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    Away Melancholty

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    In her poem "Away Melancholy", Stevie Smith uses imagery and contrast to convey a message about banishing melancholy. She describes the beauty of nature in the second stanza to make the persona question their sadness. The sounds and images of rivers, trees, wind, and fire create a sense of continuity that urges enjoying sights over indulging in sadness. Smith also depicts how humans still cry "Love, love" even when dying, showing humanity's unbreakable commitment to love. Through contrasting images of ants living only for work with humans' capacity for belief in love, the poet highlights what makes humanity superior and gives readers strength to banish melancholy.

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    Away Melancholty

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    In her poem "Away Melancholy", Stevie Smith uses imagery and contrast to convey a message about banishing melancholy. She describes the beauty of nature in the second stanza to make the persona question their sadness. The sounds and images of rivers, trees, wind, and fire create a sense of continuity that urges enjoying sights over indulging in sadness. Smith also depicts how humans still cry "Love, love" even when dying, showing humanity's unbreakable commitment to love. Through contrasting images of ants living only for work with humans' capacity for belief in love, the poet highlights what makes humanity superior and gives readers strength to banish melancholy.

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    In her poem "Away Melancholy", Stevie Smith uses imagery and contrast to convey a message about banishing melancholy. She describes the beauty of nature in the second stanza to make the persona question their sadness. The sounds and images of rivers, trees, wind, and fire create a sense of continuity that urges enjoying sights over indulging in sadness. Smith also depicts how humans still cry "Love, love" even when dying, showing humanity's unbreakable commitment to love. Through contrasting images of ants living only for work with humans' capacity for belief in love, the poet highlights what makes humanity superior and gives readers strength to banish melancholy.

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    Away Melancholty

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    In her poem "Away Melancholy", Stevie Smith uses imagery and contrast to convey a message about banishing melancholy. She describes the beauty of nature in the second stanza to make the persona question their sadness. The sounds and images of rivers, trees, wind, and fire create a sense of continuity that urges enjoying sights over indulging in sadness. Smith also depicts how humans still cry "Love, love" even when dying, showing humanity's unbreakable commitment to love. Through contrasting images of ants living only for work with humans' capacity for belief in love, the poet highlights what makes humanity superior and gives readers strength to banish melancholy.

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    In her poem, “Away Melancholy” how does Smith use contrast and imagery
    effectively in order to convey a message?

    In the poem, ”Away Melancholy”, by Stevie Smith set in a sad, and beautiful world, the
    persona suffers through severe sadness, causing them to question the world around them.
    The poet seeks to banish melancholy from the minds of its readers. To convey this message,
    Smith uses imagery of nature, human’s morality and  contrasting images between animals
    and humans.

    The visuals of nature’s beauty in the second stanza makes the persona question their
    sadness’s existence. The images of the 4 elements “rivers”, “trees”, “wind” and “fire”
    combined with the ‘g’ sounds to create a sense of continuity in the mind of the reader. This
    urges them to enjoy the sight rather than indulging in their sadness. It also helps the reader
    to understand how petty their melancholy is compared to the running ecosystem of nature.
    Causing them to get rid of their sadness that is tormenting them.

    The images of human’s morality helps the readers understand the world around them. The
    poet describes how humans, when dying still, “heave up an eye above/ cries, Love, love”. This
    highlights an important feature of the world, that even in their darkest time, humans would
    not want to hurt somebody else. It shows the unbreakable commitment to love seen on earth,
    through the serious emotional strength in humanity. Even Though, the world around them
    might look empty, though human’s capacity for the belief of love should wash melancholy
    clear. Giving the reader more strength to banish melancholy.

    The poet through the use of contrasting images between animals and humans is able to
    highlight the superlativeness of humanity. The poet first describe the life of an ant,

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