Song for last year’s wife A) Explore how Patten conveys his thoughts and feelings about loss and relationship in ‘song for last year’s wife’ The poet conveys his thoughts and feelings through the tone. The tone is mournful and subdued. We see this in the first stanza, Patten starts the poem by mentioning the name of who the poem is directed to ‘Alice this is my first winter of waking up without you …’ we have a direct sense of sympathy here because we understand that ‘Alice’ is his wife and she is no longer with him ‘ without you’ , furthermore the use of the broad metaphor ‘winter’ gives the reader the idea that the poet has grown cold and dead since the wife left , conversely we could also say that the season is mirroring his emotions and feelings . Furthermore we also see that the poet says ‘perhaps not even conscious of our anniversary’ the tone here, makes the reader think that the poet is angry and sad at the same time which creates a contrast between the sadness that he feels at the beginning of the poem ‘First winter of waking up without you’ and the anger or disappointment that he feels because perhaps she’s not ‘Even conscious of their anniversary’ Furthermore we see that the Patten uses imagery to hint his feelings to the reader ‘the earth is still as hard’ this gives the reader an idea that he has buried her and she is no longer alive, and that’s what causing the melancholy in his narrative tone and language used in the poem, furthermore he says ‘the same empty gardens exist’ this suggest to the reader that the gardens are impersonating him and it is him that still feels empty and lost. We also see that the poem is not divided in to stanzas we could suggest that the feelings and thoughts of the poet are all over the place and he doesn’t stop thinking about her about ‘Alice’ Furthermore the port says ‘Love had not the right to walk out of me’,
Felicia Samaroo ENC 1102 June 12, 2012 Professor Higgins Finding the Hidden Message Explicate! Explicate! What does it mean? Well in a nutshell, to investigate the hidden message, to examine the details. Often poets provide their audience with hints to discover the meaning inserted in their work.
Kimberly Uzoaru Prof Bonar English 2: Presentation 3 December 2012 Sylvia Plath “Daddy,” written by Sylvia Plath is a nursery rhyme like poem with deep metaphorical meanings. Similar to Franz Kafka’s, The Metamorphosis, Sylvia Plath creates a poem that mirrors her own personal life. This biographical poem reveals the dramatic events that Plath faces in regards to her father. The poem also represents the importance of freedom. The beginning stanza begins, “you do not do, you do not do/any more, black shoe” (1-2) Plath is trapped in a shoe that belongs to her father in which she cannot live in anymore.
Hagar avoided dealing with the death of her loved ones, a divorce, moving across the country, and the disownment of her father, and remained same proud and stubborn lady that she always was, even as a small child. Where as if she were adaptable, she’d have let the tragedies and experiences erode and shape her into a better person. The first incident that really showed Hagar’s inability to adjust to things that happen in life, would be in the death of her brother, Dan. They were ice skating in the winter when Dan fell through. Hagar and her other brother, Matt, carried him back to their house across town, soaking wet, in 40 below weather.
Family, the home of all social evil, a charitable establishment for all comfortable women, an anchorage for bread-winners, and a hell for children!" Bergman , too betrayed similar opinions about the family. The earliest of his prose works to have survived – written at the age of twenty and never published – bears the ironic title Family Idyll and is a young person's coming-to-terms with the falsity of his own childhood. (The piece formed much of the basis for his first screenplay, Torment). Bergman returned in film after film to variants on the family theme.
Another sentence ‘certainly I never had you as you still have me, Caroline.’ proved that the poet was conveying the message that her daughter never belonged to her instead, she belonged to her daughter. The question ‘why does a mother need a daughter?’ was powerful because indeed, there shouldn’t be a need for a daughter if the parents aren’t going to be the ones owning their own child. As shown in stanza two, ‘heart’s needle’ signifies the heart which is delicate, fragile, life and love and the needle, so small but painful. The pain is not just an ordinary pain, the pain that comes from the needle is piercingly sharp which causes great damage to the heart. Every time the child does something wrong, the mother feels the heartache.
Browning’s use of voice portrays Lippo’s point by objectively capturing a character outside of himself. From line 191 and onwards there is a change in narrative and a rising action. This shorter passage represents an interruption to the chronology of Lippi’s life story. There is a significant change in narrative as the poem shifts to a philosophical debate about the purpose and importance of art. It consists mostly of dialogue, contrasting the prior self satisfied, hypocritical speech with Lippi’s own words.
In this paper we will try to answer one of the most controversial questions: Why should we defend literature? But in order to answer this question we need first to have a clear concept of what literature is. All throughout history there have been as many definitions of literature as scholars that have attempted to define it. Literature comes from the Latin word “litterae” that means “letters”, and this comes from the Greek “ grammatike”, that is, instruction or knowledge related to the act of writing and reading. This meaning was accepted up to the middle of the XVIII Century and it was applied to pieces of writing that belonged to different fields such as philosophy, history and religion.
A poem written in prose instead of using verse or line breaks, but preserving characteristics of a poem may is known as a “prose-poem”. Characteristics such as rhythms, figures of speech, assonance, consonance, and imagery would be in a prose poem. 2. The three types of poetry are Narrative Poetry (pg. 344), Lyric Poetry (pg.
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is the first masterpiece of modernism; it is typically a modernistic poem in form, content and in representing the modern man. This poem contains several Formal Characteristics of modernism. Firstly, the poet uses Open form and free verse . He doesn't follow a certain rhythm or rhyme scheme. The stanzas aren't organized in a certain way either.