HE HAD SUCH QUIET EYES

ELEMENTS OF THE POEM

Meaning of the Poem: Stanza 1LITERAL MEANING FIGURATIVE MEANING

The persona, a young innocent girl is falling in love with a charming man. She trusted him very much. His eyes looks so sincere and the girl did not realize that the man would betray her. The man begged the girl to accept him and surrender herself wholly; her heart, soul and body.

In our life, we have to go through and get involve in all walks of life and all sorts of human character. Sometimes we got cheated by their sincere looking and action.

Meaning of the Poem: Stanza 2LITERAL MEANING FIGURATIVE MEANING

The persona experiences betrayal of her feelings of love and belief in the man’s sincerity. She realizes that she should have listened to advices. If she was, she would be burdened with the ‘how and why’ now.

There are people who just pretend. They betray those that put their trust on him/her. Either it be in social or business relationship. Listening too musch to them caused problems to ourselves.

Meaning of the Poem: Stanza 3LITERAL MEANING FIGURATIVE MEANING

Young ladies must be careful before getting involve in a relationship.

We should be more well prepared in our life. All along our journey, we tend to make mistakes. Learn from it and don’t repeat the same mistake again

Theme1. Betrayal of love The man make the girl to put her trust and love

on him but he betrayed her2. Personal experiences The girl shares her personal experiences with

others.3. Relationship that meaningful

These relationship can be cultivated if one is careful and wise in every decision they make

Moral Values

1. Don’t be naïve and believe in everything that you see and hear

2. We must be careful when making friends.3. Falling in love is normal but we must

always be careful.4. Learn from mistakes and from people’s

experiences.

Mood and Atmosphere

1. The mood is reflective as the persona is reflecting her experiences in being betrayed.

2. The atmosphere is a mixture of sadness and happiness. Sadness due to betrayal and happiness because she knew the truth about the real intention of the man.

Tone

The poet is understanding and sympathetic to the girl.The poet gives advices to the rest of the girls.

Point of View

The poem is in the third point of view.

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Language and Style

Simple and easy to understand

Rhyme Scheme

The poem has three stanzas.Stanza 1 gives the situation.Stanza 2 relates causes from Stanza 1Stanza 3 gives a closure to Stanza 1 and 2 in the form of advice.The rhyming situation is ‘a,a,a,a’ with the last word of every line having the same sound.