“Compare the ways in which Larkin and Abse write about time and it’s passing.” In your response, you must include detailed critical discussion of Love Songs In Age and one other poem by Larkin. Many poems in Philip Larkin’s ‘The Whitsun Weddings’ are connected through one common factor: Larkin’s rather dismal attitude towards time and the passing of it. In many of his poems Larkin presents time as a menial entity resulting in an inevitable mortality. However, on further examination Larkin reflects back on time in a nostalgic manner. In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry.
As in Huck’s life with people they are always there, but it does not mean that they are always good for him. Many well-known scholars of Mark Twain era and beyond have picked apart his novel for its hidden meanings of life’s situations. An influential twentieth century figure was Professor Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S. Eliot), well known for his poetry and the literary movement known as modernism. His interpretation of the Mississippi river and the ending of the novel resonated with me.
Firstly, Donne's poetry is highly distinctive and individual, adopting a multitude of images. The poem offers elaborate parallels between apparently dissimilar things, “Then as th’ earth’s inward narrow crooked lanes, Do purge sea water’s fretful salt away,” (Donne, Lines 6-7) Donne's poem expresses a wide variety of emotions and attitudes, as if Donne himself were trying to define his experience of love through his poetry. Although, “The Triple Fool” gives a limited view of Donne’s attitude towards love, Donne treats the poem as a part of experience, giving insight into the complex range of experiences concerning love and grief, “I thought, if I could draw my pains through rhyme's vexation, I should them allay.” (Donne, Lines 8-9) Overall, the imagery in “The Triple Fool,” contributes to Donne’s sorrowful diction of love and grief. Moreover, Donne explains that poetry is for love and grief, and not for pleasing things, but songs make love and grief even worse. The first verse of the poem states that he is two times a fool, a fool for loving, and a fool for admitting it, “I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.” (Donne, Lines 1-3) Donne follows to say that he would still not be wise, even if “she” (Donne, Line 5) returned his love.
This poem, like most of his poems, revolves around a common object or event. But these objects and events are not only what they appear to be, they also have a deeper meaning, they are metaphors for larger issues and themes. By obscuring his theme and working so covertly in metaphor, the reader is forced to come to their own conclusions about the work. This is exactly what Frost is trying to accomplish, through metaphor he strives to make the reader think about his poem, what it means and what he is trying to say. Robert Frost the most famous American poet of the last century was born in San Francisco in 1874.
Throughout the poem, the speaker discusses things about nature and death that gives off a depressing or gloomy mood to the poem. The speaker begins to set the mood and says, “Her early leaf’s a flower./But only so an hour (3-4). Frost’s poem is in no way a happy poem. It has a strong message but it leaves people feeling depressed and fearing death. Making the mood of the poem depressing, Frost is able to get his point across that eventually everything will die.
“Foulcher’s world is caught in clear images that catch our attention but are not always pleasant. The conflict is expressed in the paradox of the title of his poetry anthology – Light pressure.” Foulcher uses imagery and other language features to shape the reader’s response to his poetry.. Imagery used in his poetry is not always pleasant. This is shown in Bradman’s Last Innings, Kangaroo’s near Hay and For the Fire. For the Fire and Kangaroos near Hay show very similar themes: the violence of nature, death, appearance versus reality, while Bradman’s Last Innings largely proposes a contrast to the other two poems.
However, whilst it can be argued that the narrator’s dislike for the “sloven season” is as a result of the affect it has on her mentally, it can also be interpreted to affect her heart, as it is in reference to her “lover” who is “unbalancing the air”. It is suggested that love makes the narrator feel uncomfortable due to her not having full control. The fear of a particular time of day/year is also shown in Hughes’ ‘Wind’ in which night is shown to evoke fear. The narrator describes the woods to be “crashing through the darkness”. The use of onomatopoeia creates shock and fear within the narrator due to the harsh effects the wind is having on the “woods”; this is also evident through the use of “booming”.
Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates in his written works of “Lenore”, “Annabel Lee”, and “To Helen” an element that seemingly attempts to give the reader exceptional emotional sadness. Poe does this by telling the poem in a point of view where a man tells the story of the death or remembrance of a young love or woman. He also puts a sense of gloom in each of his poems. This allows for the reader to create a mental image if the setting, without him having to directly point it out. As well, the gloominess of his poetry could also be due to his longing effect of sadness that he attempts to express.
That the marriage turned out so disastrously and ended so quickly (they divorced in 1930) probably adversely affected Cullen, who remarried in 1940. In 1929, Cullen published The Black Christ and Other Poems to less than his accustomed glowing reviews. He was bitterly disappointed that The Black Christ, his longest and in many respects most complicated poem, was considered by most critics and reviewers to be his weakest and least distinguished.
Poetry and drama have a few key features that emphasize their per formative nature. One is the use of rhyme, rhythm, meter, alliteration, and other types of sound symbolism. For example, in Gwendolyn Brooks' "We real cool", the poet uses a strong rhyme scheme, a consistent meter, and an almost sing-song tone to demonstrate the lack of education of the narrator and his or her youthfulness. It also emphasizes the last line "We die soon.". Another is in "unity of action".