Dark And Mysterious Poem

The following sample essay on “Dark And Mysterious Poem”: upon reading this poem from an annalistic perspective, the reader is instantly struck by words of murderess intent within the first line giving the illusion that the poem is going to dark and mysterious, (Donne) expertly convinces the reader to search for an unrealistic metaphor spirit or ghosts informing the reader that the passage to follow will not be all that it appears to be and will be graphic and play will the laws of realism(Donne) sets a frightening scene from the out set and has the reader on the edge of their seat so to say, and he achieves this with the very first word (When) as we the reader have no clue when this is there is no reference to.

A specific time or date, and it is a continuous word filled with ambiguity (Donne) writes when by thy scorn, unusual because when I am content that you are unworthy is the meaning of this, and we are now forced to feel instantly sorry for the narrator, has something bad happened, why is this person having rage towards the person and clearly has lost all respect for them at this point.

(done)places a comma and moves on to write (O murderess, I am dead) so is (Donne) making the reader think this is coming from the voice of a ghost and we are left wondering why is this person settled now they are deceased, murd’ress is clearly stating that a female companion the recently deceased had a large part in this story.

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Looking further and by dissecting the word murd’ress it is very close in sounding to mistress if we read it as mist’ress. rather than using murderous as in murderess intent (done) uses old English to place an apostrophe in the middle of the word, and this has the effect of changing its possible meaning to either to either a murderous idea or a female lover that has had a part in the murder or death of the deceased. This is all down to the pronunciation of the reader. When by thy scorn, O murd’ress, I am dead (Donne) has started to create a type of rhythm in the very first line by the use of three capital letters as if to make the words connected appear more prominent and to be voiced with a more selected tone of anger rather than regular reading voice the capital letter and bigger than lower case letters and present a male characteristic of strength and authority this interpretation is backed up with the audible design created with the syllables of each word know as meter.

Although this poem produced in a varying meter it still adds a lot of rhythmic design and works well throughout, as I am concentrating on the following lines When by thy scorn, O murd’ress, I am dead (Donne) has inserted a Capital letter forever line and goes on to do so for the future of the poem meaning every line can forecast strength and anger and rage and masculinity. On closer inspection to the highlight lines one to four the rhyming seems to assert a functional pattern, and logical voicing of the prose creates a rhythmic bounce with the ending of each line we can clearly see lines one and four matching in rhyme and lines two and three becoming a pair. If we ignore the (and) it becomes obvious that the reader rattles of for words starting with a (Th) forming alliteration even the word free has a similar sound to a TH and created a musical pattern TH,TH,TH,TH,TH a whispering sound almost ghostly it adds to the suspense and gives the poem a dark and unnerving feel

Creates the poem to be narrated from a male voice and is directed towards a female that has taken a new lover, whether or not the narrator is dead or has been murdered is irrelevant and personally decided by the reader themselves if thinking the narrator is alive (done )gives the feeling of ultimate revenge and that he has been deeply wounded by his ex-lover who is now within another mans arms done quite crudely expresses that the woman pureness and virginity is false this is shown throughout the passage and to focus specifically on two words (feign’d vestal).

The man which has been so hurt by his lover intends to creep his former love when she feels “free From all solicitation from me” (lines 2-3), so that he may meet her in a surprising manner and by he will be planning to terrify her. He plans to visit and haunt her in her bed, the place where she should feel safe instead he will lie next to her. He insults her by calling her a “fain’d vestal”Then her former lover’s ghost finds her in the “worse arms” of another man also raises concern to her promiscuousness. We can relate to this in a biblical sense, the man or third person narrator is actually God, the lover is all of humankind that has severely sinned or rejected faith, but by this God warns that he will come back and catch humankind in the arms of the secular world.

Indeed, the poet claims that the woman’s current lover is “worse” than himself, and this lover proves it with his refusal to comfort the frightened woman when she will turn to him in bed. The poet describes the current lover as “being tired before,” hinting that the two have already made love that night and the man thinks the woman is waking him to engage in sex once more. Donne’s conceit is in a little trouble because stereotypically (and in the context of the poem) it is usually the reluctant woman who resists the lascivious man, but he has resolved it by suggesting that the man is too tired to keep performing for her.

The rhyming triplet located in the last three lines of this single stanza poem is contextual words relating to criminal activity, for example, a (spent) conviction to (repent) is to undo or make right a situation or previous action, and (innocent) which is the opposite to being guilty, it’s strange that (Donne) would use such words as they all have different tenses past present and future and to use these at the end of the prose signifies a metaphor for imprisonment a lifetime of waiting to repay back a sim until it is spent or the unfinished business of a haunting ghost can be complete and the spirit can rest