“White Heliotrope”
Symons opens his poem “White Heliotrope” with the clinical images of a “feverish room” and “that white bed”. The personification of the room suggests an immoral lifestyle has been led. White is normally associated with purity however its juxtaposition with feverish diminishes the colour; moreover, the monosyllabic “and that white bed” sets a menacing atmosphere and could indicate the bed as being the source of this decadent lifestyle. The regular ‘abba’ rhyme scheme which runs throughout the poem indicates that this lifestyle will not change.
The images of the “hair-pins, puffs and paints” provide a sense of the materialistic and, when connected with the image of the “tumbled skirt”, the promiscuous personality of the protagonist. The fact that the plosives are situated at the end of the first stanza helps to emphasise their importance in the protagonist’s lifestyle.
The personification continues into the second stanza where the “mirror that......
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