What Is The Mood Of The Poem April Midnight

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The poem, “April Midnight” by Arthur Symons, is about him and his lover spending time together in the beautiful night of London. The poet imagines himself with his lover and tells how he want to spend time with her. The poet uses the literary element as his main weapon to describe his moments, his love and feelings towards his lover. The poet must be in love and thinking about her while writing the poem because the poem sounds cool, calm, and loving. The organization of poem is 5 stanzas each with 4 lines. The poet uses rhyming as his main element in this poem. The second and fourth line in each stanza ends with a rhyming word, “Side by side through the streets at midnight / Roaming together / Through the tumultuous night of London / In the miraculous April weather” (1-4). The poet put this together like this way to represent the action and the setting of the action. Arthur also uses the figure of speech in this poem. The line, “How the Spring calls to us, here in the city” (7) uses personification. The spring is personified with the human ability of …show more content…

The speaker is describing where he goes and what he feels. The poems constantly focus on “April Weather”, which is spring, and spring represents youth love. He also mentions that it is midnight and after midnight it is a start of a new day, which can describe that he wants to start a new relationship with her girlfriend. The new relationship can be starting a new family, and it also connects to the lines, “Children together” (18) which could mean they want to have kids together. As we saw, the poem revolves around the love between the poet and his lover. The poet wisely uses the literary elements to describe his feeling to make it interesting for the readers. “April Midnight” is a great work of art by Arthur Symons. Writing and describing love through poetry is one Arthurs strength and it clearly, reflects in this

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