He reflects back on the characters he impersonated at a younger age, such as a magician. However, in direct contrast the first stanza describes turning ten as an illness which not only affects the body of a person, but also their spirit and soul. This contrast emphasizes his unhappiness with the present and the prospect of his future. His depression is further reinforced in the line “this is the beginning of sadness”. The author uses lengthy words such as “complexity” and “disfiguring” to show the slowing rhythm of the poem as he describes turning ten.
In his essay he compares himself to an old beggar that moves so slowly, you can only tell he has made progress by the foot prints that follow him. This is the second occurrence in his essay that clearly shows his inclination of how he sees himself compared to his students. It also ironic that he uses Wordsworth’s [a man that went on walking tours of Revolutionary France and had an affair to bear an illegitimate child and in a way represents a version of his students that he is so concerned about] poetry to describe himself. How can this be true though? Yes Mr. Edmundson has years of observations under his belt as a Professor at the college level, but how does this make him an authority in judging on the behavioral patterns of today’s youth.
In the next written assignment, I will adventure into the school life of Holden, and how the events in his family affected what he saw in school, and how he saw the world. In a quick view we see Holden pick up and tart read The Outsiders after a day of trying to contact his older brother, and it seems that the failure of this will bring the day to a low point that will continue throughout other activities, but its until he read the book that the melancholy passes over him regarding the situation between the three brothers, same as his own sibling. We see here a different side of Holden that we don’t see in the "Catcher in the Rye" until almost the very end of the book. I think if it had been added in the book, a scene with nature of this, the
Some of his answers were mature, but when it got to sexuality he started to become shy and wanted to impress me as a man. He wanted to take on all the responsibilities and not tell his parents if anything had ever happened. I then started to ask Michah about his relationship with his family. He was from a family of 4, his Dad, Mom, and a sister. His sister is 10 years old.
The boy relates his feelings to death and how he feels lost, even though he is not dying. The feeling of heartbreak for the first time can feel as though it is the end of the world, and this is how the young couple are feeling. They have extremely different points of view than the speaker. The speaker in the poem is an old man who does not understand why the young couple are mourning over their relationship. He also wishes he were younger and relates his thoughts about death to the actual meaning, not relationships.
Our narrator’s youth is confirmed again when he claims that he “always felt like crying [because] It wasn't fair” (line 22) the berries where rotting. Social standards suggest that a mature person has accepted that life is unfair and would just ignore something as trivial as this, while an immature child on the other hand might cry over it. That said, it is the very word “always” in line 22 that implies how the narrator is beginning to mature. Because the narrator knows that the berries will ‘always’ rot every year we can assume he has a basic idea of the cycle
I find this idea interesting because it makes the reader think about what they were like when they turned ten or what they might feel when they are going to turn ten. The poet creates the image of a really scared young boy who is terrified of getting older. Collins presents the idea of a boy who feels sick of the idea of turning ten. The use of the simile, ‘The whole idea of it makes me feel like I’m coming down with something’ to show that he is consistently feeling sick about turning ten. The poet also lists childhood diseases, ‘Mumps’, ‘Measles’ and ‘Chicken pox’ to show how he is feeling really sick.
Enjambment makes the poem storylike and colloquial The Buzz Saw – repetition of ‘snarled and rattled’ keeps going back to the buzz saw, tension as we don’t know what’s gonna happen. Hints at tragedy to follow, ‘and nothing happened: day was ALL BUT DONE’, almost safe, almost averted from tragedy. Personification of saw, aggressive and menacing, AURAL IMAGERY, onomatopoeia makes tenser as we can visualise situation. 30 Minutes Before, seems to blame adults to a certain extent for not preventing the accident earlier on, expresses regret, ‘day was all but done’, wistful tone, builds tension as we now know that something will happen to the boy,
Choose a poem which describes an animal or a place or an event in an effective way. Briefly state what is being described and go on to show how the techniques used in the poem make the description effective. A poem that describes an event in an effective way is ‘Mid-Term Break’ by Seamus Heaney. In this poem, Heaney describes a personal tragedy that he encountered when he was a young boy. He was sent home from his boarding school and when he returns home he is greeted with strangers saying they were sorry for his trouble.
Blake writes of the demoralization of children in his poems who have the unhappy job of cleaning up after others. He provides his sad & pitying commentary on a thankless job. He writes the poem from the point of view of a child, pulling the reader in & making him empathize with the children. The child narration is furthered through song and rhyming. In Blake’s 1789 poem, the persona begins by stating that his mother died when he was young & that his father sold him before he could properly protest his future uncivilized job of sweeping chimneys.