Question

Comparison between the speaker and philomela in the poem 'the nightingale'

Answer 1

Philomena by Matthew Arnold is a four stanza, free verse poem written from the perspective of a narrator mourning the ancient plight of a character from Greek mythology. While the poem does not have a set rhyme scheme, there are a number of end sounds that can be found in repetition, such as “pain” and “brain,” and “dew” and “peruse,” throughout the poem. This lends the piece a sense of unity without the poet having to strictly structure it.