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Loneliness is a blissful thing in the ‘The Daffodils or the inward eye’ however it is horrific in the ‘Miracle of saint David’s day’. In the ‘miracle o. s. day’ it uses short sentences but in ‘Daffodils’ it uses long sentences, there is a brief quote to show my point, “They stretched in a never-ending […]
In this assignment, I am going to discuss how Thomas Hardy makes the incredible events appear credible. To do this I will be examining: the historical contents of the story, with the language used, together with the way the story was structured and by the way that the characters relate to each other. I will […]
The other poem that we have been studying is called “The Voice” and it is about the death of Thomas Hardy’s wife, Emma. The marriage had come to an end and Emma had left Hardy. Later after the split Emma had become ill and she had died tragically. Thomas Hardy had felt remorse and sadness […]
Art has no boundaries because it can take many different forms. Art is not governed by anything except for the creative impulses of the artist and therefore it can manifest itself in countless ways. Two unique types of art are written art and visual art. These two styles are very different but skilled artists can […]
‘One Art’ by Elizabeth Bishop is a poem of desperation and loss. She deals with the themes of reassurance of self, relationships and denial of emotions. The poem describes loss, not as a process, but as an art form that ‘isn’t hard to master’. She tries to convince herself that losing something is ‘no disaster’ […]
Ben Jonson expresses his intense grief for the loss of his son in a creative manner within his poem “On my First Sonne.” By utilizing iambic pentameter and referring to his child as “child of my right hand,” Jonson effectively conveys the depth of his emotions. Additionally, the rhyming stanzas serve to accentuate this sentiment […]
All the poems are about the relationship between parent and child. It evolves around the emotions that connect parent and child and the love or hate that evolves around them.The situation in ‘My Father Thought it Queer’ shows the relationship between Father and Son. We perceive the son’s assertion of independence and the Father’s disapproval. […]
A ballad is a popular way of telling a story. It is part of an oral tradition where the ballad is sung or told aloud. The old surviving ballads were mostly from the middle-ages and mainly Scottish. A lot of the English ones were lost as the written word was used for the spreading of […]
I will be comparing the three poems, Catrin, A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months and Nettles. The parent-child relationships in these three poems are presented very differently, and despite being written on the same topics the poems are very different and show three alternative perspectives on the subject. All […]
The analysis centers on the poem’s theme, encompassing the child’s perspective, the teachers’ ignorance, and the author’s masterful execution. These two poems prompt the reader to compare and contrast the struggles of two children facing difficulties at school. Both characters endure negative experiences caused by their teachers’ lack of comprehension. In “Half Past Two”, the […]
Although the two poems, ‘Break, Break, Break’ and ‘Crossing the Bar’ share a similar major premise, the expression of death through the metaphor of the sea, Tennyson is able to extract two antithetical responses to the subject of death. In ‘Break, Break, Break’, the overwhelming emotions are ones of melancholy, of despair and horror at […]
Simon Armitage, author of ‘Mother any distance’ has written a poem on the pain of moving home and suffering of leaving your parents, from a child’s point of view. This is similar to the poem, ‘On my first Sonne’ written by Ben Jonson where his child has already left him as the child has sadly […]
The Beggar Woman The Beggar Woman was written around 1663 to 1712, by William King. William King worked as a lawyer and judge but wrote poems as a hobby. It can be led to believe that his job may have influenced him to write the Beggar woman, because of some acts of injustice that he […]
By reading E.E. Cummings’ poem “In Just”, one can identity several examples of figurative language that Cummings used in his poem to convey themes of childhood. For example, the language that he used is referring to a child’s language such as “mud-luscious” and “puddle-wonderful”. Cummings used these words to describe simple descriptions of what an […]
“Warning” written by Jenny Joseph and “Old Man, Old Man” by U., both contain cautionary themes. Although they both depict old age, Fanthorpe and Jenny Joseph differ in their portrayal of it. Warning is a defiant piece that cautions against the perils of growing old, while Old Man Old Man illuminates the evolving dynamics between […]
In this essay I am going to be comparing and contrasting the style of which William King and Andrew Marvel present the relationships between the gentlemen and mistresses in the poems ‘The Beggar Woman’ and ‘To His Coy Mistress’ In both poems, the gentlemen are trying to persuade the mistresses to have sex with them; […]
In To His Coy Mistress and A Woman to Her Lover, different loves are portrayed and the way the poets have shown the attitudes towards love are form, structure, different rhyme schemes, altering tones of voice and punctuation. There are two main types of love in To His Coy Mistress; there is a desire for […]
The relationships that the poems I have studied are about parents’. I understand that the two poems that I have studied have extremely different views on their parents. The two poems that I have looked at are “Boy driving his father to confession. ” by Seamus Heaney and “A praise song for my mother. ” […]
This poem sounds as if an old man wrote it, however the poet was merely 23 years old when this poem was published. The entire poem is very poignant and tragic in tone and the main reason why I get the impression of an old man as the narrator is because the poet seems to […]
In this essay I will be examining a selection of two 20th century poems, which are “Unholy Marriage written by David Holbrook and Street Accident by Richard Church”. I will be comparing and contrasting the two 20th century poems. I will closely examine and analyse in details the subject matter, the structure and the language […]
A sonnet is a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter, which means each line has 10 syllables with 5 stressed and 5 unstressed. Sonnets typically follow a strict rhyme scheme and often have regular breaks, like the one in this case, after the eighth line. The first eight lines of both poems, known as the […]
The pain of aging, of slowly feeling the fire and passion flickering out is portrayed in “Night Sweat” by Robert Lowell. Simply put it is of a man with an illness and his disorganised thought and feelings but deeper, there is his fear and his agony as he feels his youth and its hopes and […]
