1) who's the speaker and who's speaking to?
The poet is the speaker and he is talking to himself.
2) type of vocabulary (loving, violent, angry, etc)The type of vocabulary in this poem is Nostalgic and melancholic.
3) Alliterations, metaphors, comparisons, assonances, personifications (that is to say any literary figure you find in it)
The literary figures are:
Metaphor:
when I Shin'd in my Angel-infancy!
Could see a glimpse of His bright face:
But a white celestial thought
When on some gilded cloud, or flow'r,
And in those weaker glories spy
Some shadows of eternity:
But felt through all this fleshly dress
And tread again that ancient track!
But ah! my soul with too much stay
Is drunk, and staggers in the way!
And when this dust falls to the urn,
Personification:
Or taught my soul to fancy aught
And in those weaker glories spy
Before I taught my tongue to wound
And when this dust falls to the urn
Assonance:
When on some gilded cloud, or flow'r,
My gazing soul would dwell an hour,
Rhymes:
Before I understood this place
Appointed for my second race,
Or taught my soul to fancy aught
But a white celestial thought:
When yet I had not walk'd above
A mile or two from my first Love,
And looking back--at that short space--
Could see a glimpse of His bright face:
Before I taught my tongue to wound
My Conscience with a sinful sound,
Or had the black art to dispense
A several sin to ev'ry sense,
But felt through all this fleshly dress
Bright shoots of everlastingness.
O how I long to travel back,
And tread again that ancient track!
That I might once more reach that plain
Where first I left my glorious train;
From whence th' enlightned spirit sees
That shady City of Palm-trees.
But ah! my soul with too much stay
Is drunk, and staggers in the way!
Some men a forward motion love,
But I by backward steps would move;
And when this dust falls to the urn,
In that state I came, return.
4) what's the poem about? (love, hate, faith, life, death)
The poem is about life because the poet talk about his own life (He remembered the things that he did during all his life) and death because he known that he will died.
5) your opinion about the poem.
In my opinion, it is a difficult poem, but it is very interesting, because I think that everybody will face this moment between life and death, for that reason, this poem helped me to analyze my life and think what I am doing for me and for my environment.
I also felt that the writer didn’t be afraid of death and he begun to make a reflection about the things, he could do and he couldn’t do during his life, and he only had to accept that situation.
