Literary Analysis
"To His Own Beloved Self the Author Dedicates These Lines" Everyone comes to a point in their life where they realize they do not want to be alone. This is the situation in the poem "To His Own Beloved Self..." by Vladimir Mayakovsky. The author is alone, and by the use of figurative language, mood, and random sound, he conveys the moment he is at: he wants someone special in his life. In this analysis, I will be discussing my view on why this is a very well-represented poem on loneliness. Many times, authors use figurative language in a poem to make it more interesting, and to meet the reader at a more personal level. In "To HIs Own...", Mayakovsky uses a lot of personification. "As quiet as thunder, how I'd wail and whine!" Here, the author is giving thunder the quality of being able to whine and complain. "....build up the earth's shivering bosom." The earth has a shivering bosom in this example. A last example is, "the comets, distressed, would wring their hands," and when the comets are distressed, they use their hands to express
"The gold of all Californias isn't enough for my desires' riotous horde. this was Mayakovsky's point, to make the poem helpless and show his feelings about love. Happy poems may be upbeat and rhythmic, while sad poems may be long and slow sounding. The personification is used in this poem to show how great his yearning is for love. " This is ironic because although his love is triumphant and huge, none will ever touch it and those that pass through it will have already found love. There is no real pattern to it, and the author's thoughts are very scattered. Can one live without love? Is love different to each person in that it can be big or small, or is it something we cannot even fathom? My analysis has shown that Vladimir Mayakovsky did not believe love was small in any aspect. They make the reader feel the author's pain-longing, hopelessness, not wanted.
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