In this essay I will be comparing to Poems, Brothers and Sister Maude and how they present siblinb relationships. Brothers explores the relationship between siblings and the way in which time inevitably - and regrettably - separates them. There is affection between the brothers, particularly in the love of the younger boy. In Sister Maude a much more destructive relationship between siblings is presented. Like Brothers, this poem hints at the way in which the move towards adulthood brings a distance between siblings.
Throughout the poem the narrator refers to her sister in a profoundly negative way saying that she “lurked to spy and peer” suggesting that Maude is sneaky and nosy. She also says that her lover would never have looked at Maude and is, again, referring to her sister in a negative way but it also contains jealous undertones, which suggests that maybe the narrator’s lover did in fact show feelings towards Maude too. “Brothers” is a poem about a youthful boy spending an afternoon with his younger brother and his friend and describes the relationship between siblings just as it does in “Sister Maude.” It is written from an adult perspective but considers the feelings of the older brother who thinks of his younger brother as an inconvenience. Through the use of verbs the feelings towards the characters are conveyed. In the first stanza the narrator and his friend
This novel used many literary devices that contributed to the conflict; three of those literary devices being situational irony, foreshadowing, and diction. One of the literary devices presented in the novel is situational irony. Isabel brought up the fact that her best friend, Taylor, had been “begging her to bring her to Cousins forever and that she hated that they did not share everything—every moment and every experience (Han, 67).” This is an example of situational irony because although Taylor states that she wanted to “share every moment” (with who? ), she ended up forgetting the reason why she came to Cousins Beach. (It was) to be with Isabel, not Conrad, Jeremiah, or Steven.
Critical Essay – The Choosing “The Choosing” by Liz Lochhead is a poem that shows a vivid personal experience. It is a poem where the poet and her childhood friend – Mary – end up growing apart because of choices Mary’s parents made. The theme of the poem is that the choices that are made by our parents can affect your future. I will be discussing how Lochhead uses several different techniques to help show a vivid personal experience. At the beginning of the poem, where she tells us about the girls’ time at primary school, the poet uses repetition to emphasise how alike the girls were.
Atonement, A love story between Robbie and Cecilia, takes place during the 1930’s. Robbie, an ordinary helper of the Tallis family is taken away from his one true love, Cecilia, as the story depicts the driving forces of love bringing them back to each other in a twisted tale of Briony’s imagination. In Ian McEwan's novel, published in 2001, the book uses rhetorical and literary techniques to develop its story. The highlight of the novel, being the use of different perspectives including from the point of view of Briony, Robbie, Cecilia, and Emily Tallis. While the book focuses on multiple different perspectives, the movie adaption released by director Joe Wright in 2007, depicts the three major points of view of the novel.
..Explain The Feelings Of The Two Poets Towards Their Younger Brother Or Sister In the poems ‘Mid-term Break’ by Seamus Heaney and ‘Poem for My Sister’ by Liz Lochhead feelings about a younger sibling are expressed. In ‘Poem for My Sister’ Liz Lochhead uses shoes and feet as a metaphor for life and experiences. ‘My little sister likes to try my shoes’ seems to echo the well known saying ‘put yourself in someone else’s shoes’ meaning in their place. This shows that her sister likes to try out being in the same position as Lochhead: as an adult. “She says they fit perfectly, but wobbles on their high heels, they’re hard to balance” shows that Lochhead’s sister wants the shoes to fit but isn’t steady in them, meaning that although she wishes to be an adult she isn’t ready yet.
Reuben has two siblings, Swede and Davy. Swede is his younger sister who loves literature and likes to write poems and eventually writes a story of their adventures across the country. Davy is Reuben’s older brother who is very protective of his family. Jeremiah catches two bullies, Israel Finch and Tommy Basco, trying to rape Davy’s girlfriend
A well renowned confessional poem is Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’ which is addressed to her deceased father; the poem explores and refers to the holocaust in a child-like mellifluous rhythm, synthesising a nursery rhyme tone. Perhaps this conveys Plath’s grief of losing her father when she was young. First of all, the opening line of 'Morning song' “Love set you going like a fat gold watch,” introduces the concept of motherhood as the subject matter of the poem, conveying how the persona, feasibly Plath values and ‘ loves’ her child. The extent of the worth and appreciation of the child is emphasised by the simile ‘like a fat gold watch’ in the notion that the new life represents a likeness of the precious metal and how the persona’s value is similar to that of the admiration that man has for gold. Perhaps, ‘fat’ signifies the sheer size of the Child’s body and how much of a marvel it is that it was inside her for nine months
It is easy to mistake Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera as a fairytale ending storybook romance, in which two ill-fated lovers eventually consummate their lifelong relationship. Although the two lovers eventually find one another after practically a lifetime, the novel is scattered with the motif of love as a decaying illness, cholera, and aging as a repulsive lifestyle. Florentino Ariza dedicates his whole life to nurturing his shattered heart. In which was broken by his life love Fermina Daza in their youth. The novel follows both characters through out their love affairs, imprudent families, and memories of the deadly illness Cholera and how it emerges and wipes out a massive amount of the population in Colombia.
The Cousin Obed Ramotswe’s cousin had a good influence on Precious Ramatswe. Throughout the novel we learn how strong their relationship was and how the cousin helped her to develop. The cousin was married, but when her husband found out she could not have children they divorced. She went to live with her mother in a very small three-walled room. Her mother was very disappointed in her and treated her without respect or caring.