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.
Some turn to drugs, some take drastic measures; however Sylvia Plath and Brian Patten, like many others, turn to poetry to convert emotions that they have experienced, into poems people all over the world can relate to. Loss and Isolation proves to be a recurring theme and is used throughout each poem to such an extent that it may bring forward emotions in the reader similar to the poet. Poetry like music is often used to express feelings by using another voice and effectively hide behind the words to share things that would be too difficult to talk about. All three poems do this extremely effectively and reflect the poet’s state of mind within the structure, stanza length and rhyme scheme. Following Plath’s depression and death of her father it is not surprising that the majority of her poetry reflects her unhappiness and shows certain desperation as if trying to escape the real world for a small while.
Marvi Shaikh Ms. Devitt ENG3UI Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 Poet’s View On “Oppression” Oppression means prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control over someone or something. It’s also known as persecution, abuse, mental pressure or distress (www.dictionary.refrence.com). Oppression is a common topic for authors and poets to write about. The poet Jimmy Santiago Baca also used Oppression as his topic in his poem called “Oppression”. The poem talks about equality and justice from Baca’s point of view.
How has T. S. Eliot utilised specific elements of his form to engage varying audiences intellectually and emotionally? T.S. Eliot’s ‘Preludes’ and ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ explore the self-consciousness caused by the intense pessimism of a toxic urban world, which leads to passivity and a lack of agency. Eliot uses varying elements of the form of poetry to present the major concepts of his modernist context, the conflict between the individual and society, disempowerment and time and the ritualistic nature of life, which also allow him to intellectually and emotionally engage a present day audience. Eliot portrays life as tarnished through urban decay, which is typical of the modernist era.
'Mending Wall' is an interesting poem that is symbolic of the differences in human thinking on barriers Robert Frost is known to make use of nature and pathetic fallacies in his poems and a lot of symbolism that leaves the reader to imagine what he really means,making his poems highly subjective. In this piece, Frost has used words and phrases that we could draw parallels with,he uses a sense of underlying meanings with these phrases. In the title itself, ‘Mending wall’ the poet lets us know that the poem is about a wall or a fence,but later the reader realizes that it’s more than just the words on the surface that Frost wants us to recognize. The poet refers to the wall as a solid object but also a psychological or invisible wall,this wall signifies the differences between the two neighbors. Ironically,when the wall is actually supposed to separate two beings,this wall reunites the two neighbors ,this is seen in the title ‘Mending wall’,where one might suggest that this is grammatically incorrect, what Frost might actually be intending is that the poem is more about the wall mending the relationship between the two individuals than the two merely mending the wall itself !This wall maybe built due to differences in thoughts and ideas or merely just because of social awkwardness of the two characters.
How far do you agree with the view that stagnation and inactivity dominate the worlds of Tennyson’s poems? When it comes to Tennyson’s poetry, there are some aspects in which the poems are dealing with things like stagnation and inactivity. For example, in poems such as Mariana, The Lotos-eaters, Tithonus and also The Lady of Shalott, there is much stagnation and inactivity which consume the poems and also the main personas. On the other hand, with poems like Ulysses and Godiva, you have the personas wanting to get out there and do something. You can see in Mariana that there has been a lot of inactivity lately as you have moss growing and nails rusting.
With reference to holy books, example; the Bible, Quran, and others,there are rules to live by written in words. These rules would be utterly useless without persons in the belief to follow in actions or, more so, to carry out the religious act. Les Murray in his poem, “ Poetry and Religion”, is trying to make readers aware of the relationship between poetry and religion. He uses different scenarios to make it clear to readers, which the literary device, personification is used a number of times. A great similarity in poetry and religion is the repetition of love, ‘ Full religion is the large poem
This poem, “Villanelle” by Marilyn Hacker, could be interpreted in a couple ways such as the distance between couples in a relationship or the distance between societies as a whole. I believe the speaker could be speaking of the general population or perhaps a relationship that has become stale, routine, and no longer appreciates why they are together in the first place. The speaker makes the poem relatable in these ways, whether the reader might feel lost in a relationship or alone in society. In this poem, the author seems to yearn to define the distance a person or a people have between them. “Every day our bodies separate, explode torn and dazed, not understanding what we celebrate.” (1-3) I believe this means how people go on with their day to day, not realizing how they are connected to each other and don’t understand how our unity should give us reason to celebrate.
“Where I Come From”, a poem written by Elizabeth Brewster, explores the differences in the lifestyles and beliefs of city and country people, with a clear personal bias towards the latter. On the other hand, “A Different History”, written by Sujata Bhatt, discusses the effect of colonization on a culture, specifically referring to the case of India. Both Elizabeth and Sujata employ poetic devices, metaphors, and structure in their use and expression of identity. Both poets use a plethora of poetic devices to convey identity. In “A Different History”, Bhatt places emphasis on the word “sin”, by repeating it almost four times within the scope of 7 lines.
Ted Hughes’ poem, Sketching a Thatcher is a densely metaphorical text, loaded with figurative language. Its meaning is therefore often not immediately accessible and requires a deeper look from a reader in order to decipher the text. A more thorough analysis of the metaphoric constructions allows us to unlock its meaning and understand the essence of the ‘sketch’ that Hughes presents with this poem, enriching his portrait of an aged roof-thatcher and imbuing it with the quintessentially sketch-like quality that the title of the poem suggests. Deconstructing the imagery in terms of arguments, focal expressions and the tenor-vehicle constructions of the figurative language scattered through the text and evaluating the relationships between local and global metaphors of the poem allows a reader to connect the images into a coherent and more accessible pattern. In this essay, we will analyse a few of the local metaphors that form part of the central tenets of the poem and look at the ways in which they interact with each other as part of the global metaphor of the poem.