Darmawan Eko Yuwono (S4X – 2016410010)

Stop All The Clocks, Cut Off The Telephone

By W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
1. What is the poem about?
This poem is about someone who is deeply mourning, grieving, about the death of her
lover that she loved so much with all of her heart and means everything for her. She
wants that everything and everyone should be mourning with her and having a deep
condolence for her. She’s so desperately grieving until she almost have no more desire
to continuing her life.
2. The speaker in the poem
The speaker is a woman who feels so grieving of her lover gone.
Evidence word :
a. “He is Dead!”.
b. “He was my north, my south, my east and west,”
c. “I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong”
3. Musical devices
4. Tone of the poem
Grieving, as a people who lost her lover.
(“Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.”)
Hopeless, as she thought that all her hope were gone because of her lover died.
(“... put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun”)
(“For nothing now can ever come to any good.”)
The main tone of the poem is Grieving because the intention of the poem is to show
readers how the writer mourning deeply of her lover gone.

Delight in Disorder
By Robert Herrick
1. What is the poem about?
This poem is about someone who is praising a beautiful woman that the way she’s
clothing not so good. He praise that her disorder appearrance are makes her more
delightful and attractive.
2. The speaker in the poem
The speaker is a man who praise a beautiful woman that looks better (more attractive)
in her disorder appearance.
Evidence word :
d. “A sweet disorder in the dress”
e. “Into a fine distraction”
f. “I see a wild civility: ....”
3. Musical devices
4. Tone of the poem
Amazed, delightful, as a man who amazed by an appearance of beautiful woman.
(“A sweet disorder in the dress”, “A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine
distraction;”)