When we analyze the poem philosophically, the entire humankind is also the target audience. The speaker is narrating the sunrise as the first line says “I’ll tell you how the sun rose.” From this perspective, we can say that the target audiences are those fellow children who have missed observing this beautiful sunrise as they awake late in the morning. It looks beautiful and miraculous but mysterious at the end. In the poem, the world is seen through the eyes of an innocent child. ![]() ➜ The audience is the target people whom a writer writes or composes any poem. Who are the target audience of the speaker? Why? Sound devices alliteration, assonance, rhyme and rhythm make a poem musical.ĭ. Several things make a poem musical and melodious. The word “Sonorous” means full of sound and rich in verse or language. This poem is very short and the poetess is expressing her personal experience of observing sunrise. The first pronoun “I” used in lyrical poems indicates the poetic persona. ![]() The poem is lyrical in the sense that it expresses personal feelings or emotions in the first-person narration. ➜ The poem “A Day” by Emily Dickenson is both a lyrical and sonorous poem. What makes this poem lyrical and sonorous? Discuss. It is also used to give a sudden emphasis.Ĭ. She uses hyphens if she doesn’t find the suitable words to express deep emotions, to granting readers to imagine and complete the missing words and to show the power of silence in front of certain situations. Emily Dickenson uses punctuation marks in her poem in an innovative way. In poetry, a hyphen is used to show pause. ➜ A hyphen (-) is a punctual mark used in writings to join works or parts of words. What purpose does the hyphen in the first line serve in the poem? ➜ According to the speaker, a day is about the simplicity of life’s ordinary things through his/her innocent eyes.ī. What, according to the speaker, is a day? The purple and yellow colours indicate the setting of the sun, but she doesn’t know what happens after it because of the lack of knowledge about the sunset.Ī. She doesn’t know where the sun goes after its sets. ➜ Actually, the speaker is unknown to the setting sun. He is also listening to the singing of the beautiful bobolinks and all these events confirm that the speaker is watching the morning sun. The speaker is observing the change in colour of the steeple into amethyst, untied bonnets of the hills. ➜ Yes, the speaker is watching the rising sun. Is the speaker watching the morning sun? Why? Why not? The hills are personified in this line as they untie their bonnets like women.ĭ. The hills throw away their bonnets when they are touched by the first rays of the sunlight. After the sun rises all the hills look beautiful in fine green colour. ![]() ➜ Before the sun rises, the hills are sunk in the bonnet of darkness. What do you understand by the line “The hills untied their bonnets”? The news of the arrival of the sun on the horizon is compared with the quick running of the squirrels using the word “like”.Ĭ. ➜ The line “The news like Squirrels ran” in the first stanza means that the news of the rising of the sun along with the casting its rays spreads as fast as squirrels run. What does the line ‘The news like squirrels ran’ mean? It changes the colour of the steeple into amethyst.ī. The first beautiful golden rays of the sun extend like ribbons around it. ➜ In the first stanza of this poem, the speaker describes the rising sun in the early morning. How does the poet describe the morning sun in the first stanza?
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