Question

Justify the title obituary​

Answer 1

Answer:

‘Obituary’ by A.K. Ramanujan is an eight stanza poem that is separated into sets of seven lines. These lines do not do follow a specific rhyme scheme, but that does not mean that there aren’t moments of rhyme and rhythm in the text. For example, Ramanujan makes use of slant or half-rhymes.

These are seen through the repetition of assonance or consonance. This means that either a vowel or consonant sound is reused within one line or multiple lines of verse. There are a few examples of this kind of rhyme in the first stanza with the words “papers” and “daughters” and “on” and “grandson”. These words do not rhyme perfectly, but they are clearly similar. In the fourth stanza, the endings of the first three lines are connected due to a similarity in assonance. The long “e” sound is repeated in “gingerly,” “priest” and “east”.