Commentary On The Poem 'Alone And Forgotten'.

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Commentary On The Poem ‘Alone And Forgotten’

‘Alone And Forgotten’ is about a man, who shortly after he died was forgotten by the world. This is shown in the first stanza “...forgotten by world, all the remains is the gravestone with his name...” this theme is also continued throughout the rest of the three stanzas.

        I wrote about death and being forgotten because these are some of the things that worry and scare me. I wanted my poem to have deep meanings, and some truth of how things are in this world.

        The tone that I have used in this poem is a sad, lonely tone. This tone does not change throughout the poem. The lines are very short in the poem, in order to emphasise the man’s depression and loneliness.

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        This poem is a free-verse poem. There are only a few words that are similar and some that rhyme, for example ‘remains’ and ‘name’ and ‘Flowers’ and ‘visitors’. During the third stanza, I have used the word ‘they’ a few times instead of stating who the people were. This was so that the audience could imagine for themselves who this person may be, and whom the people were that had promised that they would never forget him, and they did just that. Also during the last stanza, I have included the lines “The tears lasted, /Only, /As long as the ...

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