“My Papa’s Waltz” was composed about a young boy and his father and written in a very rhythmic form. The persona of this poem was very simple to identify with. Roethke used the term “I” throughout this piece. With the author using first person, it allowed me, as a reader, to relate to the poem how Roethke had intended his readers to relate. “The whiskey on your breath” (Clugston, My Papa’s Waltz, para.
The title of the poem “At Cider Mill Farm” provides the location of the poem. “Farm” has strong connotations with the quaint like countryside feel, along with crops, animals and tractors – all of which are associated with a traditional British farm. The first line of the poem: “I remember my uncle’s farm” immediately shows the poet is reminiscing about past experiences and the memories that accompany them. “Summer” has suggest warmth and happiness. This implies the speaker has fond, warm and happy memories of his time at his “uncle’s farm”.
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.
They want to earn enough money to fulfill their American dream. During the novel, the two friends and their fellow characters face many of the hardships dealt with during the dreadful decade that is the 1930’s. The well-known quote “The best laid schemes o’ mice and men often go astray, and leave us nothing but grief and pain for promised joy” by Robert Burns reflects into the Great Depression as well as Of Mice and Men. It means that no matter how well planned or how motivated the dreamer, it is quite often that the hopeful scheme is devastated. Thus, leaving aforementioned dreamer feeling wayment towards the lost plan.
Merit All Quiet on the Western Front was published in 1929 by the author, Erich Maria Remarque. He masterfully depicts the horrors of the war based off his own experiences in World War 1 as a young man in the German infantry. Because of this Nazi Germany took away Remarque’s citizenship in 1938. Later on, he became a citizen of Switzerland and the United States. The story is about a lost generation, as seen through the eyes of Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old boy who had enlisted in the war effort with his classmates fresh out of high school.
written by Jessie Pope, and finally contrast this with the poems by Owen. DISABLED I think that in the poem 'Disabled', Wilfred Owen is trying to convey the real tragedy of war. Many people think only of those killed but reading the poem you remember that many people who were not killed in the war could still have suffered a lot more. In the poem Owen focuses on one young man, a single victim of war. It shows the effect the war has on the young man's life, when on returning from the war he has been maimed "legless, sewn short at elbow" Owen writes the poem with style.
Once Apess reached about the age of thirteen he decided to run away from his life as an indentured laborer(Barber). In his biography he speaks of running away to join in the war of 1812. During this time Apess was not only fighting battles in the war, but he was also dealing with battling his alcoholism. The Literary Encyclopedia explains that by the time of the Second Great Awakening, Apess returns home to reunite with his family and his Pequot tribe(Gordon). Here he begins to get involved in the Methodist religion, and also attending Methodists meetings of the local Methodist group(Gordon).
Breanna Styles He Longed He Loved He Lost Soldiers Not good enough Younger crowds Not her cup of tea Light as air Lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes, Passionate mouth, ecstatic smile Lavender hat Two minutes to four Thin drops swarm like dew The ripple of her voice Hands plunged like weights, water glaring in my eyes His head rested back Awfully glad We’ve met before A terrible mistake Don’t be rude Tears of joy Sunshine in the room Beautiful shirts Can’t repeat the past Of course you can I’m going to fix everything Just the way it was before. The light of his love begins to fade His temper cracked a little An Oxford man Like hell he is She never loved you, Not good enough That’s
Receiving 17 days of leave, Paul travels to his hometown, knowing he must go see Kemmerich’s mother, “I was beside him. He died at once” (180). Paul is deliberately telling Kemmerich’s mother a blatant lie. Kemmerich died in a gruesome manner after he had his leg amputated. Kemmerich’s mother is not convinced that Paul is telling the truth, saying, “I have felt how terribly he died.
A CHRISMAS CAROL NOTES * Dickins love of wordplay is also evident at the beginning of the text. The very first line “Marley was dead to begin with”- can be read in multiple ways and is infused with subtle irony when we later realise that Marley is a ghost trapped in perpetual misery. * Dickins plays with imagery too. He uses the English winter to symbolise the iciness of scrooge’s heart and contrasts this with the warm family interiors at his nephew’s house and at the Cratchit hearth. * Immediately scrooge is contrasted with his warm and kind hearted nephew Fred who has coke to bid him Christmas tidings * Given these contrasts, we should expect a change in the imagery as Scrooge gradually warms tot eh Christmas spirit.