the poem is a narrative account, focused of the fathers perspective of an accident involving his son that brings back memories of his past. Vernon Scannell uses the nettles as a way of reflecting his military past. the nettles are personified as an opposing force. Scannell shows his anger towards the nettles by describing the nettles as a 'regiment of spite', this shows the nettles are like an army attacking the speakers son. The word 'regiment' suggests an efficient army but the word 'spite' makes it sound as if the nettles are malicious.
The Manhunt Relationship is the connection between two people. In ‘The Manhunt’ Simon Armitage explore the relationship between a wife and her husband, an injured solider who has just returned from battle. In ‘Nettles’ the poem explores the relationship between a father and his young son who has fallen into a bed of stinging nettles. Both poets explore the compassion felt by the narrator of the poem for the other person in the relationship. In ‘The Manhunt’ the narrator’s compassion is for the mental anguish which the husband is obviously suffering.
Her topic sentence is: “many outfitters will lose revenue from the cancellation of the spring bear hunt.” Yet, her conclusion is: “Groups opposing the spring bear hunt cancellation have also claimed that it infringes on the recreational rights of hunters, and that it has caused in increase in the number of nuisance bears. (38)” The concluding sentence starts a new topic itself and it digresses from the original topic sentence. The essay’s unorganized structure is
How does the writer convey strong feelings in Harmonium? In Harmonium, Armitage may have used an extended metaphor of a harmonium to possibly show a dying relationship between ‘father and son’. The ageing harmonium could represent the ageing father and the speakers wish to have it restored to its former glory. This can show the reader, that the speaker hopes to rebuild a relationship and turn back time before it is too late.. Also the fact they ‘carry’ it out, ‘laid on its back’ could suggest to the reader that the father has died as is being taken away like the harmonium. Armitage regularly refers to the harmonium as a ‘he’ supporting the fact that it could be his father.
Dyson is grieving and his memory shows us how his childhood experiences have changed him overtime and how the loss of his wife was his undoing. Back in his home town, Dyson is forced to confront his childhood demons and make peace with his past. In this story, Winton has used Tone and Metaphors to express change and feeling. Metaphors are used to compare the weather to the mood. Winton uses weather has his tool to set the scene.
He paints a picture that shows this life as a wasteland for the soul; he writes, ‘I will show you fear in a handful of dust’, portraying dust, similar to Fitzgerald, as something corrupt, creating a sense of foreboding for the society in that era. Moreover, the line, ‘April is the cruellest month’, is quite uncanny, as it is normally distinguished to be a pleasant time of year, when everything grows again. However, this could be a way of Eliot illustrating that
The plosives exaggerate his father’s death, making it seem harrowingly painful and harsh. Sporadic interjections such as “O Father!” and “villainy somewhere!” are contrasted with rhetorical questions such as “who knows?” which further indicate his mental instability, as he oscillates between crazed excitement and curiosity. The speaker reminds himself that he is “long dead, Long dead!”, the repetition accentuating his aberrant and distorted thought processes which must repeat themselves twice over. Further indication of the speaker’s madness is shown when he is waiting for Maud in the garden. The flowers are personified, with the rose crying out that “She is
Depictions of warfare and accumulated images of death in the second stanza answer the rhetorical questions in the first stanza about the origin of these creatures. “Death” has been personified to emphasise that the memories of the surviving soldiers are tainted with “sloughs of flesh” of past soldiers whose “multitudinous murders they once witnessed.” The juxtaposition of “treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter” highlight that these ‘mental cases’ were once people who had human value too. The transformation of these soldiers has been due to the effects of war as Owen continues to accumulate images of death in the battlefield through onomatopoeia of “batter of guns and shatter of flying muscles.” The third stanza underlines the significance of shock and trauma in the battlefield for soldiers as they cannot face the reality of countless casualties. The alliteration of “sunlight seems a blood-smear” conveys the image of
Some examples of his use of irony are the unintentional yet inevitable ending of the Snopes family time after time, the similarities and differences between Sarty Snopes and his father, and finally, the two distinct purposes for which Abner Snopes uses fire. Using irony and reality, Faulkner reveals the conflict within the heart of Snarty Snopes. Like most of Faulkner’s fiction, these techniques reveal the problem the modern man. Faulkner’s revolutionary
The themes of the poems ‘The Manhunt’ and Quickdraw’ are about love and heartbreak. Both ‘Quickdraw’ and ‘The Manhunt’ explore themes of relationships and mostly rejection. In both poems, emotive metaphorical language is used however there are some differences for example in ‘The Manhunt’ the form is more like a list as compared to ‘Quickdraw’ which is more like a story/narrative. Also ‘Quickdraw’ conveys damage and she wants to cause the man pain compared to ‘The Manhunt’ which conveys damage that is already done. However, ‘The Manhunt’ focuses more on explaining the damage caused to the veteran.