Autobiography Essay -- Louis MacNeice Poems Poetry Essays

AutobiographyThe title autobiography is ironic. This poem works on deception. Itssimple except deliberate deceptive as some emotions argon kinda dark. Thepoem characterises the illness and death of Louis MacNeices mystify.The poem starts off quite happy, the use of colour is important inthis poem, as green suggests derail and happiness. Yellow suggestssunlight, youth and pleasant. Black suggests horrific and ghastlyimages and dark as well suggests horrific and frightening images.The rhyming couplets give us a sense datum of ease in his childhood but therefrain Come back down early or never come introduces us to loss andabandonment.MacNeice gives his mother happy colours like yellow, showing that heloved her, but he gives his father no colour at all showing that hedoesnt ...