Nicholas Photadthong 301119427 English D102W 10:30 Tutorial Poem: Dover Beach – Matthew Arnold Topic: Discuss the situation and setting of “Dover Beach.” Pg. 59 Dover Beach Reminisce In "Dover Beach," poet Matthew Arnold sets his poem in Dover Beach that correlates with the title of the poem. The speaker uses figurative language to set the mood of the poem. This allows the reader to comprehend what is going through the poet’s head as he is observing nature at in it entirety. "Dover Beach" illustrates how figurative language is a useful device to determine the setting and situation, literally and figuratively, in which the speaker is located.
In war, once a soldier is dead it does not matter which side he or she has fought for. This is represented in Kenneth Slessor’s poem ‘Beach Burial’ where Slessor establishes a sombre tone through using images in the poem, which form an anonymity of the soldiers. By doing this Slessor shows that he is sympathetic. Beach Burial is a harrowing elegy about loss of life through war. The rhythm of the poem is constructed in such a way as to confront the reader, and the language used throughout the poem changes from being very soft and comforting, to blunt and shocking.
I think the poet is trying to tell us that we shouldn’t worry a lot in our lives cause after bad and difficult moments there are good and happy moments in our lives. It also gives me a sense that after a life ends another one begins. In the second and third lines of this poem the poet is drawing an image for us showing the twilight is fading away on the brown sea-sands on the sea-shore. These two lines are giving us a scene in an instant of time. In the fourth line of Amir Etesam this poem, the poet is talking about a traveler who is hurrying to come to a town.
Through greatness one must die to be remembered as a legend. The poem allows Death to voice that he doesn't reflect gory, but glory. Death speaks of the runner as a champion, but justifies that in life; victors fade and become meaningless in the eyes of the masses: So set, before the echoes fade, the fleet foot on the sill of shade. Death was able to set the runner free before he would face humiliation of witnessing his prestige fade
Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” is a metaphoric account of an attitude and acceptance of death. In the poem, the land, though unmentioned, is life, ocean is a representation of death, and the bar, or sandbar is the borderline between life and death. The speaker seems to hope that “which drew from out the boundless deep/ turns again home “ (Lines 7-8), which represents how he will be taken to death. The “dark” that is mentioned in Line 10 refers to the state of being after the speaker passes on, but he hopes that there will “be no sadness of farewell/ when I embark” (Lines 11-12), meaning the he hopes no one will be sad when he dies. The speaker knows that he will be taken beyond “Time and Place” (Line 13), meaning beyond life as everyone knows it, but he hopes that when he gets there, he will see his “Pilot face to face”, meaning God, the leader of his life.
The narrator is a man that is very small and meek in character. He has no real opinion only the opinion that is formulated for him by others. “And we breathed again, for another's grief/ At the Hangman's hand was our relief/ And the gallows-frame on the courthouse lawn/ By tomorrow's sun would be struck and gone/ So we gave him way, and no one spoke,” (Line 24-26). This excerpt from the poem is a prime example of how society will stand by while someone’s life is taken or they are singled out and ridiculed. The narrator and the audience in this particular poem are one in the same.
TONIGHT I CAN WRITE Lines 1–4 The theme of distance is introduced in the opening line. When the speaker informs the reader,"Tonight I can write the saddest lines," he suggests that he could not previously. We later learnthat his overwhelming sorrow over a lost lover has prevented him from writing about their relationship and its demise. The speaker's constant juxtaposition of past and present illustrate hisinability to come to terms with his present isolated state. Neruda's language here, as in the rest of the poem, is simple and to the point, suggesting the sincerity of the speaker's emotions.
There is less myth-making, the terror here, unlike Tollund Man, comes as the peaceful image of sleep is turned into a fearful picture of violent death. The Graballe Man is not passive, there is nothing ‘mild’ about the way he is described, "the chin is a visor/raised above the vent/of his slashed throat". It is here that the central point of he poem is made clear: "who will say ‘corpse’/ to his vivid cast?/ who will say ‘body’/ to his opaque repose?" This has also been seen as the turning point for the use of the bog metaphor, as the poet makes us aware of the clash between myth and reality, beauty and atrocity. These lines are a rationale for the description, but they also ask us to question the work of art the poem constructs, as the actuality of terror asserts itself: "I first saw his twisted face/ in a photograph" and the idea of sublime art is undermined
Themes Donne’s theme tells the reader that death has no right to be proud, since human beings do not die but live eternally after “one short sleep.” After a human being’s soul leaves the body and enters eternity, it lives on; only death dies. The central theme of the poem "Death be not Proud" by John Donne is the powerlessness of death. Although some people depict death as mighty and powerful, it is really a lowly slave that depends on luck, accidents, decrees, murder, disease, and war to put men to sleep. Personification Death becomes a person whom Donne addresses, using the second-person singular (implied or stated as thou, thee, and thy). Alliteration - Illustrated.
Compare how a characters voice is created in “My Last Duchess” and ONE other poem. The characters’ voices in “My Last Duchess” and “The River God” are created in very similar but also different ways. In both poems we can see that the characters are created as quite lonely in, “My Last Duchess” and “The River God”. The writer of “My last Duchess” uses euphemism to display his loneliness to the reader. “This grew; I gave commands; then all smiles stopped together.” This quote creates a sense of loneliness to the reader seeing as the speaker is saying that “all smiles stopped” implies that the person who smiled is no longer alive but now dead.