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The speaker makes use of changes in nature and seasons to describe his wife's complex personality.

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The poem is an extended metaphor comparing his wife's mind to a geographical location

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Q1) The poem is an example of an extended metaphor as it compares love and relationship to a journey. It also compares the speaker's wife's mind to a geographical landscape.

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The poem "Marrysong" is an example of an extended metaphor because the poet compares the unexpected and sudden changes in his wife's personality to a landscape that he has to find a way through or navigate himself through.

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- "Year after year that territory, without seasons, shifted under his eye"
- "on turning, see cool water laughing where the day before there were stones in her voice"

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The uses nature as an extended metaphor for his wife's mind and personality to emphasize on its complexity

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The poet uses the seasons in a year to describe his wife's personality. The wife is being described as very unpredictable unlike seasons.

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The write uses the change in seasons and how nature progresses to describe his wife's mind

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"She made wilderness again. Roads disappeared. The map was never true,"

"new country at each jaunty helpless journey"

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the husband compares his wife's sudden change in emotion to a journey he has to navigate through.

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This poem is an example of an extended as the speaker of the poem compares his wife's mind to a landscape that the speaker must navigate

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extended metaphor:
The poem compares different landscapes to his partners mind. He compares being in love to a journey through your partners mind in which you have to navigate through various terrains.

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Q1. The poet uses an extended metaphor to compare the speaker's wife's unpredictable and ever changing moods to a changing landscape.

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1. His love for her and his ability to understand her is being compared to a journey

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Its an extended metaphor because the poet marriage and the unexpectedness of his wife's personality and its compared with lifes journey

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Q1) The speaker compares his wife's mind, thoughts, and emotions, to a journey full of different landscapes.

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2. her love shortened or grew

like trees seen from an unexpected hill,

She made wilderness again.

Roads disappeared

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Q2.  "Year after year

That territory, without seasons, shifted

under his eye." and "suddenly she would change the shape of shores

faultlessly calm"

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Q2)
--> "She made wilderness again"
--> "Landscapes of her mind"

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The poem is an extended metaphor because the poet compares the unexpected moods and personality to a landscape that he has to find a way through or navigate through them

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Q2) "territory without season", "Roads disappeared. The map was never true" and "each jaunty a helpless journey".

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"She made wilderness again.

Roads disappeared. The map was never true." and "tasting of sea - and suddenly she would change the shape of shores faultlessly calm"

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3. Extended sonnet, Free verse

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"Wind brought him rain sometimes, tasting of sea -

and suddenly she would change the shape of shores

faultlessly calm. "
" of her love shortened or grew

like trees seen from an unexpected hill,"

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Phrases:
'That territory without seasons shifted'
'he accepted the geography, constantly strange'

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The extended metaphor is that the poet compares his wife to nature to emphasize on her confusing and complex personality.

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"suddenly she would change the shape of shores"

"trees seen from an unexpected hill"

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There is enjambment used a lot in the poem. The lines not breaking and flowing from one to another represents a train of thought and a complete flow of though and establishes a momentum. The poem resembles a Shakespearean sonnet, but with 3 extra lines.

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"Year after year that territory, without seasons, shifted under his eye."
"Wind brought him rain sometimes, tasting of the sea - and suddenly she would change the shapes of shores faultlessly calm."

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The structure is similar to a sonnet but not exactly the same. The first lines present the problem and the last 3 lines resolve it.  It is a stretched sonnet.

The last two lines are a rhyming couplet like in a Shakespearean sonnet.

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1. The poem is an extended metaphor in which the speaker compares his wife's mind to an unpredictable, capricious, landscape.

2. "Year after year That territory, without seasons, shifted under his eye."
"Roads disappeared. The map was never true."

3. The poem is a stretched sonnet. It has 17 lines. It is a freeverse.

4. The speaker is conflicted with how to understand his wife's mind and emotions.

5. "That territory, without seasons, shifted

under his eye." - time imagery

"Wind brought him rain sometimes, tasting of sea -

and suddenly she would change the shape of shores" - Nature imagery

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The poem is a stretched sonnet with 17 lines. It has no rhyming scheme.

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Year after year

that territory, without seasons, shifted

under his eye.

or turning, see cool water laughing where

the day before there were stones in her voice.

