SONG FOR LAST YEAR’S WIFE The poem ‘Song for Last year’s Wife’ is addressed to the narrator’s ex-wife. The persona is separated from his wife. His reminiscences of the lady on the day of the anniversary of their separation are evident by the phrase, ‘A year from now….’ The poet’s feeling regarding their break-up is depicted through the line ‘Love had not the right to walk out of me.’ The narrator insinuates that he has a new partner when he quotes ‘I wake up with another mouth feeding from me.’ The poet bluntly addresses his ex-wife by naming her in the premise of the poem, ‘Alice.’ Though the man is in a new relationship, he is clearly unsatisfied as highlighted by the negative words ‘hard’, ‘empty’ and ‘nothing.’ The man’s curiosity regarding the woman escalates to one point where he sends his spies as depicted in the line, ‘I sent out my spies …doing’, this reveals his obsessive, suspicious and manipulative nature and hints at one reason behind their divorce. However, the actual cause for the separation remains shrouded in mystery. The man’s obvious trust issues are portrayed in his scruples concerning his wife’s fidelity.
Explore how the writer presents his relationships with his grandfathers in ‘Lines to my Grandfathers’ Use evidence from the poem to support you answers (15 Marks) The writer presents the relationships between himself and his grandparents in ‘Lines to my grandfather’ by using emotive language and verbs. It is evident though out the poem as to the feeling the poet has towards his grandfathers. These relationships are presented via memories of both relatives that live on in his current life through associated objects. The writer uses emotive language to create a distinction of feelings for both of his grandfathers in this poem. He talks about his grandfather Harrison with some dislike “he, while grandma slaved to tend the vat, graced the rival bars”.
Erickson's Stages of Psychosocial Development In the movie Ordinary People, the character Conrad shows signs of having missed a stage in Erickson’s stages of psychosocial development. The relationship that Conrad and his mother have is very unusually and could explain a lot of why Conrad puts so much of the guilt of his brother’s death on himself. It’s possible that when Conrad was a little boy his mother spent more time with his older brother and didn’t really pay much attention to him or certain tasks that he accomplished. This stage would be Initiative vs. Guilt.
His last line emphasises this regret but also acceptance that his son has to go through life feeling sharp wounds.He wants to protect his son, it shows the connection and bound between father and son and the closeness of their relationship. Scannell lost 2 sons and this may be inspiration for this poem. He couldn’t protect his own children from the harshness of the world. The poem uses time phrases a lot; ‘last, ‘and then’, ‘in two weeks’, ‘would often feel’; this adds a narrative feel to the poem. Another feature that adds to the narrative feel is the way the poem is written in the first person.
Session 1: My first session with Hamlet was a troubling one; he came to me with many concerns. Just two months ago, his father died. Now, his mother, Gertrude, is remarrying to his uncle, Claudius. When asked how he feels about the marriage of his mother and uncle, and how he is dealing with the grief from the loss of his father, Hamlet responded with, “Not so… I am i’ the sun.” (1.2.71) His sarcastic remark denotes feelings of betrayal by his mother and uncle who are so readily able to replace his father. This remark also implies that that he is still mourning the loss of his father and is not yet ready to move on.
Alexandra Brazelton English 1010 Instructor Young 16 February 2012 Final Draft, Shooting Stars Among Us When my boyfriend, Daniel, is oversees fighting for his country, I sometimes, worry about him coming back dead or alive. The problem that I feel is that he is gone for so many months away from me. In the essay “Sons and Mothers,” by Susan Moon, the author writes about how her son went to college and how hard it was to let him go. In Susan Moon’s essay, she had two goodbyes; I also had two goodbyes. Susan Moon’s first goodbye with her son was a short minute.
As a class, we read about two situations. One situation was about a young girl who had realized how ashamed and how negative the affect of her father’s failure was to her. Another situation was about a boy who grows up and eventually had to choose between leaving his family and studying just like all of his siblings or staying and helping the family. Both of the stories showed the fatherhood each of the fathers had or lacked. The first story is called “Wing’s Chips” by Mavis Gallant and the second story is “The Boat” by Alistair MacLeod.
The boys mother finally enters the poem, with her face frowned, most likely due to the mess they had created. If this were a poem about abuse, normally a mother’s love and willingness to protect her child would have intervened and stopped the abuse. Safely assuming that this is an autobiographical poem and that Roethke is reminiscing about his father, when stating “The hand that held my wrist/ Was battered on one knuckle” (Roethke 10), could be over-read or misinterpreted if the reader is ignorant of Roethke’s relationship with his father. Reothke’s
Azucena Tapia Ap literature 4B Ms.Joseph January 24, 2013 “Daddy” Analysis In the poem ,“Daddy”, the poet uses a copious amount of techniques to convey her attitude towards her father. Plath writes about her father and how she feels bitter and sardonic towards him. The poet’s effective use of syntax and diction in this poem describes her feelings towards her father. Symbolism and metaphors are also used to portray her father’s actions and beliefs. Throughout the poem, “Daddy”, Plath uses metaphor to explicate her irate and sardonic attitude towards her late father.
Line 3 is symbolic of the persona holding onto his father’s memory and not wanting to let go of the short time they spent together. Therefore, instead of letting go of his fathers memory, he puts a positive spin on the negative situation comparing the beating to waltzing. The tone in stanza two is somewhat resentful from his mothers point of view. This is because they’re rough housing caused her pans to slide from off of the kitchen shelf. It can be inferred from the last two lines in the stanza that the personas mother was displeased and concerned only with her pots and pans.