At the same time, “Richard Cory” is deceitfully cheerful and the beginnings of the lines are more stressed. “Funeral Blues” is a monologue of a mourner, and it has the appropriate character, its lines are stressed towards the end. Metaphors are “aeroplanes circle moaning overhead”, “dismantle the sun”, “pour away the ocean”.Įven though neither of the poems contains any sound devices, the overall sound of the poems is a part of the messages they carry. Cases of hyperbole are “love would last forever”, “nothing now can ever come to any good”. In “Funeral Blues” anaphora is “He was my North, my South, my East and West…” (9). Metaphors are “fluttered pulses when he said”, “glittered when he walked” and “went without the meat, and cursed the bread”. ![]() Cases of hyperbole are “richer than a king”, “he was everything”. In “Richard Cory” anaphora may be found in the following lines: “And he was always quietly arrayed,/ And he was always human when he talked” (5-6). At the same time, “Funeral Blues” employs a number of images to paint a picture of an extreme sadness of a person who lost someone and now feels like the whole world is in vain.īoth of the poems contain the same figures of speech – anaphora, hyperbole and metaphor. “Richard Cory” is focused on the description of a character who seems perfect to the observers. The author first wants to quiet down all the sounds saying, “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,/ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone” (1-2), and then starts demanding impossible things, “Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,/ Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood” (14-15). In “Funeral Blues” connotative meaning gradually escalates towards the end of the poem. For example, “he glittered when he walked” (7-8). It includes only a few lines containing connotations. “Richard Cory” is based mainly on denotations since it is a narrative poem. ![]() “Richard Cory” contains some old-fashioned expressions such as “He was a gentleman from sole to crown” (3), and “And admirably schooled in every grace” (10). ![]() The choice of words in both works is rather modern, but “Funeral Blues” clearly has more contemporary diction using such words as “telephone”, “traffic”, and “aeroplanes”. The difference between these two works is that “Funeral Blues” sticks to the same tone through all the four stanzas, while “Richard Cory” has a rapid shift in the last quatrain, from utter admiration it switches to bitter disappointment with the hint of indignation. Both of the poems carry messages, “Funeral Blues” informs about the feelings of an apathetic and depressed mourner suffering from a recent loss, and “Richard Cory” emphasizes that things are not always what they seem, both poems communicate disappointment with the ways life can be.Ĭomparing the tones of the poems one may see that “Funeral Blues” is tragically passionate about rejecting everything around, abandoning hope for the best, whereas “Richard Cory” begins with a rather optimistic and full of faith in good tone.
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