Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Prodigal
- Alliteration
- "Light-lashed"
- "faint forked"
- personification
- "self-righteous"
- "the first star came to warn"
- biblical allusion
- "The Prodigal"
- "safe and companionable as in the Ark"
- "a pacing aureole"
- sensuous imagery
- "plastered halfway up with glass-smooth dung"
- "the sunrise glazed the barnyard mud with red: the
burning puddles seemed to reassure"
- "a slimy board"
- "The brown enormous odor"
- onomatopoeia
- "overhanging clouds of hay"
- theme
- redemption
- the strength of the human spirit
- tone
- bleak &depressing in 1st stanza
- becomes cautiously optimistic in the 2nd stanza
- begins to change at the word "But"
- metaphor
- The Prodigal is a metaphor for an alcoholic,
specifically the poet herself.