Mametz Wood is a poem by Owen Sheers. It was made after he visited the site of a WW1 battlefield on the Somme in France. Walking through the field, Sheers noticed that shells, pieces of barbed wire and fragments of human bones were still to be found coming to the surface after so many years. Memories In the horror of finding the bodies of dead soldiers are presented in Mametz wood this is shown in the opening lines of Mametz Wood Sheers says that with the quote “,The wasted young turning up under their plough blades”. This suggests that the soldiers should not have died.
The simile and hyperbole evoke a sense of his dedication to his garden and his paternal feelings towards it, connecting to this place like a father connects to an only child. His sense of belonging also comes from his close connection to his Polish friends who "reminisced about farms where paddocks flowered and “Horses they bred" The accumulation of positive verbs conveys a sense of their longing and shared pride in their cultural heritage that brings them together Peter doesn’t choose not to belong with his father's Polish friends but rather looks on as he can’t connect with the place they talk about. The negative connotations of "violently" create a sense of his alienation from them. When Peter says he "never got used to" the friends' "formal address" of his father he is further suggesting his disconnection of not belonging with his father's heritage. Instead, he is "stumbling over tenses in Caesar's Gallic War", forgetting his "first Polish word."
(Clugston, 2010). A boy’s reflection of days and season’s gone by. This making me feels the emotion of missing my hometown and the wonderful fruit that has been grown throughout my own childhood and walking down the roads back in 1975, instead of 1995. The same state and area of that state, the same winters, the same roads of which I had walked many times with my Sister’s and other family members. Nostalgically wonderful author and narration of this poem and poet.
Poetry Analysis Jeannine Yeager ENG125: Introduction to Literature Julie Pal-Agrawal March 12, 2012 Poetry Analysis of “ORANGES” The poem “Oranges” by Gary Soto is a poem about first love, young love. Most of Gary Soto’s poetry defines living in the agricultural areas of Central California and being Mexican-American. The struggles and experiences of the farm hands as they travel from farm to farm searching for work and not having enduring relationships because of all the moving around, these themes are all over Mr. Soto’s work. The poem “Oranges” shows the impact of this life style. When the young man who is narrating the poem first takes his girlfriend for a walk and they go to a store, the girl picks out a chocolate that costs
By Daniel Siwecki By Daniel Siwecki Commentary on “Summer Farm” written by Norman MacCaig MacCaig uses his poem summer farm in an attempt to teach of a new way for mankind to see themselves, the world and their place within it. He attempts to teach the reader of a new view of the world through describing the idyllic scenery of the summer farm, through using vivid imagery and complex metaphors to allow the reader to realise a truth. MacCaig begins through describing the scene in third person, as if the narrator is present but is existing and witnessing this in a state of transcendence, with no reference to self or involvement in existence in any way what so ever. While existing in this state of a free or transcendent mind as MacCaig is able to exist in his surroundings without any sense of physical being or existence within a mind that is created through past experience of immanence and provision for the future that confines the majority of mankind preventing us from being able to “lie about the grass” and witness the beauty of the world fully as each moment is created before our eyes with us being made a new too rather than “staring at nothing with one eye” and constantly living in either our memory of the past or our plans for the future, never truly focused and immersed in the world that will only ever exist in all of time once and that can never be created again; much like our lives we are but a “swallow that falls out of an empty sky, flickers through the barn and then dives up again into the dizzy blue”. MacCaig learns of the potential of mankind to experience vivid existence within every moment of life as he sees the “straws like tame lightning lie about the grass” from this metaphor like people these straws live their lives “lying about the grass” as “tame lightning” never truly achieving their powerful potential for life as they remain “tame” and
In the novel 'of Mice and Men' written by John Steinbeck, one of the protagonist who names George travels with his friend Lennie, they find a new job in the ranch and try to adapt themselves to new circumstance. During this time, they meet an old swamper whose name is Candy. Generally, Candy and George are different because they have different backgrounds, and they are similar because they have the same wishes about their futures. To start with, the reason why George chooses to come and work on the ranch is that Lennie and George have no choice but to leave their hometown. In the novel, George and his friend Lennie worked in their hometown-- Weed.
“The only thing that keeps you from fulfilling your dreams is you.” -Marsha Norman, American playwright, screenwriter, television writer and novelist. Candy’s dream of working on the farm with George and Lennie almost becomes a reality because he has the money and help to do it. One of his handicaps is that he is old. His other handicap was that he has only one hand and a stump at the end of his other arm. But his dream came crashing down when he realized his handicaps would alter his future.
John Steinbeck’s novel contained many examples of symbolism including; the dream house, hands, soft things, Candy’s dog, and the river. First of all, a dreamer is a person who lives in a world of unrealistic fantasy’s that they long for. The dream farm was the first symbol mentioned in the novel. George explains it to be a safe place. A place where they will grow their own food, have many rabbits, and raise livestock.
He was self built from the ground up. Whitman was self educated, independent, intelligent, and unique in many ways. Although most of his life he was alone, he left a mark on American by his writs of poetry which were influenced by Emerson himself. He struggled through life, desperately looking for an alternative to becoming a farm boy. This in turn, led to a failure in teaching, personal failure of his newspaper, and going through a fictional writing phase.
Arthur Miller makes constant references to nature and farming in Death of a Salesman. These references represent the successes and failures in the Loman household, thus illustrating the dream and how it is forgotten and/or passed up shortsightedly(A seed can be associated with a future and foundation for life; when the seed is no longer present, a future is positive future is in sight). As one reads A Death of a Salesman, they can depict that shortsightedness is not beneficial when making a choice. One must look in the long run a work