About His Person

This poem is a Conundrum , it has many questions, that are never answered. This make analysis harder, as by the end of the poem you are still unsure on what it is actually trying to say.

Through out the whole poem there is many metaphors hinting at the idea of death. The poem's title its self is also a hint at death. About his Person, the police use this when talking about a dead body. They use this to refer to what the body has on them. This already means that the reader, if they know this is already thinking and linking to death.

There are also many other metaphors that link to death, for example 'a library card on it's date of expiry.' This could just be a coincidence, but it could also be a metaphor, because the life of the body has expired as well as the library card. The library card is linked to the death of the person. Both expired at the same time.

Also there is the link with the analogue watch. A self winding watch is a kinetic energy powered watch, this means that it will only run when there is movement happening, or if power has been stored up by recent movement from your wrist. 'an analogue watch, self winding, stopped.' The fact that the watch has stopped means the body has not been moving, and also the fact it stores up the energy means that the body has not been moving for a while. Days maybe. No one would wear a none working watch, none moving watch, so he has to have been there for a while. This is another link to the idea of death.

Then on the 5th stanza, it provides another question, that never gets answered. 'A final demand,/in his own hand,'. A final demand could mean many things. This could mean, maybe he had bill that is on final demand. Is this why he is dead. Maybe bills and late payments got on top of him and maybe he killed himself? Or maybe it could mean that is is something like a Will. Maybe if he knew that was going to die, then he would have written a will and is holding it, so that when he is found it is easy to see what he wants done. But also the line 'in his own hand' This also has two meanings. It could mean that it is written in his own hand writting but could also mean that it is phyiscally held in his hand. And if it was a will or something of that sort, like instructions on what to do when he is dead, you imagine it would be written in his own hand writting. This is creating more questions about his death and what happened. Making the poem more intreging, you find that you will continue to read on to see if your questions are answered, but as it is Conundrum, you just find that you finish the poem with more questions than answers. The next line though, gives you a sense that you are about to get some answers, ' A rolled up note of explinations' Sounds like it could lead on to having an answer, but instead it just leads to more questions. You don't find out what that note fo explination says.

On Stanxza 9, it tells you about his finger. 'no gold or silver,/ but crowning one finger' this tells you that once there was a ring on that finger. Was he once married? at this point we don't know, it could just be a ring that he no longer wears.

But on stanza 10, you start to get answers, answers to the stanza before but not answers to questions that you want, but instead it gives you information on his life. A give away to who or what he used to be. 'a ring of white unweathered skin' This tells you that the ring has been there for a long time. People wear wedding rings for a long time and resulting in a 'white unweathered' patch of skin.

How does shakespeare write about love in Sonnet 130?

In the poem, Shakespeare describles his love in the most honest way.

He doesn't pretend she is something she is not, instead it talks about how she actually is. In conventional love poems the love or person being describled is done so in a possible false way that doesnt truly represent how they look. In this he does though, 'I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,/ But no such roses see I in her cheeks' In most love poems you read, the cheeks of people are describled as being the colour of roses, but hers are not. Shakespeare knows this and doesn't care. At the end of the poem he talkes about although there is all this, he still loves her.

As the poem continues Shakespeare persist's to talk about how she really looks, nothing like the conventional, ideal image of a lover. 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;' This is kind of a miss uses simily aswell as the true. Everyone knows what a sun looks like and instead of what you would normally find, something like 'My mistress' eyes are like the sun.'

Poem Analysis- How is the love between the narrator and the Lord presented in the poem?

In the poem, the relationship between the Narrator and the Lord is presented to be a very complicated, stressful and untrustworthy.

The poem is a lot a like the story and development of the relationship of Pertruchio and Kate in the novel 'Taming Of The Shrew'. Both relationships are controlling and in both cases the women is treated badly and with little respect.

At the beginning of the poem the narrator talks about the fact that before the 'great lord', she was a 'cottage maid', meaning that she a virgin and unmarried. And to stay a virgin until the day she is married. She lived with her cottage maid mates. She also, in this same stanza, but towards the end, she say 'why did a great lord find me out/ To fill my heart with care?' And this point, we are unaware what this 'care' is, but what we do know its that she is regretting letting the lord into her life and effect her. So even at this point, straight into the poem is starts with regret and loath for him and how he changed her.

The narrator then continues to talk about how he has main her feel and how he has treated her. ' He changed me like a glove' She is hurt by the way he has just moved from her to her own cousin. He doesn't treat her with any respect, he just got bored and moved to someone else. She is hurt by this, and feels that he has changed and ruined her prospects in life 'so now I moan, an unclean thing,/ who might have been a dove.' She feels she could have been so much, but because of this stupid choice she made, to fall in love with him all that is good. This line makes it obvious that he took her virginity and gave her so many other things, at this point we only know he had given her hate and embarrassment but as the poem goes on we find out that, as well as taking so much he has given a illegitimate child then has just left her for her cousin.

Later in the poem The Lord marries the narrators cousin. To much hatred of the narrator. She expresses her wishes to spit in his face. She is disgust  that he has managed to win over another women, and says that she would never let this happen, she would instead 'spit into his face'.

The Narrator has much hate for The Lord and what he has done to her, loved her, taken part of her, left her and left her with a child to carry for 9 months. She hates every part of him for the disrespect he has shown. And the has a child with this man. This child is the cause of so much embarrassment, the cause of becoming an 'outcast' in her social circle. 'My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride'. She is aware that this child is the cause of so much past, current and future pain, but she also knows that it is her pride. It is the symbol that she can be strong and get through things, without a man. And she will never let the hate of other people get her down, as long as she has her child.

All the way through the poem it is about how much she hates and despises the Lord for so many reasons. But at the end of the poem, roughly the last stanza, the mood changes completely. The Narrator forgets about all the hate she has for him and instead turns her attention to her feelings toward the child. What ever The Lord has done, not done or said, there is one thing she can not deny and that it the love for her child. A mothers love for her child is unconditional, and what ever the lord has done means nothing. The child is her shame but on the other hand it is her love, her 'pride'. and she will never let go of that love 'cling closer'.