Wedding Eve by Evereit Standa

poetry.

            (i)        The bridegroom to be, He asks “Does she love me?”                                                

            (ii)       -The poem is about a marriage that is about to take placeü  -  “Wedding eve”

                        -The bride groom express doubts about the bride on whether she truly loves him or she                                    is just after his wealth,” Does she love me or my car?”

                        -The persona seems to be pessimistic about the future of his marriage.-He talks about “                                      the future crumbling and fading into nothing”                        

            (iii)      -Rhetorical questions.

                                    “..............This person I know little nothing about?”     (üany other)

                        -Repetitation.

                                    “Should i?”........“.........to love”.

                        -Metaphors.

                                    “Her angle face”-her beauty,

            -Similes

“like the clever passenger in a faulty plane”

                        -Symbolism.

                                    “Faulty plane”-symbolizes a marriage that is in chaos.

            (iv)      Uncertain/Doubtful – He sees marriage as a big risk because one does not know the                                                          other person reasons for wanting to marry them.

                                                                        “Does she love me or my car?”

            (v)       -“Her angle face”-The bride to-be looks beautiful and innocent.

                        -“We are both wise chess players”-Both the bridegroom and the bride to be are                                                    pretenders →None is revealing their motives and true feelings.

                        -“Like a clever passenger in a faulty plane”- This suggests that the bride to be is likely                                      to disown the marriage incase challenges arise.

            (v)       Pessimistic      -The mood is one of pessimism about marriage in general because                                                  marriage partners seem not to trust each other.