The lame goat is a story of deep meaning that is trying to be portrayed by the author. The author is trying to portray one big moral or ideal through this story. At first sight this story looks like one of those random write whatever you want kind of poems. But at second look you can see that it is much, much more. You can see that there are many different interpretations to this story.
The Paradox of Language: An Explication of P.K. Page’s “Cook’s Mountains”* As the title of the poem suggests, P.K. Page’s “Cook’s Mountains” is a poem about possession. It is also about the transition from a pre-verbal state to a “named” or verbal state. The poem points to the paradox of naming: while naming is creative and powerful, it is also limiting.
Compare and contrast the methods which the two poets use to explore the theme of love in two poems you have studied. John Montague and Seamus Heaney are two of the most renowned Irish poets, both writing in the post 1960s. Although many of their poem focus on love contain references to love and human relationships the two which I feel focus most on this theme are “All Legendary Obstacles” by John Montague from ‘A Chosen Light’ and “The Skunk” by Seamus Heaney. Both titles are quite ambiguous as neither point directly to the theme of romance. The title if Heaney’s poem is only made clear after reading the poem as you do not expect “The Skunk” to have any connotations with his wife.
Thus, the poem is his perspective, his interpretation, his perception of the events of that day and consequently – as inferred within the poem-of their lives together. For this reason, it is subjective. Through the use of flashback, we are given a double perspective, one of the young, naive Ted Hughes who has limited life experiences and is about to fall in love with the young talented American writer on the photograph, and that of an older reflective poet who is influenced by the disastrous relationship that developed. The last line reveals this conflict: • At twenty-five I was dumbfounded afresh By my ignorance of the simplest things. Hughes hindsight doubtlessly creates tension within the poem - tension between what he remembers and what he has since learned.
The form of Thomas’s poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” provides rhyme, repetition, and length that present the concealed theme to fight death. For one thing, adding rhyme to his poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” Dylan Thomas uses this technique of form to offer the dominant idea, fighting death. When Thomas uses rhyme in his poem he provides the audience with words that define the theme. For instance, in addition to rhyming, Thomas uses words metaphorically in each stanza of his work. Metaphoric words are used as a figure of speech to compare two objects, but not taken literally.
As I tried to figure out what have I read I found several interpretation of this work but they did not fit to my conceptions or to say my ideas. Many scholars wrote several critical essays and resource papers on this story and of course they focused on several different things but rewriting history. According to Christopher James – who won the national poetry competition in 2009 – this novel is: “Essentially it’s Robinson Crusoe meets Bear Grylls meets Life of Pi set in the 1940s and in the bleakest possible surroundings.”(James). That is one side of this multi shaped coin. After this I searched further interpretation of the text and I found Howard Babb’s words who said that many critics found this novel Golding’s most challenging book (Babb 65).
William Blake's Concept of "Desire" William Blake was a noted poet and painter who was a forefather of the Romantic period in the18th century. Known by his peers as being an eccentric "visionary", he was obsessed with thoughts and concepts that were beyond the level of knowledge of most humans. Blake was critical of religion and yet very spiritual, trying to solve many questions that were left unanswered and was continually trying to reach a state of transcendence. His creative thinking seems to refer to God's nature and power as being wholly independent of our physical knowledge. Although assaying to reach transcendence as a whole being, he transfers this quest through immanence in some of his poems.
Lit 5-125 Workshop in Critical Writing: Poetry 20 December 2012 The Inseparability of the Past and Identity The idea of the past has always been a matter of concern to people. Ha Jin’s poem “The Past” touches upon this concern by trying to trace the significance that the past holds for each individual and how it is supposed to be linked to one’s present and being. Through some kind of internal monologue, the speaker is making an effort to deal with his own past, to understand it and accept it. Although he is uncertain of how to do this in the beginning, he gradually takes it for granted and decides to make the best out of it, transforming it into a renewed self-image based on his needs. In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker expresses his initial thoughts and feelings about his past.
The Growing up of John Donne in his Love Poetry “Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time” is a quote from John Donne which talks about how love defies time however he did not always have such an optimistic view of love. John Donne was a writer in the 1700s’ who used the theme of love in quite a few of his poems. Donne can be a pessimistic poet, which often creates misunderstandings in both the theme of love and how the poem is written. Since love is so unclear and there is nothing definite about love, it makes it difficult to write about and often misunderstood says R.V. Young (251).
Comparison of John Keats’ “To Autumn” And “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” John Keats wrote many poems in his time, two of his most famous pieces are “To Autumn” and “La Belle Sans Merci.” However, he uses different styles for his works. An example of his different styles is the fact that he uses an ode and a ballad respectively for these poems. The fact that he uses an ode for “To Autumn” means it is addressed to somebody or something. It contains classical features, written in stanzas and containing pentameters. It is also very complicated and quite difficult to understand.