The retreat by Henry Vaughan

The retreat by Henry Vaughan

1. Who’s the speaker and who's speaking to?
The speaker in the poem is the poet, is himself who told about his live

2. Type of vocabulary (loving, violent, angry, etc)
maybe he is a little regret or guilty the vocabulary is sad and
calmed

3. Alliterations, metaphors, comparisons, assonances, personifications (that is to say any literary figure you find in it)
Personification in “before I taught my tongue to wound, my conscience with a sinful sound”
Metaphor in “But felt through all this fleshly dress”

4. what's the poem about? (love, hate, faith, life, death)

I think that the poem is about the life of a old man where he remember all the thing that he had done and he feels a little bad because he wants to come back to the past to do something that he couldn’t do, and he feels guilty about the bad thing that he did.

5. Your opinion about the poem

My opinion is that is a sad poem where a man doesn’t feel good for himself life. And I think that everybody thinking (in my case) about all the bad thing that we did and reconsider if I or we are doing bad or good thing for ourselves or the rest of the people.