A. In the poem I dreamed that you carried me, the poet Antonio Machado recounts a dream he had in which 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 about the woman's death and loss. A theme of that poem is love and nostalgia. It is very clear what Machado felt after his death. The poem has a lot of musicality and the large number of adjectives makes it easier to visualize the landscapes described by Machado. The poem is about Machado's love for his late wife. Overall, the poem shows Machado's nostalgia after a death. Therefore, the poem shows this melancholy and sadness. At the end of the poem, Machado addresses the theme of death by asking what will be 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 is dead, only her memories remain. He also used an allusion to nature and its beauty. Nature never dies, therefore, love never dies. The use of descriptive language contributes to the musicality of the poem. There is a melancholy tone to show longing. Figurative language develops throughout the poem. Machado uses a large number of mechanisms. There is a similarity 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. Even personification and...... middle of paper ......anus, thunder can't physically be, be a firearm, can't physically roar, be like a lion. There is also a great deal of alliteration. There is no exact melody. The poem repeats the “r” a lot to express a rhyme, in the last stanzas. "crash and shake", "Roar of the Black Sea", "roar, thunder, roar, rocked". The final three rooms present images of romantic passion, strong feelings are part of the captain's life. The sea calms the pirate. He says that his only homeland is the sea and that he has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his beloved ship that sails the seas. Once again, through the metaphor “which ship is my treasure” we see his love and passion for the sea. In conclusion, this poem is about a pirate who lives with independence and freedom and represents his rejection of normality and society..
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