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critically appreciate the poem "Immortality" by Methew Arnold.​

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Title – Immortality – Given the title,

this poem seems fairly straightforward in that it would be about life after

death, and the existence of it. Maybe he’s writing about this because he’s close

to dying, or someone he cares about is close to dying. In either case he could

be writing this to console either himself or someone else. Most of Arnold’s

poems encompass a central human theme or ideology in the title which is

discussed in his poetry.

Paraphrase –

Thwarted by our friends, sad, tired,

We escape the harsh world to part its way

And, Wait! In another existence, we say

The world will be pushed down, and we will be resurrected.

Then, will the resurrected people not have contempt for

The world’s sad, scared departure? Or will they,

Who weren’t able to survive the heat of day,

Support the passion of heaven’s new day?

No, no! the passion of life can

Still be there after death, but it can not begin;

And those who didn’t’ blame the world,

From strength to strength moving on – only them,

Whose morals are good, and their conflicts resolved,

Go with confidence, but barely any at that, to eternal life.

Connotations –

End Rhyme

The rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA CDE CDE,

makes Immortality a Petrarchan sonnet. The rhyming words connect together the

ideas of the poem. As the scheme switches from ABBA to CDE, the poem also shifts

in tone and content.

Asyndeton (Line 1)

Arnold lists the emotions of “foil’d..,

depress’d, outworn”, without use of conjunctions to show that there’s a much

longer list of emotions we’ll have looking back on our life, which extends

farther than the three listed.

Alliteration (Line 1)

The alliteration of f “foil’d by our

fellow-men” enhances the defeated feeling the reader gets as he reads the first

line of the poem.

Parallelism (Line 4)

The parallel clauses in line 4 of "the world shall be thrust down, and we up-borne" helps

portray an idea of the separation of man from world after death, as the world is

thrust down, and man is up-born.

Rhetorical Questions (Lines 5-8)

The rhetorical questioning in the second

paragraph helps set the tone of the first part of the poem. Arnold contemplates

how humans will react to leaving the world behind. He poses two questions for

the reader to ponder if they’ll have contempt for the world or if they’ll just

be glad about heaven.

Syntax

Arnold’s complex syntax in the poem, and

use of many commas, breaks, and subclauses show the complexity of his human

ideology.

Attitude – Arnold’s tone in the first two

stanzas of the poem is contemplative. He muses the idea of how we’ll feel after

we die, and are reborn. He asks if we’ll scorn the world in its poor state, or

be glad to leave its troubles behind. However in the next two stanzas he refutes

either of these and says the energy and strength of our worldly life, if it’s

appropriate, will be kept with us through resurrection, creating a didactic

tone.

Shifts – The Shift occurs between the

2nd and 3rdstanzas.

It transitions from a contemplative tone where he asks questions about

immortality, to a didactic tone where he teaches us just how it will

be.

Theme – Only those whose energies and

strengths are worthy to the mortal world will continue to

immortality.

Title Revisited – After reading the

poem, our original idea of the poem being about immortality was surprisingly

correct. However it discussed more on the idea of our feelings toward the world

and its mortality, and those who will rise to

immortality.

POV

Matthew Arnold uses first person plural in his poem, Immortality. He talks to humans as a whole, in which he is included. He takes the role as the teacher, to teach us about immortality, and those of us who will obtain it.

CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES

Historical – Arnold wrote his poems during

the Victorian Era, in which social reformation and change in human ideology took

place. Arnold is sometimes noted as among the three greatest or most influential

poets of the Victorian Era. The majority of his works discuss human life and

theology. His poem Immortality is a key example. The discussion of immortality

helped shape the religious aspect of the Victorian Era.

Biographical – Sometime early in his life, Arnold abandoned Christianity, and became Agonistic ("Matthew Arnold: A Biography"). Reading Immortality, one would think Arnold was basing it on Christian values. But in his poems we get a look

into his Agonistic ideology and his views on certain Christian-based ideas,

which likely sprout from his Christian childhood.

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