Poetic Analysis ‘Magpies’ ‘Magpies’ by Judith Wright is a captivating and fun poem, which explains the two completely different personalities of magpies. In this poem, the poet positions the reader to see nature as mature, prim and proper, but also extremely greedy and selfish. It successfully uses imagery, movement and sound devices to do this. The poetic devices similes, personification, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration and assonance will be examined in this essay. This poem is about magpies, animals that are mature and relaxed, but when food appears they lose these attributes and adopt a greedy and selfish behavior.
The direction and theme of "a barred owl" and "the history teacher", are quite similar, causing them to follow similar lines of diction. The titles of both of these poems speak of wisdom and knowledge of what has been. In each poem, the world around them is not necessarily friendly, and the characters are forced to watch carefully. The history teacher uses the rhyme scheme (aa,bb,cc,dd,ee,ff), while the owl uses the same exact rhyme scheme. in many ways these poems are similar, and very beautiful.
One difference between The Lamb and The Tyger is how one is innocent and fragile and the other is more experience and rough. In the quote “Softest clothing wooly bright/Gave thee such a tender voice,/Making all the vales rejoice! (Lines 7-9)”. The Lamb is considered to be about an innocence, the questioning of the gentle lamb and how it knows of its creator and the hope it gives. The Tyger is something more sinister and complicated.
Pi shows discontent with how people spoke of zoo's being prisons for animals, versus the safe-havens he saw them as. He expresses their thoughts as "..not the way it is" (16). Here one might question that the zoo is a metaphor for religion and animals being humans. Animals have needs to happily survive such as food, water and shelter; humans basic needs for happy survival are hope and some sort of belief. Animals in the wild represent "un-saved souls" and those animals who live within the safety of the zoo represent "saved souls" who are promised love and eternal-care.
For example, the two birds mentioned, Betty and Abel had cognitive abilities.They were able to figure out how to get the food out of a tube with a wire that was provided to them. When we think of animals, we think of them as dumb, innocent, or just plain stupid. The reason being is that we as humans think very highly of ourselves. This is true in many cases, I for one thought this. Dogs for example are possess the ability to find something hidden in the ground because of their very strong sense of smell.
ESSAY ON A BRIDGE TO WISEMAN’S COVE IN WHAT WAYS IS CARL MOST LIKES THE OSPREY IN A BRIDGE TO WISEMAN’S COVE? There are many ways that Carl Matt is like the Osprey in a Bridge to Wiseman’s cove. But I will only give you 3 ways that Carl Matt is like the Osprey. Firstly He is like the Osprey because he is like a prey and in one part of the book Bruce is like the predator. Also Carl is weak and he is like caged like the Osprey, he doesn’t like showing his fleshy bulges because he is scared that people would tease him and Carl is scared to stand up for himself.
An example for this would be animals, I love animals but I am much more fond of dogs over cats, and horses over cows. I believe that everyone has some aspect of narrow-mindedness. The next section in the Big Five Personality Test is conscientiousness. Receiving a score of 67% for this section, with high scorers demonstrating strong organizational skills, reliability, and careful behavior, whereas low scorers are considered undependable and disorganized (John et al., 1999). I believe that the results I received for this trait are accurate.
‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ by William Blake ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ is a collection of poems by W.Blake and its main purpose is to reflect the two contrary states of the human soul. As we can understand from the title, the poems are written under two different categories which tell us the shifting and the transformation of the human soul through life. ‘Innocence’, in this case, can be a referrence to the state of man before the ‘fall’ from heaven—and also from grace of God — into the world of knowledge. With the central figures such as lamb, child, flower, piper etc. , Innocence can be considered according to Blake’s view as the primary state of the human soul.
Within my two chosen poems, Hughes’ distinctive style is evident throughout. Second Glance at a Jaguar is a poem about a caged jaguar. Although the majority of Hughes’ poetry presents the power and dominance of nature opposed to that of man. The jaguar is considered as majestic and regal, however in this particular poem it is portrayed as weak and graceless. This is evident where Hughes writes “A gorged look, Gangster club-tail lumped along behind gracelessly”.
Outline Thesis Statement: “The Lamb” is a Christian poem written by William Blake that utilizes a lamb to symbolize and explain how God created everything in the universe. i. Introduction with paragraph with thesis ii. William Blake and the poem a. English poet b. The Lamb -1789 c. Published in “Songs of Innocence” d. Rhyme scheme - AA BB CC DD AA AA EF GG FE AA e. Intended to be sung, original melody is now lost iii.