She denies the seriousness of loss and the sadness it brings by highlighting the commoness of loss and depicting its nature not as a process but as an “art”, evading its disastrous nature. However the poet eventually comes to the realisation of the disastrous effect of losing a person and seems to waver in her opinion. In the first half of the poem Elizabeth Bishop portrays the nature of loss as a common occurrence on a everyday basis and argues that it is not as bad as people claim it to be. The poem’s title “One Art” subtly takes away the pejorative connotation associated with loss and emphasizes that people should accept loss as it is. The poet’s indifference to loss is revealed in the statement “so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster”, highlighting that loss occurs commonly, like any other daily activity, and should not be allowed to let it upset ourselves.
Both types of literature are also types of art. Unlike popular belief, the presence of a moral doesn’t relate to literature being commercial or literary. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber prevents the hunting narrative to dominate human relations and struggles for power. This makes the short story literary fiction, unlike
Philip Larkin and Dannie Abse have very different and contrasting attitudes to relationships. On the whole, Larkin presents the concepts of love and marriage as very superficial and meaningless, whereas Abse appears to be less such nihilistic and more open and positive about such topics. Throughout Wild Oats, Philip Larkin uses various literary techniques, such as imagery, structure and symbolism to convey certain aspects of love and the passing of time. Larkin's poetry often relates to the social and cultural views upon love and marriage in his time. In Wild Oats It explains that a person, over the course of time, comes to realise that his greatest desires of love, are unattainable, and second best things will have to suffice.
It’s human nature to judge people we don’t know. It’s our minds way of protecting ourselves. If someone seems out of the ordinary, his or her actions may be as well. Judgment allows us to keep our distance and ensure that being naïve isn’t the last thing we do. John Berryman’s, “the Traveler,” is a poem about a nomadic man who is always different from the people around him.
While he is not seen as a saint within the poem (he remarks in a sarcastic matter to Plath in the poem), he positions the reader to empathise with him, painting the image that he is the placid one in the relationship, and the one who encourages her to embark on her creative pursuits “Get that shoulder under your stanzas/ And we’ll be away.”. The repeated use of the pronoun “your” creates an accusatory tone, suggesting that they were living Plath’s life, rather than their life. The poem also hints that Plath’s father was a monster. He describes her father as a goblin that influenced and controlled the mind of Plath’s. He even goes one step further
.” that makes it so natural to equate "something" with the speaker. The reader joins the speaker in sympathizing with this mysterious "something" and hence in opposing the neighbor's unthinking defense of walls. By the time the poem ends, this line has acquired some of the pat stupidity of a slogan. He said it for himself." Elves may mean not willowy things out of Tolkien but darker forces of the wood, for the next image is one of darkness.
AP English 9-23 “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth has both literal and interpretive SOAPStone’s. The literal subject on the poem is nature (field of daffodils, clouds), but the connotation of the subject is that a person should not be miserable because they have minor problems, in the quote “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (line 1) the speaker is alone but in “a poet could not be but gay” (line 15) explains that the speaker may be “lonely” but he finds/notices the positive rather than the negative. The denotative occasion in “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is romantic because of the poems connection to nature (examples of a connection to nature is the use of words such as “clouds” “vales, hills” and “daffodils”), the connotative is similar to the denotative but it also includes the comparison between people to nature. The literal audience of the poem is the general romantic crowds (mainly in the romantic era), the profound audience are people the speaker wants to notice/appreciate natures positives and beauty, most lines of the poem use personification (in this case human traits to nature within a field of daffodils) in situations that would seem undesirable if used with human figures rather than natural figures such as “daffodils … fluttering and dancing in the breeze”(lines 4-6) which give a pleasant image to the reader. The literal purpose of the poem is to inspire the reader to be outside and enjoy nature, but the deeper purpose of the poem is to encourage the reader to be more optimistic/or look at the positive, when the speaker states that he is lonely he also mentions natures beauty and clarifies “a poet could not but be gay” because of his experience with nature.
‘Spring’s here, Winter’s not gone’ – Discuss ways in whichThomas presents uncertainty in ‘But these things also’ Uncertainty is a a huge theme that runs throughout the entirity of Thomas’ poetry, particularly in the poem ‘But these things also’. He does this by using a variaty of techniques suchas his choice of imagery, language and also the lack of rhyme. Thomas used this lack of a rhyme scheme to show the reader that he felt poetry shouldn’t be twisted to fit a certain mould. Thomas often used nature as a topic for his poems, because as a poet he felt he could relate to the uncertainty of it, and this becomes clear to the reader within ‘But these things also’. Immediately as a reader we are thrown into the theme of uncertainty due to the ambigious title.
Although belonging is about the desire of acceptance, a study of Peter Skrzynecki’s poetry and Von Trapped, depicts a compromise between one’s personal vision and the demands enacted by society. Whilst protagonists may be instinctively drawn to belonging, without a strong emotional, cultural and philosophical connection, they may suffer feelings of alienation and detachment. Evoking a sense of discomfort and disassociation, Skrzynecki’s poem ‘In the folk Museum’, explores the struggle of an individuals search for cultural certainty and emotional connection in order to belong. This positions Skrzynecki in a world where he can find no personal satisfaction. Skrzynecki’s feelings of estrangement are registered through the establishment of
Understanding nourishes belonging and a lack of understanding prevents it. Demonstrate how your prescribed text and ONE other related text of your own choosing demonstrates this interpretation of belonging. An individuals understanding of both themselves and the wider world nourishes their sense of belonging within a community, however the converse also applies; as a lack of this understanding can prevent a feeling of belonging. This perspective is supported in Steven Herrick’s free verse novel, “The Simple Gift”, where Billy’s lack of connection to his home in Nowheresville and his resultant alienation is juxtaposed with his acceptance and understanding of his place within his Benderat ‘community’ and his corresponding sense of fulfilment. The film, “August Rush”, directed by Kristen Sheridan, similarly supports this interpretation of the relationship