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Allusion Of Going To A Woman By Tom Wayman

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1. The speaker could be any man but particularly a persistent man. The speaker is very persistent as he constantly pushes the idea of having a sexual relationship to the woman he is talking to before time runs out and they die. The speaker seems to require more attention than a normal person would as he spends the whole poem requesting a sexual relationship to the woman he is talking to. The speaker also seems to be paranoid with the idea of time especially time running out and him dying.
2. The speaker is speaking to a woman which could be implied to be his mistress due to the title of the poem. An appropriate audience would be adults or older people who start to realize that their time is running out and that death will soon follow.
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The biggest allusion that I saw throughout the poem is the allusion to fame. Celebrities spend an abundance of their time and resources (money) investing it on the newest beauty products, shots, or basically anything that they believe will somehow give them a longer lifespan. The speaker at first seemed upset that his time was running out but then he realized that he cannot possibly control time but just learn to live with it which is celebrities should do instead of focusing on trying to look younger while they’re time is still running out.
10. The tone of the poem is definitely very intense and persistent. The speaker talks about the inevitable realization that time does not wait for anyone and that death is not something that can be avoided which is pretty intense for a poem. The tone is also persistent due to the repetition and emphasize that the speaker places on the idea of time. The speaker also emphasizes the importance of not holding back on things that people want to do before it is too late and they …show more content…

The predominant image that I got while reading this poem was the one of a hospital. Hospitals are always full of sick and at times terminal patients. In certain situations when a patient is found to be terminal they immediately fall into a state of depression and believe that waiting for their death is the only option they have but many doctors advice otherwise by encouraging them to take trips or do something that they had always wanted to do before they pass away which is how I saw it connecting to the poem and particularly the speaker’s point of view about time.
13. In lines 18-19 the speaker says “show your heart” which is a metaphor of the imagined agreement between him and his mistress of finally agreeing to engage in a sexual relationship. In the phrase “thus, though we cannot make our sun stand still, yet we will make him run” shows a use of personification by stating that the sun is a male and that he has human traits such as being able to stand still and run.
14. An understatement in this poem is the importance of thinking about the afterlife. The speaker states to his mistress in engaging in a sexual relationship which would be considered a sin but that does not seem to even cross his mind. Another example is when he even stated that he had lust in the phrase “ and into ashes all my lust” which is also another sin but the speaker either is not religious or simply does not care about what will happen to him and his mistress once they

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