ANALISE OF THE POEM: “OFFERINGS”

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Title: Offerings

Writter: Hilary Tham

 

 

I came to you sunrise,

With silvery dew on sleeping lotus

Sparkling in my gay hands;

You put my flowers in the sun.

 

5 I danced to you at midday,

With bright raintree blooms

Flaming in my ardent arms;

You dropped my blossoms in the pond.

 

I crept to you at sunset,

10 With pale lilac orchids

Trembling on my uncertain lips;

You shredded my petals in the sand.

 

I strode to you at midnight,

With gravel hard and cold

15 Clenched in my bitter fists;

You offered me your hybrid orchids,

And crushed them in despair.

 

 

 

From reading the title I expect the poem to be about some offers.

The title tells us that somebody want to make to an other person some offers about, for example, his love.

 

The poem is formed of five stanzas, whereof three quatrains and one fivetrain. It is the stanza closing.

There are four assonance sound: ardent arms; blossoms (in the) pond; petals (in the) sand; bitter fists.

Then there are four sintaticol structure: I… (came, danded, crept, strode) to you, at the start of every stanzas at the first line.

 

From reading the poem I expect the person who makes some offers is a man, beauce, I think, when a man is madly in love with a girl, is able to do something to win back the girl.

 

The stanzas are divide by the main side of the day: sunrise, midday, sunset, midnight.

The sunrise suggests the start of the day, of the period. It suggests the coming of the man.

The midnight suggests the end of the day and of the man’s dream about to win back the girl. It suggests the unhappiness, the obscurity, the despair.

 

Every stanzas start to talk about the man, what are his offerts and what are his emotions; and they finish to talk about the girl, what she makes with the man’s offerts.

About this, I expect the girl does not fall in love with the man and thus she condemns his offerts.

 

This poem describes the life cycle throught the sun cycle; to be born (sunrise), to live (midday) and to die (midnight).