ENDING

“Ending”

The poem “Ending” by Gavin Ewart is a poem that demonstrates the clear optimistic and mournful tones in its lines. Gavin Ewart achieves these tones with the many figurative language devices he correctly uses. In the profound poem “Ending” the poet(Gavin Ewart) has the use of personification in its last lines to create a mournful tone. The lines “Romance once expected to stay, has left a note saying GONE AWAY.”(13/14)These lines evidently represent personification as romance a mood or feeling can not leave a note. So the true meaning that the poet left was that his/her lover has left and now he/she is sad. This meaning creates a tone of mournful as the individual is now very sad from this. Also these lines indicate feeling of grief and sadness which the person would have inducing the whole poem with a tone of that sort.

“Ending” in some parts may establish the tone of mournful, though the poem surely has different tones to its lines. The poem has a tone for odd and one for even, since the even lines create a mournful tone. The odd lines induce more of an optimistic tone, as they state more of a happy feeling. The line “The kisses that were as curry...” lets the readers infer that their relationship is going well and the poet feels good about it. This simile states that the poet felt so good about their relationship he could compare their kisses to curry. The simile creates a feeling of optimism that their affair would last for long. Gavin Ewart had successfully created and established a tone of optimism and mournful with the usage of figurative devices.