These run-on lines cause the end rhymes to be lost in the middle of the sentences. This use of caesura and enjambment create[s] a flowing feeling as Millay describes her lovers. The content of this sonnet is also untraditional as Millay boasts of having so many different lovers over the course of her life. This is certainly not the theme for a traditional sonnet which usually praises a single lover. Copyright (c) 2005, Pearson Education Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman.
The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a poem about a lady who is seemed as almost a god to the average person. The title is significant in that the story is about the Lady of Shallot and the people’s views versus her view of herself. Everyone thinks she is perfect and basically a goddess while she feels as if she is trapped and wants to escape. She is a good-hearted person but is locked away and wants to escape. Lancelot comes to save her and she gives him her heart, which broke her image as a person.
The Lady of Shalott “The Lady of Shalott” is a poem addressing the passion of a girl who longs to be known and loved. Being alive, but having no one around to notice isn’t the ideal life to live. This poem shows the eager want and need by a girl, who wants nothing more to be known by a world that is unknown to herself. The Lady of Shalott is an unknown woman on the island of Shalott. The speaker says, “Four gray walls, and four gray towers,/Overlook a space of flowers,/And the silent isle imbowers/The Lady of Shalott” (15-18) letting the reader know that the Lady of Shalott lives in a castle built of four towers on the island of Shalott.
Main ideas in War Poetry The main idea in war poetry, written during World War One – 1914-18, is the harsh reality of war. Poets such as Wilfred Owen use the language techniques of simile, rhyme, repetition and personification to help convey the main idea. Owen uses techniques to paint a grim picture of what war was like and how it affected people. Through this, we see that war is often glorified, thus Owen was able to counter the glorification of war. After reading war poems we are able to get a true idea of how horrific war was and learn of its negative consequences.
The importance and meaning of light are contrasted in these two tales, representing a change in writer's attitudes toward light portrayal. In Tennyson's poem, the woman known as The Lady of Shalott, has been placed in a tower and told if she ever looks directly onto Camelot, she will be cursed. "A curse is on her if she stay / To look down to Camelot"(lines 40-41). She relies upon a mirror to reflect to her what happens outside her tower. Light is very important to her, as without the light there can be no reflections.
This is portrayed in many of Plath’s poems through the use of graphic imagery, whether it be good or bad. In the poem “Daddy”, Plath frequently mentions Nazi Germany which creates an awful picture in the reader’s mind. The grotesque imagery used in this poem includes that of Nazis, physical stature and communication. ‘Daddy’ is a perfect example of how Sylvia Plath used her poems as a release for her emotions and how intense her feelings were. Another poem in which Plath’s style is presented is “You’re” however, unlike “Daddy”, the emotions in this poem are more optimistic and the tone of the whole poem is happier.
This leaves the reader feeling conflicting emotions for the character, probably similar to how Medusa herself feels in the poem. Form and Structure The poem is written in free verse and as it progresses, the importance of the living things Medusa turns to stone increases, going from a bee to a dragon and then to her husband himself. The poem is divided into stanzas of mainly equal length, apart from the final line: ‘Look at me now’. This gives the poem a dramatic ending, leaving the reader unsure whether to feel threatened by or feel sorry for Medusa. Language • The poem is packed full of rhyme (including half rhymes, internal rhymes and in stanzas 3, 4, 5 and 6 some end rhyme).
Nick Kernan- A.S English Lit “The collection suggests that history should be her story, how far do you agree?” The poem History is a metaphorical poem in the way it presents Women’s history through the life of a single female protagonist who is never truly noticed and is just a bystander to the greatest feats in history, which in this poem Duffy has chosen the ones that were realised by men. Anon is another poem from the collection that also shows the same themes as History in the way that the protagonist is a metaphor for a wider group, woman, and is struggling for any recognition or identity. Beautiful is also in relation to History in the way that the Woman tracked through the poem are female icons controlled by men and their ideologies, making woman want to be them and men wanting them yet not being who they seem, not having their own identity but one thought up by men for the cameras, one in particular, Marilyn Monroe. History uses a extended metaphor that the protagonist in the poem is woman’s history “she was History” the woman is shown to be “half dead”, “alone” and “smelling of pee” these descriptions could represent the way woman’s history has been portrayed through time, not being taken seriously, nothing of importance and short lived when recognised. The house ‘History’ is in is vandalised with “bricks through the window now” this could represent how the idea of woman’s history has been soiled by men over time, leaving it a worn down, trashed old derelict house with what remains of woman’s history inside.
The relationships shown in this novel show similarities to certain poems, the “Ballad of Birmingham” and “Dream Deferred” seemed to be the two poems which stood out the most. The women are forced to rely on each other when the world seems to shut them out. Despite their differences, the women of Brewster Place are bound by a sense of community and sisterhood that enables them to deal with the everyday pressures they face. One of the events that drew attention was the constant struggle of trying to be the best mother while living in these conditions. This is best exemplified in the events that had happened to Cora Lee as a child, which carried on with her through adulthood and motherhood.
As she grew old and created a life for herself, she visited the place she had longed too. Kincaid visited England. Her writing became bitter, leaving the reader feeling like she saw England to be awful. She was disappointed when she saw England for the first time. Jamaica Kincaid starts off the essay seeming pro-England, describing it as “Our source of myth and the source from which we got our sense of reality, out sense of what was meaningful, out sense of what was meaningless- and much about our own lives and much about the very idea of us headed that last list”(1).