I_Have_a_Rendezvous_With_Death

I Have a Rendezvous With Death Sometimes a person's love for something can be so strong it can overcome anything. Hate, lust, and even fear can all be examples of this. In most cases, an author of a poem will create it to express his love for something. Many times the author uses different figures of speech to enhance that feeling in the reader such as personification, illiteration, and imagry. The poem "I Have a Rendevous with Death" by Alan Seegar uses many figures of speech to demonstrate his devotion to his country. In order to understand this theory, the reader must first keep in mind that the poem was written right before the first world war, which helps the them to understand the theme of the poem. The poem itself was created as an allegory to symbolize Seegar representing his country in the war. Throughout the poem, death is personified so the reader can better relate to it. For example, in the lines "It may be he shall take my hand and lead me into his dark land and close my eyes and quench my breath" he doesn't just personify death as leading him, he also uses enjambment. poem, death, reader, seegar, country, love, tells, shall, lines, breath, war, understand, speech, something, pulse, personified, keep, figures, devotion, better, author, written, world, word, wife, true, times, throughout, throbs, things, theory, theme, take, symbolize, sweet, suspicions, supported, strong, spring, someone, sleep, silk, shade, scented, says, saying