T: The title might refer to an important place in the life of the speaker.
I: The gender of the speaker in the poem is unknown, however, one is able to sense the injustice and bad treatment that the speaker has been facing.
P: The speaker of the poem describes with imagery how he would not work hard for “others”. In the entire octave, the speaker criticizes “others” and how they abuse their power over the speaker. In the last stanza, the speaker’s words are more hopeful and use imagery to compare how buds can bloom in dark not necessarily only in light.
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“White stars is no less lovely being dark” (10); The quote illustrates a paradox between two different kind of stars “white” and “dark” that also symbolizes equality between two group of …show more content…
Later in the poem, the speaker also compares with the passing of the days in “sunset” and “twilight”. In lines 9-11 the speaker continues to compare himself or herself with something being consumed remaining only the ashes of what one thing was alive. However, at the end the speaker reassures that even though he or she might be closed to death the love of his or her beloved strengthens, but sadly his destiny cannot be changed and he will eventually die.
C: Connotations
“Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest” (8); The quote uses alliteration that intensifies the process of life in how slowly and step by step takes you away until only the silence and rest remains.

“Which by and by black night doth take away” (7); The quote utilizes the repetition of the word “by” to emphasize the approaching of the “black night.” That also represents a metaphor of death in the poem.

“As the death-bed whereon it must expire” (11); This is an example of a simile that illustrates the speaker’s young age has already been consummated as a bed that has come to an end and that is not in the same condition when it was once