Taha Hamdan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Professor Scanlan
11/7/22
 
                                                                         Explication 
 
In the poem, “A Rhyme For Halloween “by Maurice Kilwein Guevara, He is describing about how he is feeling excited when he says “Tonight I light the candles of my eyes in the lee “.Throughout my essay I’m going to be using consonance,contation, alliteration and denotation.  The poem starts in the beginning as how he is amazed about the wonders that he is seeing while continuing to read it starts to dwindle down since the nighttime is on its way while the sun is setting. This line uses alliteration while it can also be interpreted as a sort of symbol or something symbolic since in the line after he goes on to say “And swing down this branch full of red leaves “which also can be used as a symbolic gesture since it can signify that it can be the changing of the weather as if to say it was within the fall. 
 
In the line “tonight I light the candles of my eyes in the lee “consonance is found in light and 
lee. 
While Consonance is found in that line, he goes on to say, “I hear the undertaker make love in the heather; the candy maker, poor fellow, is under the weather “assonance is found in “heather” and “weather” within the letter (e).
 While these two lines can signify that making love in the heather could be something that he is struggling to go through or is explaining that it is during the night which can be used as a negative statement due to the next line also stating that “the candy maker, poor fellow, is under the weather “.
 Which can also signify a negative influence or thing happening during his poem. This can be described as expressive language due to it being negative and the setting which is during a dark or the night as a negative connotation since it is dark and gloomy as he uses the word heather.