Meeting at night 赏析

Meeting at night Analysis

I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.

This is a love poem. The author used simple words to describe the hero crossed the sea by boat to see his lover with happy mood. Poet influenced our emotions through image, makes us feel the hero by what he saw and heard.This poem is unforgettable to readers. There are several reasons.

The poet wrote the scenery specifically, no mention of the mood, but the emotion is quite obvious. Firstly, I want to analyze some key words. At the beginning of this poem, Dante Gabriel Rossetti used “Grey sea” and “long black land” laid the main tone for first section. Deep color symbolizes fathomless and reflects the hero did not sure about the idea of his girlfriend. “Large”and “low”interacted with each other. “Yellow half-moon” changed the tone from obscure color to bright one. This two lines are static description, but it contrasts with the tone of the above, let us know that the hero is happy about this date. The third line turns the static description to dynamic state，so that “startled” and “leap” add vitality to this poem. “Then” and “a mile”are key words of the seventh line, the former shows us it was a long way to the girl’s home, the latter expresses the hero was urgent. “To cross”and “till”pass expectation and difficulties of this data to us.

The last two lines of the poem reach a climax:“And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears，Than the two hearts beating each to each!”Don‘t try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.

Next, I would to write about images. To combine emotion with scenery. This poem used a variety of vivid images to express emotion. In this poem, the poet used not only the visual images, auditory images, olfactory images, but also the tactile images of the hero’s experience. By this way, readers can share expectations and excitement from the hero. “Gray sea”“black land” and “yellow-moon”gave us with vivid visual experience, they also heightened the atmosphere of the night. “warm sea-scented beach”is olfactory image that makes us seem to smell the air of ocean. The eleventh line uses many auditory images to pass the data experience to the reader in the most graphic detail which present us a wonderful and happy meeting more vibrant. “Gain”“quench”“tap”of tactile image to express the hero cannot wait to meet the lover with anxious and exciting mood.Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.

The use of onomatopoeia is another highlight of this poem. The pronunciation of “slushy” likes the sound of friction between the bow and sand, as if reader can hear the sound of the ship. “Scratch”and

“spurt”imitate the moment of lighting a match. And“beach”,“scratch”，“match”and“each”in some lines , the poet used “-ch”(plosive) creatively, the short and light pronunciation just like heartbeat when we were excited and scared. That made us better understand “joys and fears”two protagonists had when they met secretly at night.Smile because it happened.

Finally, I want to talk about metrical form. This poem consists of iambic and anapest. The poet has a regular arrangement of light stress, so that the whole poem can get a quick rhythm. The poem also used a variety of rhythms. First, the alliteration likes “pushing prow”and “slushy sand”. “And the yellow half-moon large and low”, “land”, “low”, “leap”, “sleep”, “prow”, “sand”are internal rhyme and end rhyme. These end rhyme appeared repeatedly, contributed much to the beauty of this poem.

To the world you may be one person, but to him, you may be the world.