game in their life but like the gnomes that guards gold and precious things they also work to earn their life.
Like pearls, and now a silver blade B24
This expression is classified as a simile since there is a comparison of two things namely the slender tinkling fall as stated in the previous stanza, “a
slender tinkling fall that made now drops that floated on the pool like pearl, and now a silver blade and the pearl, and the silver blade. Lexically the
word ‘slender’ tinkling fall means a small sound resulted from a fall of something. Here in this expression, the slender tinkling fall refers to the fall of
the water in the brook. So this sentence compares the slender tinkling sound like a pearl or silver blade. Lexically, the word ‘pearl’ means precious things
and great value as a jewel. The silver blade is something precious for it is made of silver. In this sentence, it is compared the small flow the slender
tinkling like a pearls that float in the water and like a silver blade. Figuratively the expression “like pearls and now silver blade” means as they
hear the sound of the water they feel like they find the precious things in their life pearls for example. So it can be said that after the entire journey in life
like to look for water at last they fulfilled their physical need as they find the water, and it brings pleasure for them like to find the pearl.
B. Metaphor
The woods are lovely, dark and deepF13
The expression above is classified as a metaphor because it compares the woods as lovely, dark and deep. Literally the word ‘lovely’ means
something beautiful, while ‘dark’ means no light and ‘deep’ woods show
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that the woods is pure, natural and large. The word ‘wood’ lexically means a place smaller than a forest or jungle. Usually it is not said lovely
for woods or forest. But here the meaning of woods is not to show the real jungle, rather to show a place that is beautiful. The word ‘dark’
means that the place is still pure, like a jungle that have not been explored yet. Figuratively the expression “the woods are lovely, dark and
deep” means a beautiful place that man find for a very first time so it is still natural but it is not supposed to be just a woods, or jungle. It could
be showing another place in this world.
Ah when the heart of a man was it ever less than a treasonC20-21 The expression above is said as a metaphor because it compares the heart
of a man with ‘treason’. Lexically the word ‘heart’ means the part of human body inside the chest. Usually it represents the feeling of human
being. While treason means to rebel or against the rules. So this sentence said that heart always rebel to the rules. It means that man is always
about treason. The expression “ah when the heart of a man was it ever less than a treason” figuratively means that man do not willing to
receive the life as it follows. The heart of man always wants something more in his life; everything is never enough for them. So the expression
figuratively means that a man has a sense of rebellion not to receive life as it flows.
I have climbed the hills of view C3
Lexically the word “hills of view” means a land which is higher than the land around it, while the word ‘climb’ lexically means to go up something
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in order to reach the top. It is usually difficult to climb the hills of view and need a hard effort to reach the top. The expression ‘climbing the hills’
figuratively means the difficulties that human face in life as human will always find some difficulties to climb a hill to reach the top. So this
expression figuratively means that the “I” human in this poem has gone trough and has experienced difficulties in his life.
C. Personification
