Friend – Hone Tuwhare Poem Analysis
Friend by Hone Tuwhare
Poem analysis
Stanza 1
Do you remember
that wild stretch of land
with the lone tree guarding the point
From the sharp-tongued sea?
- Question: “Do you remember” – To ask his friend if he still remembers the happy times of their childhood / Emphasize the distance of the friendship
- Enjambment: Poem is written in conversation format as if he was talking to his friend. No commas and full stops to make the stanza flow. (also no rhymes)
- Imagery: “lone tree guarding the point” – Pictures lonely tree guarding/place for 2 children to play.
- Personification: “lone tree guarding the point” – Compares a tree with a soldier guarding the point from the dangerous sea.
- Personification: “sharp-tongued sea?” – Compares the sea with a cruel and hurtful person.
- Nostalgic tone: “Do you remember” – Brings back good old memories when they were young.
Stanza 2
The fort we built out of branches
wrenched from the tree, is dead wood now.
The air that was thick with the whirr of
Toetoe spears succumbs at last to the grey gull’s wheel.
- First person: “we” – Memories from their childhood when they were together. This makes the poem more personal
- Onomatopoeia: “wrenched” – Makes the reader imagine a violent tearing sound of the tree branch.
- Caesura: “The fort we built out of branches wrenched from the tree, is dead wood now.” – There is a pause in this line to emphasize the fact the tree is now dead and gone (Just like their friendship).
- Onomatopoeia: “whirr” – Whirring sound that the kids could make when playing in their fort. Whirring sound is like a buzzing vibrating sound similar to the sound of a fan or an airplane that the kids could’ve been making.
- Enjambment: No pause between the last 2 lines – Continues the impression of the environment and is in conversation format like talking to his friend.
Stanza 3
Oyster-studded roots
of the mangrove yield no finer feast
of silver-bellied eels, and sea-snails
cooked in a rusty can.
- Imagery: “no finer feast” – Showing that the friends were happy and enjoying their meal. Nothing could be better about their meal.
- Alliteration: “no finer feast” – Adds a smooth sound effect to the poem.
- Sibilance: “silver-bellied eels, and sea snails” – lots of S sounds.
- Imagery: “cooked in a rusty can” – Shows that the kids did not care that the can was dirty but used it anyways because they have to eat.
Stanza 4
Allow me to mend the broken ends
of shared days:
but I wanted to say
that the trees we climbed
that gave food and drink
to youthful dreams, is no more.
Pursed to the lips her fine-edged
leaves made whistle – now stamp
no silken tracery on the cracked
clay floor.
- First person: “Allow me to mend the broken ends” – The poet wants an opportunity to go back in time and “mend” the friendship but he can’t because the friendship is already “broken”.
- Diction: “Broken” and “cracked” is associated with the pain he has from losing his friend.
- Structure: The length of the second line in this stanza “of shared days;” could be short to underline that the times with his friend was short.
- Caesura: “to youthful dreams,is no more.” – There is a pause in this line to make the reader realize that the times of the past he is talking about has ended. This tells us that they have now grown up and are not kids anymore.
- Metaphor: “that gave food and drink to youthful dreams” The trees allowed the children to play and imagine
- Onomatopoeia: “whistle” – Sounds that the children made while having fun.
Stanza 5
Friend,
in this drear
dreamless time I clasp
your hand if only for reassurance
that all our jewelled fantasies were
real and wore splendid rags.
- Diction: “Friend,” – Speaking directly to his friend.
- Imagery: “I clasp your hand if only for reassurance” – His friend is gone but he continues to imagine to clasping his friend’s hand to make sure it wasn’t just a dream.
- Diction: “drear dreamless time” – Shows that he has no hope and enthusiasm about living without his friend.
- Personification: “jewelled fantasies” – Describing his dreams as jewelry to show how much he values his dreams.
- Enjambment: The entire stanza does not have a pause. This is used to show that the idea of being with his friend is continued throughout the stanza.
Stanza 6
Perhaps the tree
will strike fresh roots again:
give soothing shade to a hurt and
troubled world.
- Diction: “Perhaps” – Shows that he has a sense of hope
- Metaphor: “strike fresh roots again:” – Life might become better again.
- Contrast: “soothing shade” is contrasted with “hurt and troubled world” to show that there could be hope.
- Sibilance: “soothing shade” s sounds is soft and makes the poem flow.
These are the notes that I’ve used for my own revision so they may not be all correct. If you have any suggestions please post them in the comments section below.
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Maybe if you included an overall summary of what you think the poem means? As well as analysing the messages stanza by stanza. I support this so much omg. stay lit dude.
Good idea. Thanks!
Noting about the rhyming scheme would be useful please but thank you otherwise
u really fresh Punjabi u spelt NOTING but is Nothing
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it was a really good analysis tho
Thanks 🙂
oh my god… thank you so much for sharing this with the internet! such a splendid work!
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do you have any more notes? These are amazing
tis nots r grt8
Hello I’m from Zimbabwe
thank you so much for the notes ,however my request is please provide us with notes for other poems such as meeting at night,the trees,anthem for doomed youth ,etc….
i think it would be really useful if there were the other 13 poems it is because we could at least tackle the main overall themes
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