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Weather Eye
Weather Eye SUMMARY
Weather Eye is not merely a beautiful In the first lines of ‘Weather Eye,’ the speaker begins by
lyrical poem, but it has sweet describing how summer mornings in their youth drove
memories, which describes beautifully them outside to the shade of a guava tree. -There,
in this poem. Dixon seems to be very they could get away from the oppressive indoor heat
imaginative and sensitive throughout for a time. Their mother would close the blinds and
her poem. She describes her family ensure that the home cooled down and became
and childhood memories. She cave-like. -As the lines progress, it becomes clear that
remembers her siblings and the love although this time in their life was difficult, they miss it.
what she received in her loved family. They express a desire to return to it in the final lines.
THEMES
The themes at work in this piece
include family and the past. The
speaker is expressing, in clear and
loving terms, what their life used to
be life. At the end of the poem, it
becomes clear that a lot of
changes have occurred since Purpose
then.
The purpose is to describe, with
nostalgia, the way life worked
when the speaker was young. The
heat of summer was all-consuming
and directed their family’s daily
actions. These routines are
something the speaker connects to
a happier time and something they
wish they could return to.
@Juffrou_Ansie
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STRUCTURE AND FORM
• A six-stanza poem that is divided into
TONE
sets of five, six, or seven lines.
• These lines are written in free verse. This The tone is nostalgic and wistful.
means that the poem does not conform The speaker spends the lines
to a specific rhyme scheme or metrical celebrating what their life used to
pattern. be like, the ups and the downs,
• But, it doesn’t mean that the poem is and the ways the family had to
entirely without structure. For example, compromise when the weather
the use of half-rhymes. was too poor to do what they
• These occur when the poet allows needed to do at one time.
words with similar sounds, although not
identical sounds, to land close together.
• For example, “day” and “wake” in
stanza one. Both of these words use the
same long “a” vowel sound.
Enjambment : occurs
when the poet cuts off a
line before its natural LITERARY DEVICES
stopping point. For
Imagery: occurs when the
example, the transition
poet uses especially
between lines one, two,
interesting and effective
and three of stanza
descriptions. For example,
three.
“filled each day with thin
Alliteration: can be seen brass shrilling, / heat would
when the poet repeats the wake you, lapping at the
Metaphor : can be seen
same consonant sound at sheet.”
when the poet makes a
the beginning of words. For
comparison between two
example, “beetles” and
things without using “like”
“brass” in lines one and
or “as.” For example, “the
two as well as “cool” and
house would be a cool,
“cave” in stanza two.
dark cave.”
@Juffrou_Ansie
Weather Eye
Weather Eye SUMMARY
Weather Eye is not merely a beautiful In the first lines of ‘Weather Eye,’ the speaker begins by
lyrical poem, but it has sweet describing how summer mornings in their youth drove
memories, which describes beautifully them outside to the shade of a guava tree. -There,
in this poem. Dixon seems to be very they could get away from the oppressive indoor heat
imaginative and sensitive throughout for a time. Their mother would close the blinds and
her poem. She describes her family ensure that the home cooled down and became
and childhood memories. She cave-like. -As the lines progress, it becomes clear that
remembers her siblings and the love although this time in their life was difficult, they miss it.
what she received in her loved family. They express a desire to return to it in the final lines.
THEMES
The themes at work in this piece
include family and the past. The
speaker is expressing, in clear and
loving terms, what their life used to
be life. At the end of the poem, it
becomes clear that a lot of
changes have occurred since Purpose
then.
The purpose is to describe, with
nostalgia, the way life worked
when the speaker was young. The
heat of summer was all-consuming
and directed their family’s daily
actions. These routines are
something the speaker connects to
a happier time and something they
wish they could return to.
@Juffrou_Ansie
, 2
STRUCTURE AND FORM
• A six-stanza poem that is divided into
TONE
sets of five, six, or seven lines.
• These lines are written in free verse. This The tone is nostalgic and wistful.
means that the poem does not conform The speaker spends the lines
to a specific rhyme scheme or metrical celebrating what their life used to
pattern. be like, the ups and the downs,
• But, it doesn’t mean that the poem is and the ways the family had to
entirely without structure. For example, compromise when the weather
the use of half-rhymes. was too poor to do what they
• These occur when the poet allows needed to do at one time.
words with similar sounds, although not
identical sounds, to land close together.
• For example, “day” and “wake” in
stanza one. Both of these words use the
same long “a” vowel sound.
Enjambment : occurs
when the poet cuts off a
line before its natural LITERARY DEVICES
stopping point. For
Imagery: occurs when the
example, the transition
poet uses especially
between lines one, two,
interesting and effective
and three of stanza
descriptions. For example,
three.
“filled each day with thin
Alliteration: can be seen brass shrilling, / heat would
when the poet repeats the wake you, lapping at the
Metaphor : can be seen
same consonant sound at sheet.”
when the poet makes a
the beginning of words. For
comparison between two
example, “beetles” and
things without using “like”
“brass” in lines one and
or “as.” For example, “the
two as well as “cool” and
house would be a cool,
“cave” in stanza two.
dark cave.”
@Juffrou_Ansie
