For example, Armitage has given multiplemeanings to many of his words. This can be seen in the poem where it says, Imholding out. This suggests that the beggar is holding out his hands for spare change.This quote also suggests that hes got no choice and that he hand been waiting for along time.On the contrary, Armitage has also used a variety of techniques such as similes andmetaphors in The Clown Punk. In the poem it states, still daubed with the sadtattoos of high punk. The use of the adjective sad suggests that he is trapped in anuncomfortable nature.
Simon Armitage uses pets as companions to emphasise the clown's loneliness. The use of the word 'towing' in reference to the dog gives the impression that the dog is unwilling to accompany the clown ,as towing is associated with dragging something along. The the clown's shambolic imagery is used to envoke a smile from the reader, but with the gentle instruction 'don't laugh' by the speaker we feel instantly saddened by the Clown Punk and sympathise with him.Similarly to this 'The Hunchback In The Park' portrays a helpless character we immediately feel sorry for. Both the Hunchback and The clown punk represent isolated individuals in a society that perfers the normal over the abnormal. Both poems keep a certain anonymity with their central characters by not addressing them by their names, but using their physicalities 'clown punk' this shows that they are unknown in society but still judged ,giving a sense of being looked down on, which creates a heirarchy in the poems.
So this then makes us think of the clown punk of being poor, subsequently giving us a picture of the clown punk being in old clothes, non shaven face and long hair. I think it is important that Armitage has decided to put this in his first line because this then gives us an image to think of during the poem Another way is in the third line when Armitage says, “Like a basket of washing that got up And walked,” This line reinforces my first point because you imagine washing as being crumpled up and scruffy so you can see the clown punk in creased possibly dirty clothes. Also it gives us the idea that the clown punk has just picked up any old clothes and thrown them on. I think the clown punk could be isolated and has no friends, because of when he says “like a basket of washing that got up” and also when he says “towing a dog on a rope” here this presents him being lonely. This also makes us feel sorry for him.
Its as though he has no purpose in life anymore and so spends his time wandering. Maybe Armitage is trying to portray the hopelessness of the man without direction as a direct resilt of the 1970s punk movement and its lack to actually change anything within society. All that is left of this for the central character is ‘the sad tatoos of high punk’. Both poets use their central characters to communicate their ideas about society and how once an individual no longer fits in, or has served their purpose they are cast out, mocked ‘hunchbacked in mockery’ or shield away from, you kids in the back seat who wince and scream. In both poems the poets Armitage and Thomas have created their central character predominantly through their use of language.
This also could be used to describe to describe his view on life seeing that he thought people were “boring” if they were just like everyone else and cared about the little details. The author also uses italics to emphasize words like in this sentence: “I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them”. Just as the Salinger used italics for the same purpose, to show how Holden only cared about the main idea, which in this case was his unrealistic role as the “Catcher in the Rye”. Holden seemed to try to get the point of what he was trying to tell his sister while she kept on correcting him. Another strategy used by the author to effectively
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,
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George stated at the beginning that Lennie always gets into troubles. “You do bad things and I go to get you out,” (Steinbeck, 11). When Lennie held Curley's wife tighter and tighter we all knew whats going to happen because first he killed a mouse and he thought he will not do the same thing with a puppy. John Steinbeck used his creativity use of foreshadowing to make the book more enjoyable to read. Lennie seems to be very strong, but in reality he is the weakest character in the novel “Of Mice And Men”, because of the lack of his mentality ability and the missing characteristic to think for himself and make his own decisions.
Education for leisure presents a dramatic monologue which is written in a voice of teenager who is isolated individual that commits violent deeds against little innocent pets due do boredom. “An ordinary day” the poet condemns the usefulness of education but attaching the “leisurely” behaviour of the speaker to the education system of Britain. Whereas in shooting stars Duffy portrays the life of the world it as short blast of passion which can come to an end. The poem is written in the first person to emphasise the narrator’s feelings, this creates an intimate relationship between the poet and the reader to increase the emotive effect. The title reinforces that any death no matter how small it is still heroic.
The aspect of the ‘mockingbird’ in the text occurs frequently. The topic of a mockingbird symbolizes the distorted lives of Boo Radley and Tom Robinson and there lives make the readers lose a piece of innocence through their perspectives. The children are warned that it is a “sin to kill a mockingbird because all it does is sing”. Tom Robinson is an example of a gentle person who has done no harm and only tried to help others however his life is made a mockery from the town’s people and this realization for us makes us loos the innocence we have before reading this. Additionally, Boo Radley has a distorted version of what might have been a normal life but because of his background and individual circumstances such as the knowledge that “he lives with his brother, and Miss Stephanie claims that she saw Boo Radley stab