Unseen poetry – A Marriage

There are many feelings within this poem such as love, happiness, relief, teamwork, trust and many more. The overall feeling of the poem and what the poem is telling us is that life’s a tricky task and its not easy to get through life without any help, the poem states ‘you are holding up a ceiling, with both arms. it is very heavy’ its linking life with the ceiling and you holding it with both arms. also life has to be held up with two arms as its very serious just like holding the ceiling up with two arms. It also tells us to accept help where its needed cause everything is not possible without help. as we see later on in the poem when help arrives and makes it much easier to hold up the ceiling. Also life by yourself can be challenging and getting married could resolve the problem as you can work together and help each other through life. you can split things between to two of you and make things much easier for example the poem states ‘a man or woman walks in the room and holds their arms up to the ceiling beside you’ and then ‘so you finally get to take down your arms’ this shows that help is needed to keep life on the right track. the poem presents these feelings by using effective language devices. The first word of the poem is ‘You’ this makes you think and put yourself in the situation so the poem is alive and means something to you, putting it in second person.’you are holding up a ceiling’ this is the first line from the poem and straight away you think of the ceiling being life or emotions. you think of these feelings or emotions being held up by she/he. Also the sentence carries on, on the next line. this is an effective language device as it makes you really think about the first line and pause for a second, then read the rest of the sentence below this in enjambment. ‘but you must hold it up or else’ this leaves you on the edge and leaves you thinking what actually will happen if you don’t hold up the ceiling, this could link to bad things or consequences that happen in your life. this language device works very well linking the poem up and helping the reader to understand and interpret the poem in as many ways possible. ‘your arms are tired, terribly tired’ this has the same sound at the beginning of each word making the line effective this is alliteration. that’s the first stanza, which is very depressing and then the second stanza starts by saying ‘but then’ this brings so much hope compare to the first stanza as you will probably be struggling to keep the ceiling up without it collapsing. but there’s suddenly hope now and its shown by the next part of the stanza stating ‘ unexpectedly, something wonderful happens: someone a man or a woman walks into the room and holds their arms up to the ceiling beside you’ this creates a relieved feeling within you as someone has come to the rescue. linking this to a marriage. the third stanza helps to present the relieved feeling after this stage in the poem. ‘ so you finally get to take down your arms. you feel the relief of respite, the blood flowing back to your fingers and arms’. also ‘you feel the relief of respite’ which is alliteration shown in the poem again. the last three lines of the third stanza show the feeling of love and partnership as it states ‘and when your partners arms tire, you hold up your own the relieve him again’ this shows you are willing to take turns and work together in life to make it easier for the two of you. the last stanza states ‘and it can go on like this, for many years without the house falling’ this shows feeling of trust and love being shown throughout life linking to holding up the ceiling taking turns one after the other.