A type question
- Ballad
- Regualr metre
- Stanzas develop time
- In first person
- Use of imagery (red colours)
- Call and Response
- "O" is always at the start of the stanza
- Use of rhyme in every stanza
- Phonetic effects
- AB structure within each stanza
- Quatrain 4 line verse
- Subjective Voice
B type question
- Binary opposition with "brightly" and "weapons"
- Language "dear" is intimate, combined with "the vows you swore" and "I promised to love you, dear" suggets the voices are husband and wife
- Possible wife (1st voice) is in denial and that's why she seems naive / curious
- Possibly about conscription or he's wanted for deserting
- "I must be leaving" goodbye due to execution or conscription?
- The army is deindividualised in the last stanza
- The repeated O seems like and expression of dispair
- Enjambment over different stanzas
- Exphrastic
- Voice of the narrator is the voice of Auden
- Setting - Art gallery
- 3 stanzas, 1 stanza is only 1 line long
- Being subjective about the art (observing and being opinionated)
- Irregular rhyme
- Free verse
- Humorous
- Descriptions of the art create some imagery
- No characters (different to his other poems)
Type A
- A comment on religion
- Ideas of irony
- 1st person - partial voice change to 3rd?
- Quatrain - regular metre
- Stanzas develop time in the poem (Similar to 'O what is that sound?')
- Blues tune sets the mood
- Repetition of certain words / phrases
- Clear ABCB structure
- Black comedy
- Objective and omniscient voice
Type B
- Jingle like, Auden wants the poem to be memorable
- Irony about religion and death
- Since she has a deep connection with god maybe this is why she doesn't mind what's done with her body after death
- Main themes; sex, religion, death/life
