Answer the questions based on the reference given below(poem - Monday Night May 11th 1846)
: Something whose absence leaves a void,
A cheerless want in every heart.
Each feels the bliss of all destroyed
And mourns the change - but each apart.
a. Who is ‘each’ in the above lines.
b. Why does the poet mourn?
c. What is the poetic device used in ‘Something whose absence leaves a void’.
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a. Who is ‘each’ in the above lines.
- Anne Bronte is one of 'each' in the above lines. Although she is talking about all her sisters who are now far way from each other.
b. Why does the poet mourn?
- The poet mourns because everyone's 'bliss' or happiness has been 'destroyed'. They are not cheerful in their minds.
c. What is the poetic device used in ‘Something whose absence leaves a void’.
- Apostrophe has been used in 'something whose absence leaves a void'.
- By this figure a speaker or a writer changes the course of his theme and makes a short impassioned address to a person who is absent, or dead, or to an inanimate object, or even to an abstraction connected with the discourse.
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Explanation:
a.
- ‘Each’ in the above lines denotes all of Anne Bronte’s sisters.
- She is also including herself when she says ‘each’ in the above lines.
b.
- In the poem, Anne contemplates back to a time when all her sisters were happy and at peace with each other.
- But then the Brontë sisters had arguments and tensions just like any other family, so she feels that their bliss and happiness are lost and hence she mourns the loss of good times with her sisters.
c.
- The poetic device used in ‘Something whose absence leaves a void’ is Apostrophe.
- Apostrophe is when the speaker breaks off from speaking about somebody/something and instead talks about a third person/thing.
- In this particular line, Anne, instead of talking about her sisters starts speaking of a feeling that is not entirely related to the current plot.
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