘sits and marks still who doth act amiss’ – Not involved in the affairs of man Time- critical, dominant, antagonist TONE AND MOOD At the beginning – anticipation and wonder Tone: JOYFUL, MELEDIOUS, MELIFICIOUS : Airy sounds, liquid sounds, sibilance sounds , plosive sounds Mirth, music, theatre imagery Rhyme scheme Anaphora Slow paced Melancholic: Last line, plosive sounds Enjambment THEMES Theatre life Refer to imagery and anology Passage of time: Enjambment, liquid sounds however not so much mention of it , assonance Writer’s point of view: Universal AUDIO RECORDING: http://ia700507.us.archive.org/14/items/life_1008_librivox/life_raleigh_dl.mp3