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UPON HIS DEPARTURE HENCE. THUS I Pass by, And die : As one Unknown And gone : I'm made A shade, And laid I' th' grave : There have My cave, Where tell I dwell. Farewell   Poem Analysis Upon His Departure Hence, is one of Robert Herrick works. He is well known for his style and, in his earlier works, frequent references to lovemaking and the female body. His later poetry was more of a spiritual and philosophical nature. Among his most famous short poetical sayings are the unique monometers. One of them is this poem. I.     HOW THE POET MANIPULATE THE MEANING OF WORDS. The poet  style in the  way of using language uses connotation meaning. §  The word  pass by  in this poem figures that to live in this real world is not eternally, people live in this world just for dropping on. §  The word unknown  co notates forgettable or no body/ no one §  The word gone  shows the death §  The word  shade means the writer illustrated that he built the shelter in the day after his live. §  The word cave  related with  grave  means it’s not real cave, but  illustrates  the place where the writer  will live in the next world. The poet  used ambiguity poetic device §   The word grave  has two meaning, not only the denotation meaning means real grave, but also the shelter or a house where someone who die live in forever. Personal References, the writer uses pronoun “I”  seems he is addressing the poem to himself. Meanwhile the use of punctuation marks in this poem illustrates  the activities are done by the writer, and differentiated the world in real live and the world after he lived. II.  IMAGERY The poet used personification in his poem. My cave, Where tell I dwell In those rhythms above the poet viewed cave  can be talk to tell the place where someone who die lived III.    THE POETIC COMPARATION Generally the poet compared the world when people still alive and the world after they die. In this poem the poet explained in his limited words the differentiate both of the worlds. In the second line, Pass by  the poet illustrated that live in this world is only temporary. In contrast in tenth up to fourteenth lines  I’ th’ grave, There have, My cave, Where tell, I dwell, the poet said that live after die was eternity.    IV.   THE SYMBOL Some symbols used  in this poem as follows: Pass by         à People just drops on in this live, the eternal live exactly is the world after the people has died. Unknown     à Symbolize if people never did better life, he would be no one/nobody Shade           à People has to do better life for the next eternal life. Cave             à the eternal shelter for people after he has died. V.      THE MODE OR TONE The tone of this poem is a spiritual and philosophical nature, in this case the writers want to give advice or remind that there will be another world after this life. VI.   SETTING OF THE TIME AND SPACE The setting in this poem is unclear but basically the writer wanted to illustrated that there would be a life after we had died. VII. SUMMARY §  Theme                    : The life    before and after we die §  Argument             : the poet gave clear illustration the differentiate between this real life and the world to be when we die §  Central idea          : It’s talking about life §  The poet gave advice to the reader to do the better life for the future (the eternity world after we die) VIII.       RHYME AND RHYTHM The rhyme scheme of the poem above is aaa /bbb /ccc /ddd /eee         Upon His Departure Hence by: Robert Herrick Thus I              à  a Pass  by           à  a And die:            a As one              b Unknown         b And gone:        b I’m made          c A shade,           c And laid           c I’ th’ grave:       d There have       d My cave,         d Where tell        e I dwell.            e Farewell.         e The various  rhymes which are used by the writer as follows: One – gone               :  eye rhyme  (some words rhyme in spelling only, but  when we read them, their pronunciation are different) Have – cave              : eye rhyme  (some words rhyme in spelling only, but  when we read them, their pronunciation are different) One – unknown        : slant rhyme (some words only rhyme partially) The rhythm of the poem above is Spondaic Monometer means that, this poem has two syllables per foot, and both syllables are stressed. IX.   KINDS OF STANZA The stanza form of the poem above is not Sonnet (fourteen lines). Because in this poem consists fifteen lines.  It seemed that the poet didn’t tend to create sonnet but he used free style. X.      COMMENT Poem Interpretation, according to me, this poem is a great poem. In this poem the writer try to give advice or remind the readers that this world is not everlasting – even though  the writer used pronoun I –because he didn’t want to teach the reader directly.When people do the better life, he won’t be useless (And die, As one, Unknown) . He can build up the shelter for himself and lives in it ever after - I’m made ,A shade, And laid, I’ th’ grave, There have ,My cave,Where tell,I dwell,Farewell -   (in onather world after he died)