Compare how poets use language to present feelings in “The Manhunt” and one other poem (Nettles) In ‘Manhunt’, Simon Armitage uses rhyme to reflect the togetherness of a relationship. He says “After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days.” As the poem goes on, the reader can start to recognise that the un-rhymed cuplets show how fragmented their relationship has become. In ‘Nettles’ Vernon Scannell uses elements of nature, the nettles, to portray his keen anger towards the pain his son is going through. At the beginning of the poem, Scannell uses soft ‘s’ sounds to emphasise the soothing of his injured son who has fallen in a nettle bed. The child is presented using emotive language.
Jonson again tries to stop the feeling of grief by saying that his son was lucky to have missed, “no other miserie, yet age?” This suggests that Jonson is glad that his son has escaped old age. The theme of “On my first Sonne,” is very simple, a father’s grief at the death of his young son. This feeling is similar in “Mid-Term Break,” as it is of grief at a young person’s death. At the start of his poem, Heaney explores how a variety of different people dealt with this grief and then goes onto subtly hint at what he felt, whereas Jonson just talks solely about his personal experiences and feelings towards his dead son. “Mid-Term Break,” is overall more subtle in telling the reader about the poets grief.
The narrator remembers how he received the scar when he sees his dying brother stares space with his lover staring at him, “Wonder what they see there. /Remember the time he was jealous and/ opened your eyebrow with a sharp stick” (Lassell 273) and “Forgive him out loud /even if he can’t /understand you. /Realize this scar will be all that’s left of him” (Lassell 274). The narrator is telling you to realize your brother will be gone soon and the memories of the past are all you really have left. Similarly, Li-Young Lee’s “The Gift” uses symbols to convey a message to the readers as well.
Similar to how the pauses after each “We” created a resonating pause, the same can be said of the poem’s end. The writer leaves the reader with a harsh and startling attribute of the subject, which allows the sad line to echo in the reader’s mind. When read aloud, the last line sounds as if it is a premature ending to the poem, which mimics the premature ending to the lives of the young men in the gang. When reading through an anthology
The title ‘Nettles’ creates the thought of the severe stinging pain that the nettles produce that the reader will have experienced. The nettles within the poem can be taken both literally and metaphorically to represent the pain that the son will experience throughout life. In contrast, within the second poem, Larkin grants the cherished child a simple life full of ‘happiness’ and ‘not the usual stuff’. ‘Born Yesterday’ describes the normal wishes bestowed on new-borns that are overrated and that being average shouldn’t be overlooked. The title itself alludes to the idiom ‘I wasn’t born yesterday’ which compares the speaker’s intelligence beside the naïve child that literally was born few days ago.
Hardy portrays the emotions of the soldier using this dash; he shows us how a soldier may not know the true reason why he ever killed anyone, and how they must reassure themselves it was the right thing to do. Hardy also uses comparative techniques to portray emotive view of war. In the first two stanza’s he compares what would have happened if he had met the man he killed in a pup, compared to meeting him in war. “Had he and I but met, By some ancient inn” The use of conditional tense shows perhaps a bitterness in the narrators view on the actual circumstances he was in. The first stanza is very light-hearted, and happy, and the second stanza is very powerful and intimate.
All of the places mentioned are key settings for some of Shakespeare's most famous works, this shows how special Hathaway considers the couple's lovemaking. Similarly, On My first Sonne demonstrates a feeling of love but also sadness. The poem is written by Ben Jonson and is about the unfortunate and sad loss of his son. Jonson say’s “My sinne was too much hope of thee, lov’d boy”. This demonstrates the extent of love Jonson felt for his son, so much in fact that he views it as a “sinne”.
There is a shift in language as the poet removes the phrase 'my son' with the less personal article 'the boy'. Plosive alliteration is used on line 6 and the white and tender skin mentioned relates to innocence and purity. There is a suggestion that two people are involved with the other person being a partner or mum. There is a very regular rhythm to the poem and there is a sense of pain and that can't be completely taken away from the son. Metaphor is used to emphasise his devastation and up until this point, the nettles have been presented like they are an army themselves.
This poem mainly is about a young man who tells lies to his family so they would not be sad about what really was going on and what their son is doing. The other poem “We Real Cool” is about two friends that are doing things together. For example the poem “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks uses repetition but the theme
The poem is sorrowful because the speaker describes his grief of the untimely death of his love Annabel Lee. The poem is compassionate because even after the death of his beloved he still has a loyal unchanging love for her. The way Poe evokes all these different emotions through the use of rich and romantic diction, abounding symbolism, and lyrical rhythm is what really makes this poem intoxicating. The poem's romantic diction immerses the reader into the speaker's fantasy-like tale of love shared with Annabel Lee. He begins the poem with the first two lines, "It was many and many a year ago, / In a kingdom by the sea," sort of how one would begin a fairytale with “once upon a time far away”.