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Saturday, September 12, 2009 @ 10:33 PM

Last Lesson Of the afternoon by DH Lawrence
Questions
1) What are the persona’s feelings described in the first three stanzas of this poem? Explain how the poet described these feelings through the use of alliteration, metaphors and pun.

The persona was feeling rather vexed and tired. He is also anxious for this session to end. Through the use of alliteration, metaphors and puns, the poet was able to describe his feelings.
In the first Stanza, the author used the metaphor ‘My pack of unruly hounds’. This metaphor refers his students as badly behaving dogs that are hard to control. Through this metaphor, he shows that he is unable to control his students and thus he was very vexed. Besides that, in the phrase ‘a quarry of knowledge they hate to hunt’, two literary devices, alliteration and pun, were used. The pun was ‘quarry of knowledge’. Quarry refers to a person of animal that is being hunted, however in this context, it was knowledge. ‘Hate to hunt’ was the alliteration. It showed that the students hated to learn and were least interested in getting more knowledge and they showed the persona no respect that is why the author is angry.
In the second stanza, a pun used was ‘sick’. It has two possible meanings. While it could be referring that he was physically unwell, it could also refer that he was sick and tired or his students. From this, I can infer that he was tired and was tolerating.
In the third stanza, the persona used the phrase ‘my last dear fuel of life’. Through this metaphor, the persona wishes to show that he was about to die. A pun used was ‘take the toll’. It could mean that the effect will be on the persona or the students.

2) How is the tone of anger in this poem illustrated?
The persona used different ways to illustrate his anger. One of the ways was choice of words. It was shown throughout the poem, especially in the second stanza. The use of brunt shows how the author coops with his stress. While slovenly work shows how the students neglect their studies.