Review; The Potrait of a Lady Analysis
The poem 'Potrait of a Lady' by T.S Elliot is a
wonderful piece of story. The story has perfect plot that could tell the story
amazingly. The initial situation, conflict, climax, suspense, denouement, and
conclusion, are arranged neatly and beautifully. So, this poetry could attract
me to read it and make me easy to understand the order of event, even though I
actually get some troubles when I try to figure out the deep meaning of story.
But, it does not the matter because I think it is a big challenge for me. In
other word, I could successfully find the deep meaning according to my own
perception.
The story is divided into three chapters
with putting the time of month for each chapter. That is functioned to describe
about the time of every event in plot. So, it could make someone easier to
relate the order of event. In other word, it could show the progress of time
and action.
The
poem is talking about the broken love between a man and lady. The author names
the lady as Juliet, yet he doesn’t give it for man. It probably the author
describes a man has no clearly character, means bad character. The principal of
story is actually referred to everyone that has broken love with his couple,
because the author Juliet name is meant as general name that is famous on
societies extensively. So, the author could indicate Juliet as the lady that
refers to every lady. Also, he describes a man as a guide referring to every
man. The man probably has deep meaning like “men”, the plural of man. So, it
could refer to every man has broken love.
The
first case that is told by the author is from December afternoon (stanza 1). It
is actually the last month that ought to be told at the end of the story. But,
the author has another purpose that he tells the end of the story in the
beginning. It probably he’d like to tell the past event of someone as the
lesson for everyone in the present time. In this case, December afternoon is
described like the misery and regret for someone and it is not separated from
the most important aim to tell us about the effect that would strike us when we
are late to change the broken love like the death of Juliet, “An atmosphere of
Juliet’s tomb”. The man fell the misery comes into his heart because the
harmony of his love is doesn’t come for a long time, whereas the lady has lost
her breath too fast. So, the man that begins to love her affectionately getting
the deep regret and extremely heartbreak, “Among velleities and carefully
caught regrets….”
In the line 16-17 of the first stanza, the
author also assumes the lady as the little tone of violin, “Through attenuated
tones of violins”, and assumes the man as the far tone of cornet, “Mingled with
remote cornets”. It probably means that the relation between man and women is
broken.
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