I+Wake+and+Feel+the+Fell+of+Dark

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i. I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day, What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night! what sights you, heart, saw; ways you went! And more must, in yet longer light's delay. With witness I speak this. But where I say Hours I mean years, mean life. And my lament Is cries countless, cries like dead letters sent To dearest him that lives alas! away.

I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me; Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse. Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.


 * //​Compare to//**
 * "Papercut" by Linkin Park**

Why does it feel like night today? Something in here's not right today. Why am I so uptight today? Paranoia's all I got left I don't know what stressed me first Or how the pressure was fed But I know just what it feels like To have a voice in the back of my head It's like a face that I hold inside Like a face that awakes when I close my eyes A face watches every time I lie A face that laughs every time I fall (And watches everything) So I know that when it's time to sink or swim That the face inside is hearing me Right underneath my skin

[Chorus] It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back It's like a whirlwind inside of my head It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

I know I've got a face in me Points out all my mistakes to me  You've got a face on the inside too and Your paranoia's probably worse I don't know what set me off first but I know what I can't stand Everybody acts like the fact of the matter is I can't add up to what you can but Everybody has a face that they hold inside A face that awakes when I close my eyes A face watches every time they lie A face that laughs every time they fall (And watches everything) So you know that when it's time to sink or swim That the face inside is watching you too Right inside your skin

[Chorus: x2]

The face inside is right beneath your skin The face inside is right beneath your skin The face inside is right beneath your skin

The sun goes down I feel the light betray me

[Chorus]

It's like I'm paranoid lookin' over my back It's like a whirlwind inside of my head It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within It's like I can't stop what I'm hearing within It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

//**Literary Techniques**//
 * i. Asyndeton **
 * In the poem:** Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse
 * In the song:** Like a face that awakens when I close my eyes, A face that watches every time I cry, A face that laughs every time I fall

The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.


 * ii. Simile **
 * In the poem:** Cries like dead letters sent
 * In the song:** It's like a face that I hold inside; It's like a whirlwind inside of my head; It's like the face inside is right beneath my skin

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. Uses "like" or "as to draw comparison.


 * iii. Metaphor **
 * In the poem:** I am gall, I am heartburn. God 's most deep decree Bitter would have me taste; my taste was me.
 * In the song:** I know I've got a face in me, Points out all my mistakes to me, You've got a face on the inside, too

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.