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Q3) The poem is an example of an stretched sonnet. It has 17 lines that follow no rhyming scheme; it is a free verse.

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The speaker's main conflict seems to be with his wife and her changeable personality and her rather moody nature. This conflict is however resolved towards the end of the poem, again resembling a Shakespearean sonnet.

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"Year after year That territory,without seasons, shifted under his eye "

"suddenly she would change the shape of shores faultlessly calm"

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Q3)
This poem's structure almost resembles the structure of a sonnet and like other sonnets, this poem is about love. It is an example of a Stretched Sonnet. The confusion about the speaker's wife's emotions is seen to get resolved in the last couplet of the poem.

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structure and form:
The enjambment mixed with short sentences (like 'he charted' and 'wondered') are used to portray the loose, flowing thoughts of the speaker. It gives the poem a flow, the speaker just lets out what he’s thinking. The poem has momentum which depicts how fast the wife is moving with her thoughts, and how hard it is for the speaker to keep up.

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The poet uses nature to describe ways he sees his wife and what a complex character she is.

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The poem is an extended metaphor, comparing his love to a journey, nature and various other elements

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The speaker's main conflict is that even though he is trying hard to understand his wife's mind he is not able to figure it out as it keeps shifting and changing, "the map was never true."

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4. The speaker is seen to be trying to understand his wife and her feelings for him. He's conflicted with trying to comprehend her emotions and feelings

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The poem is an example of an extended metaphor because throughout the poem, it makes a comparison between the poet's understanding of his wife and her emotions to a journey through different elements in nature.

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She made wilderness again.

Roads disappeared

territory without season

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"The map was never true"
"Wind brought him rain sometimes"

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Q4)
Inability to understand his wife's forever changing mind and emotions.

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Q3. The poem is written in a singular stanza with enjambment used repetitively. It is an example of a stretched sonnet. The poem seems as though one thought is flowing into another. It helps to give the poem momentum and shows how the speaker's wife's moods are constantly changing and how fast the speaker's mind works to keep up with her.

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Its an extended sonet

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Conflict:

The conflict here is that the speaker is unable to keep up with his wife's intermittent emotions and changing moods. The poem causes us to empathize with the speaker as he is trying hard to understand his partner but is unable to.

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Q5)
"An hour he could be lost

in the walled anger of her quarried hurt

on turning, see cool water laughing where

the day before there were stones in her voice.

He charted."

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"See cool water laughing where the day before there were stones in her voice"

"She made wilderness again. Roads disappeared. The map was never true"

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- "She made wilderness again. Roads disappeared. The map was never true."
-  "see cool water laughing where the day before there were stones in her voice"

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The poem contains enjambment and these lines represent how her thoughts flow from one thought to another.

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It is a stretched sonnet. There is enjambment in the first few lines of the poem. This makes the poem have some fluidity. It shows how fast the wife's mind is changing, and it's so hard to understand her.

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The speaker tries to understand his train of thought and her emotions

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Q1- The poem is an example of an extended metaphor as it compares the wife's mind to an unpredictable, changeable territory or landscape.

Q2- "that territory, without seasons, shifted under his eye" and "She made wilderness again".

Q3- This poem has one stanza, and can be considered an stretched sonnet. However, it has no clear rhyme scheme. Enjambment is used to give the poem a sense of flow and reflects the speed with which the wife's mind and emotions change.

Q4- The speaker's main conflict is that he struggles to understand his wife's complex emotions.

Q5- "in the walled anger of her quarried hurt" and "that territory, without seasons, shifted under his eyes".

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Imagery:

'that territory without seasons shifted'
'walled anger of her quarried hurt'

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"Wind brought him rain sometimes, tasting of sea - and suddenly she would change the shape of shores

faultlessly calm."
"Landscapes of her mind"

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territory without seasons shifted
on turning, see cool water laughing where the day before the stones in her voice

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The speaker's conflict is with his wife and how her mind and emotions are constantly changing. However, at the end of the poem, the conflict is sorted out because the speaker accepts that his wife's mood is always going to be constantly changing.

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"She made wilderness again. Roads disappeared. The map was never true."
"An hour could be lost in the walled anger of her quarried hurt on turning, see cool water laughing where the day before there were stones in her voice."