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  • Essay / exam - 1336

    A. In the poem I dreamed that you carried me, the poet Antonio Machado recounts a dream he had where he met a woman, his beloved. Throughout the poem, Machado describes the landscape that represents the woman's love. In the end, he shows his feelings towards the woman's death and loss. A theme of this poem is love and longing. How Machado felt after his death is very clear. The poem has a lot of musicality and the large number of adjectives makes it easier to visualize the landscapes Machado describes. The poem is about Machado's love for his late wife. In general, the poem shows Machado's nostalgia after a death. So the poem shows this melancholy and sadness. At the end of the poem, Machado addresses the theme of death by wondering what happens after death, hence "who knows" in the final stanza. The poem is overall a description of a dream and a detailed description of the landscape. Machado uses an expressive and friendly tone. Mountains and mountains are symbols of harmony and purity. The use of verbs in the past tense shows that they are all memories; She died, all that remains are her memories. He also used an allusion to nature and its beauty. Nature never dies, therefore love never dies. The use of descriptive language brings musicality to the poem. There is a melancholy tone to show desire. Figurative language develops throughout the poem. Machado uses a large number of mechanisms. There is comparison and comparison with parallelism and repetition. In the second stanza, the similes say: “Like a new bell, like a virgin bell.” A bell has no voice. Also personification e...... middle of paper ......ano, thunder cannot physically be, be a gun, cannot physically roar, be like a lion. There is also a large amount of alliteration. There is no exact melody. The poem repeats the “r” a lot to express a rhyme, in the last stanzas. “crash and tremble”, “roar the black sea”, “roar, thunder, roar, rocked. » The last three stanzas present images of romantic passion, strong feelings are part of the captain's life. The sea calms the pirate. He says his only home is the sea and he has no loyalty to anyone or anything other than his beloved ship that sails the seas. Once again, through the metaphor "which ship is my treasure", we can see her love and passion for the sea. In conclusion, this poem is about a pirate who lives with independence and freedom and represents her rejection of normality and society..