Autobiography Essay -- Louis MacNeice Poems Poetry Essays

AutobiographyThe title autobiography is ironic. This poem works on deception. Itssimple but deliberate deceptive as some emotions are quite dark. Thepoem characterises the illness and death of Louis MacNeices mother.The poem starts off quite felicitous, the use of colour is important inthis poem, as parking area suggests spring and happiness. Yellow suggestssunlight, youth and pleasant. Black suggests horrific and ghastlyimages and dark also suggests horrific and frightening images.The rhyming couplets give us a mother wit of ease in his childhood but therefrain Come back 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 ...