The poem “Gone,” by Eamon Grennan, can appeal to all to a certain category of readers. “Gone” is a free verse poem. The poem is so short it only has one line including figurative language. The line reads, “... no more than themselves in the cold truth-telling glass.” Personification is used in this sentence to describe the glass and how it represents glass and the message it holds. The poem can be considered an ode due to the message ot holds overall; which I interpret as “nothing of sentimental value can be replaced.” The tone of the poem is more negative. It has a gloomy, lost feeling towards it that makes the reader feel like the man in the poem is sad. This creates the mood which has a relative feeling of the gloomy, lost, mournful tone of the speaker.
The speaker of this poem is a man who …show more content…
The setting is inside the house that I assume the man once shared with the women. He is in the bedroom standing before a vase of flowers that is in front of the bedroom mirror. The setting and mood set up the theme for this poem. The man is alone, seems upset and distraught about the women not being there, and is staring at a vase of flowers he just put down. The theme of the poem can be considered, “taking nothing for granted.” I say this because the man obviously is in pain that the women is not in his life anymore. You could assume that he took her presence for granite, and now he is left without it. The man is doleful due to the fact he knows nothing will replace the women that was once with him. The figurative language with the pedals of the flowers is letting the reader know that no matter how many objects the man fills up the room with; it will never fill the void of not having that women in his anymore. One can assume that the man took the women for granite. If he had not taken her for granite, then he would not be so mournful when setting down his new vase of flowers. This poem