Led Head Lamp
poem help?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Cross of Snow"
In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
A gentle face--the face of one long dead--
Looks at me from the wall, where round its head
The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.
Here in this room she died, and soul more white
Never through martyrdom of fire was led
To its repose; nor can in books be read
The legend of a life more benedight.
There is a mountain in the distant West
That, sun-defying, in its deep ravines
Displays a cross of snow upon its side.
Such is the cross I wear upon my breast
These eighteen years, through all the changing scenes
And seasons, changeless since the day she died.
which of these tropes he is using?
-icon
-prosopographia
-paradigma
-enigma
-parabola
-oxymoron
i cant figure it out
Parabola seems most likely. The cross on the mountain is brought forth as something similar (sun-defying, deep, symbolic) in comparison to that cross borne by the speaker since the death of ol'-what's-her-name. That would make it a parabola, as I understand the term.
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