The poet uses a device where he directly addresses someone absent or abstaret. Such
device is the Figure of Speech called 'Apostrophe".
For example: Turn, turn, thy, hasty, foot aside.
om din other lines from the poem that contain an Apostrophe.
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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" 1 Corinthians 15:55, Paul the Apostle
"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man
That ever lived in the tide of times." William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, act 3, scene 1
"O God! God!" Hamlet, act 1, scene 2
"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still." Macbeth, act 2, scene 1
"O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." Romeo and Juliet, act 5, scene 3, 169–170.
"To what green altar, O mysterious priest, / Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, / And all her silken flanks with garlands drest?" John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
"O eloquent, just, and mighty Death!" Sir Walter Raleigh, A Historie of the World
"Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!" Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
"Roll on, thou dark and deep blue Ocean – roll!" Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
"Thou glorious sun!" Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "This Lime Tree Bower"[5]
"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so." John Donne, "Holy Sonnet X"
"And you, Eumaeus..." Homer, the Odyssey 14.55, κτλ.
"O My friends, there is no friend." Montaigne, originally attributed to Aristotle[6]
"Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity!" Herman Melville, "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
"O black night, nurse of the golden eyes!" Electra in Euripides' Electra (c. 410 BC, line 54), in the translation by David Kovacs (1998).
"Then come, sweet death, and rid me of this grief." Queen Isabel in Edward II by Christopher Marlowe