The writer analyzes how Kathleen Raine uses nature in the poem "Passion" to express feelings about love. In the first stanza, nature provides tranquility contrasting the speaker's inner turmoil. Feeling hurt and restricted, nature offers freedom. The second stanza depicts waiting desperately for a call that never comes, using personification of the mute phone and metaphor of mortal heartbreak. By the third stanza, the speaker is speechless and without inspiration. However, nature convinces her to lift her heart without fear and see that life continues, using symbols of the flower and tiger. Ultimately, the speaker finds immortal passion in nature and discovers a new positive world beyond earth and heaven.

1. Explore how the writer of “Passion” uses nature
to express how she feels about love
In the following essay we are going to analyse how Kathleen
Raine, in the poem “Passion”, uses nature​​to express her
different feelings about love.
Firstly, ​in the first stanza, within the soul of the voice there was
chaos and ​turbulent​, outside, nature presented what her soul
needed, ​peaceful​and tranquility: ​“Possessing what my soul
lacked, tranquility”, this quote ​shows how she was feeling​at
that​moment, she compares​how ​calm​nature was, and how her
feelings were about love. The quote said “full of desire I lay”;
showing that her emotional state was burning with desire, she
was feeling hurt. ​Besides, through the metaphor; “Each cloud a
ship without me sailing”; shows that nature had freedom and
that the clouds and the skies left her stuck.
Secondly, in the following stanza, the woman was feeling
desperate and abandoned since she was waiting for a call from
her beloved that never got to her. Furthermore, to express that,
the writer uses personification;“Through the mute telephone, my
body grew weak”, so, through this literary term, she is telling us
that as the phone hadn't rung yet, she felt depressed not only
mentally, but physically too. ​Up to now, the writer presented a
depressing, sad and empty tone. Also, she used ​a depressing
metaphor ​that states a hyperbolic language​; “With the
well-known and mortal death, heartbreak”; ​This means that her
hope for her lover call never came. From the evidence given
before, we can say that the voice was​also ​feeling heartbroken.

2. Moreover, the third stanza announced that she was speechless;
she could not write anything because she lost her inspiration out
of sadness. She was totally abandoned by love. Kathleen used
some literary devices to express those things better and she did
it in different ways. ​In the first line, she starts introducing the
stanza with a metaphor;“The language I knew best my human
speech, forsook my fingers, and out of reach”; here the woman
lost all her inspiration, so she can't write and even express her
feelings. Furthermore,​in that line she used alliteration to
emphasise what she was feeling about it. After that, she used a
hyperbolic tone to ​state how far were ​the woman’s ​inspiration​:
“Were Homer’s Ghosts the savage conches of the beach”; This is
an allusion​immortalised in literature, that compares, as we had
already said, how far her inspiration was with Homer’s ghosts. It
is immortalised in literature because she cannot emit the way of
prevailing noises, of Homer’s ghosts on the Iliad.
However, in the following stanza, the voice started recovering by
the ​personification of the sky, which was nature, ​the universal
spirit. ​It said: “You have what you desire”, trying to say that she
already had what she needed, ​which ​was nature. ​Moreover,
there was a simile​:“Familiar as the heart”​, which meant the
unity she had with the rest of the creation, nature.
Furthermore, in the ​fifth ​stanza, ​Kathleen uses the universal
spirit to state another literary device, a hyperbaton, to
articulate that nature was her essence, ​that she and nature
were one: “This your nature is”, meaning that she was
surrounded by it, so it was part of herself.
In addition, in the following stanza, nature convinced the
woman to stop suffering: “lift up your heart again without fear”,
saying that life goes on and that she doesn't have to be afraid of

3. it. Also she added: “Sleep in the tomb or live the living air”,
where she states that she doesn’t need to think nothing in
detailed because it is an easy choice​; you have to choose
whether one option or another, it’s simple. Besides, she
articulated two symbols, using a hyperbaton;“This world you
with the flower and with the tiger share”; this statement,
articulates the fragile beauty and the awesome power of nature,
as two contrasts.
Apart from that, in the stanza number seven, the voice could see
everything clear​; she had an epiphanie.​She found out that
nature was immortal and it was full of passion, “Then I saw
every visible substance turn into inmortal (...) with the holy fire
of passion”​; here is represented that nature gives her all what
she needs and desires.
Finally, the voice in the last stanza makes a conclusion. Now the
sky was clear, she could see everything in a positive way. ​She
found out a new and better world, it was not the Earth, and it
was not Heaven, it was a world where both places had been
destroyed. ​She discovered that nature was immortal, so her love
was going to be eternal. The writer associated the phrase
“judgment day” with doomed, gloomy, black, negative, among
others, but she saw the optimistic way to them. ​However, she
states three positive tones; light, love and eternity.
To conclude, in these ways the writer of the poem “Passion”
used nature to express how she feels about love​, especially with
the universal spirit that made her change her attitude, and see
the world going forward, not getting stuck in the past.
By:​Anouk Laferrere & Juana Perez Muniz

4. Girls: Good work but very long essay!
You need to focus on showing the use of literary
devices in a different way.
Make the necessary corrections and post it in
your blogs!!