Simile - using 'as' or 'like' to describe something.

Metaphor - something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else.

Alliteration -the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter.

Oxymoron - placing two words next to each other that either have an opposite meaning or are opposing words i.e. "living dead".

Onomatopoeia -a word that imitates or creates a sound within the poem i.e. 'hiss, slap and pop'.

Language - the system of linguistic signs or symbols considered in the abstract.


Tone - the feeling of poem, how the poem is read and how te reader portrays the sounds and feelings of the poem.

Diction - the usage of language.

Mood - a category of the verb or verbal inflections that expresses semantic and grammatical differences.

Song Highlighted

GO and catch a falling star,
Get with child a mandrake root,
Tell me where all past years are,
Or who cleft the devil's foot,
Teach me to hear mermaids singing,
Or to keep off envy's stinging,
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.

If thou be'st born to strange sights,
Things invisible to see,
Ride ten thousand days and nights,
Till age snow white hairs on thee,
Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,
All strange wonders that befell thee,
And swear,
No where
Lives a woman true and fair.

If thou find'st one, let me know,
Such a pilgrimage were sweet;
Yet do not, I would not go,
Though at next door we might meet,
Though she were true, when you met her,
And last, till you write your letter,
Yet she
Will be
False, ere I come, to two, or three.



Metaphor
Abrupt opening
The entire poem is questioning the morality and honesty of women thought the world.
Addresses men through out the poem.

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john donne poetry

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act 3 scene 4

Hamlet confronts his mother about her marriage to his uncle (also King hamlets murderer) and how quick it was. Hamlet compares the two brothers and explains how his father was a kind generous man who did what was best for the people and how he was a God. But on the other hand his brother is a tyrant who only became king though the murder of his brother and the marriage of his wife. Hamlet calls Claudius a devil and his mother mad. He claims that the devil inside of his uncle hath made her mad.

Queen Gertrude then interjects telling hamlet that he should not say such things though she knows that what he says is true. Hamlet continues to speak of how their marriage was against God. Eventually Gertrude stops him by saying that the words he speaks are like daggers in her ears (her husband was killed from poison in his ear).

act 3 scene 3

In this key scene Hamlet interrupts Claudius whilst he is praying. Claudius confesses that he cannot ask God for forgiveness, as he does not wish to give up the throne that he killed his brother for.

Hamlet moves into the room a short time after Polonius had left and Claudius had started to pray. Hamlet stands whilst Claudius is on his knees. Hamlet talks about how he knows that it was Claudius who had killed his father and that he will take revenge. But Hamlet tells Claudius that he will not kill him whilst he is praying because Hamlet does not want Claudius to go to heaven after he had killed Hamlets father.

When Hamlet leaves Claudius stands up and states that: “Words with out thought never to heaven go.” Showing that he may say that he is sorry for the murder of his brother and that he asks God for his forgiveness. But because he doesn’t really mean these words. God wont listen.

act 2 scene 3

Arguably the most famous of Shakespeare’s pieces. This particular piece shows the audience that Hamlet can act as a mad man. Whilst wondering around the castle Hamlet begins speaking to himself asking a simple question “To be, or not to be”.

Now the real question is what is hamlet talking about? To be what? Or not to be what? Is he really mad or is he just acting? Does he know that his uncle and Polonius can hear him?

Hamlet talks about heartbreak and again about suicide. The heartbreak of his fathers death along with him traveling to England and away from Ophelia. His grievance is most likely the reason for his constant reference to suicide. But as Hamlet had previously stated in his first soliloquy. And how one could not be let into heaven if they committed suicide.

Hamlet talks about weather it is better to fight against those who oppose him (kill his uncle for the murder of his father) or to accept all that has happened and accept that he will not be king whilst his uncle is still alive (go against his fathers wishes of revenge)