Forgive My Guilt

Forgive my guilt written by Robert P. Tristram Coffin is a narrative poem written in the 1st person which tells us about a man who is regretting his past when he use to kill birds. It is written in flashback because the persona wrote the poem as an adult with hindsight at his childhood how he used to lay on the frost flow with his gun being prepared to shoot. The dominant theme ascertained was remorseful. The persona showed a tone of regret. In lines 23 and 24 we saw where he asks the wild, airy and beautiful to forgive his guilt (in line 23 wild here is referring to the animals and in line 24 airy is referring to the flying creatures). We learned two of much imagery. They are tactile and visual. We were able to see visual imagery because we could have pictured the persona lying on the ground while waiting for the wild and airy to pass by to just shoot at it. And tactile because we could have tell or felt the sense of the atmosphere around. The dominant figure of speech is simile while there were others. We found three similes in lines 6 which states, two birds on golden legs slim as dream things, and here we see that they are comparing the birds to thing in dreams. The simile in line 7 says, ran like quicksilver on the golden sand here it is comparing how the birds would run like quicksilver on the beach which then describe the sand as golden and in line 11 the simile is they cried like two sorrowful high flutes comparing them to the high pitch sound that a flute give off. Other figure of speech discovered were metaphor in line 20 which says those slender flutes of sorrow never cease which is referring the birds in his head the cried that the birds made would never go away. Also, a pun was ascertained in line 21 where it says two airy things forever denied the air in this the pond would be denied the air. It has two meanings, one the birds denied the air because they could fly again and two they are no longer going to be able to breathe. The moods I got from this